Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-09
ARIZONA.
rho Latest Apache Murder.

TOMBSTONE February Sth-On Thursday
last j. Whitzel, who, in partnership with an.
other man whose name your reporter is unable
to learn, have wood camp at the western
side of the Dragons, left Tombstone with
four horse team to bring in a load of wood.
He reached camp and put on load of wood
Thursday evening, and started to return on
Friday morning, since which time nothing
has been heard from him. On Friday the
wagon was seen by a man who was going out
to Willow Springs, eight miles northeast OF
Tombstone, and who reported to the camp
that Whitzel had broken down and had prob
ably gone into town for another wagon, so
nothing was thought of it at the mounts AS
Messrs. Armstrong and Young supposed that
he had remained at the wood camp, his nom
appearance did not seem strange to them. The
fist intimation they had that anything was
wrong was yesterday morning, when man
brought the news that he was not in the
camp. and his wagon was on the road, the har.
ness lying near by, evidently cut off the team.
On this Information the above firm immedi.
ately sent out two men-Maynard and Spence
who returned last night. They pnfirmed
the previous report, and also found WhitZers
memorandum book, which had been cut open.
They found traces Of blood upon the rocks
and harness. and also found moccasin tracks
around the wagon and in the gulch near by,
which bore evidence of having been u cd as
an ambush. Yesterday morning j. ii. Jack.
son and George Spaneenberg went to Willow
Springs, where the unfortunate man had been
ambushed, and were there joined by his
partner from the wood camp. After search
ing north and northeast of the wagon, the
party took the trail of the savages, which ap.
peared to be made purposely plain, and goss
direct into Cochise's stronghold, to the en-
trance of which it was followed. Those of
orr citizens who have visited this place know
that il IL all that its name implies, and as it
would have been ths hight of folly for three
men to follow the trail into such cryptic
gram of ambush, they prudently retraced
their course and nearing Willow Springs, met
a man who had found the body of Whitzel 300
yards southwest of the wagon, stripped to the
waist aud badly mutilated. He had evil
IDENTIFY been stoned to death. From the evi
dence around the wagon, probably Whitzel
bad no intimation of the presence Of the red
devils until they rose from their ambush,
frightened the team, which, making a short
turn crushed the front wheel under the load
and broke the tongue. Whitzel, who was uc-
armed, then started to ruo, and the Indians,
knowing that their victim could not escape,
resolved to kill him in such manner as to
give no alarm by a discharge of their rihes,
to save ammunition, or to make his death
more horrible. They then cut the horses out,
took the trail described above, on which trail
on Friday last-the day of the murder
twelve Indians wtrs seen by a woodchopper
close upon the western entrance OF Cochise
Pass. As the gentlemen who went out had
no means of bringing the body in, it was
tagged to keep eff the coyotes, and last even
ing a coffin was sent out for the remains.