Tombstone weekly epitaph., 1882-09-02
THE KILLING OF JOHNSON
The Particular of His Death as Given
 By Nis Brother.

The Particular of His Death as Given l By Mis Brother.
 Mir. A. c. Curry, step-brother of Tom
 Johnson, whe was killed by ahe Apaches,
 near the head of the Sonora river few
 days ago, furnishes the following particu-
 lars of that sad event:
 On the morning of Monday last Mr.
 Johnson left home in Il single buggy, with
 a led horse, bound for Charleston where
 he was coming for hack. He
 forgot to take his rife and pistol with him. Upon the discovery of this fact Mir. Curry ! jumped upon horse and rode after him,
 nking both rifle and pistol. He overlook l his brother about mile and half from
 where he was found dead. Mir. Johnson
 would not take the gun, telling his brother
 to take it back with him. He took the
 pistol and drove on, MT. Curry turning
 around and going home. A short distance
 from where they parted-as It proved, for- ever-Mr. J. W. Hohstadt and another man who were coming to Tombstone with an OK team, were ploddlng along in unmo- tested security. Driving along lei. surely, unsuspecting danger, evident ly without a moments warning, he was shot through tho back, the ball coming out through the breast. Ano.her shot ranged downward, coming out near or through the groin. In his body was found lot of buskshot One of bis legs was also broken. He was stripped of his clothing and everything he had on him. They killed one of the horses and took away the other. The harness was all cut to pieces, and the buggy was run up into canyoa about three hundred yards away.
 That night about Il o'clock two Amsri. cans and an Italian came to the Janivs- richi and notified them of the finding of the buggy and wrecks of the harness. They had seen four or five Indians travelling to- ward the Cananea, but were not molested. MT. Curry said they hoped that Mir. John son had escaped on one of the horses. They immediately raised party of men to go in search of the missing man, and when on the road they met couple of Nexicans, who notified them of finding the body over little bank, just of the side of the road. They went back, or part of them, ana got the poor mans mother and stepfather and brought his body to San Pedro, where they were obliged to bury it. decomposition having too far advanced to allow of his l being brought to Charleston.
 It is more than likely that the fiends who murdered Mir. Johnson and those operating in the Santa Cruz valley are | members of the same band There has | been no late reports of their doings in the | Santa Cruz and it is more than likely that | the appearance of the soldiers on the scene | made them shit their quarters to more | cOngenisl resorts.
 A miner who returned to the city yester- | day from Sonora brings further reports of | desolation and murder The settlers in ! the northern portion of the State, near the San Pedro, are terrorized, and several | have fallen victims of Apache atrocities Willie Hohstadt, son of J. W. Hohstadt, who was recently in this city, is reported killed. He was travelling from his fathers | mine to his home, at the head of the So- | nora river, when the murderors bullet | crushed out his life. Vincent Tiora the | miner who brought this information, was on his way to the Cochise mine, in the Bauchochi district, but hearing of the atrocities committed down the valley, con- cluded to turn back. Several dead bodies | were reported found between the San Pedro and Hohstadt's ranch, and It is more than likely that the outrages have been more general than the public is aware of.