Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22
THE ROBBERS TRAIL.
i Complete and Connected Account or thc Gage and Bisbee Train
 Robbers
From tbe Time They Lefi Clifton mp to
 the Date of Their Capture.

, relates to the robbery of the tram, th'
 main facts, about vino constituted tho
 party. the number directly engaged IT
 the robbery and the course they toos
 after the deed was committed are in the
 main correct. Thursday, November | 22nd. at about o'clock the coach arriv- l ing from Sol0monville brought large number ot passengers returning to | Clifton from attendance at court. As each passenger stepped from the coach he was closely scrutinized by
 GANG OF RUsTLERs,
 | We'll known ID Clifton. It was the gen. orally expressed opinion of the passeng- CTS that the gang were looking for some persons who had made themselves ob- noxious to them, but not discovering their intended victim or vic-Im they mounted their horses and rode off in Q southeriy direction toward Duncan. The men who comprised this gang were five in number, and their names Gs follows: Dan Dowd alias Big Dan," O. w.. Sample alias "Red," John C. Kelly alias "Yorkie,'' -Willls alias "Iex," and John Heath. It ls known by the officers n Clifton that this crowd was joined by ct least two others a short distance from Sheldon, and that W. F. Delaney was one of them. IL is thought that Doe" Baker vas the other.
 STATEMENT MADE BY 'RED"
 To W. W. Bush, in Clifton, Wednesday morning. December l2th. Bush is the night bar keeper at Geo. Hills saloon, and is well acquuinted with all the mem bers Of the gang. On the night men tiOned Bush was stopping at Maud Elhy's on Main street. He was aroused from hls slumbers by hearing the tramp of horses in the rear of the house, and by tap upon the window. \ woman went to the window and asked "WhO's therel' The answer was "Redi let me iu.' The midnight intruder, upon re- peatiug his demand for admission said he deslred Co see Bush, that he had been Co the saloon and that the man on watch had informed him that Bush was at Mauds. Bush bid the woman to open the door. when "Red" and "Tex" entered Ihe former went to the room where Busl waa, and after Q salutatIon, Brsh asked, "WhI- are you doing here. and where have yOu been?" He re- piled "Bispee." Bush asked hlm, Do y0u know what ylu did ID Bisbee, Red?" He replied, CT rIICsE WE ,IU-r HAVE KILLED SOME
 ONE"
 One man came running towards us; l told him C turn back; he replied, 'I am an officer and ls be continued to ad- vance l shot him" Bush then said, Red. you boys are reported to have killed three men and one woman in Bis bee. IT you had robbed the town with out killing anyone it would have been bad enOngh; ls Il stands we will part now and hereafter be strangers" Red" sand they got SSJ1 in money, and some watches, he showing a handsome gold watch in his possession. In answer 10 other questions Red" sad
 "JoHSSIE HEATH PUT UP THE JOB, And opened a dance hall iD Bisbee as a guy. Alter leaving the town the gang kept together for a distance of nine miles, when Delaney and Dan Dowd Ge- cidsd to go to Sonora. Thirty miles this side of Bisbee they had Q friend, a rancler, who furnished them with fresh horea. He did not state where they won't after leaving the friendly ranch, but as "Red" has bullet hole in the back Of his overcoat and says he got slight wound in the back, there is little doubt but that they went direct 10 the Chiricahua mountains, where the posse under Deputy '. 5. Sanders attacked them as reported in Tucson and Tomb stone pupers. Presumably after leaving the Chiricahuas, Red and "rex" de- cided
 TO COME TO CLIFTON.
 Kelly alias 'Yorllie,7 said the conn try was getting too warm for him, aud eft the other near San Simon, to get aboard an east bound train with the intention of returning to Texas. "Red" further added that himself and Tex" were going to Happy Jacks about 5 miles above Clifton, where they would get crowd together, when they would return he-e and serve Clifton the same as they had Bisbee; he said there were two places here they desired to clean out. He complained that his wound troubled him.
 DEPUTY SHERIFF JOHN HOyEY
 Was peacefully sleeping. No thought of rustlers or midnight assassins disturbed his sweet slumbsrs. He was awakened and the tale which but a few minutes previously had been communicated to Bush by the fleeing outlaw was i'm parted to him. Deputy Sheriff Hill was allo summoned, and consultation held. It was decided 70 temporarily await de- vel0pmeuts, as. to g certainty, the nd- mercal strength of the bandits was not known. As soon gs the telegraph office was opened in -he morning dispatches were sent to officers in Lordsburg and Deuiug to be on the lookout for Kelley, and to Tombstone to hold Heath. Preparations were immediately begun in @ systematlc manner to pursue and capture tle mU-derers. In answer Co a dispatch sent from here to the sheriff of | Cachise county stG.ei that reward of | S7,5)0 would he pail for the capture, dead or alive of the whole number of Bisbee murderarF, with proof Of their complicity, and for each single indiyid- Un. offender 90 propOrtionate amount The deputy sheriti5 communicated with
 NICHOLAS oLGUN,
 And found him ready for duty with hIs posse of thirteen men. Friday morning, | all Preparations having been completed l for e search Co last an indefinite length | Of time, the posse, numbering all told, | nineteen men, including Deputy Sher- ifs John Hovey and A. G. Hill, Henry Hill, George Bent, ". W. Bush and the ! Olguin party, took their departure for | the north. There was q look of deter | imitation on the face of each man. They | expected. knowing the desperate char | acter Of the men they were after, des- | perate resistance, and they went pre- pared for it. Having pack animals | along, their progress was necessarily | slow, their camp at
 | THE END OF THE FIRST DAY
 Being at a point where the Blue and San | Francisco rivers unite. The following day Saturday. they continued up the Blue, following a plain trail of three | horses, which they were confident was the trail of the men they were seeking. Coming to
 BENToN's RANCH
 Ten miles up the Blue, the deputies notified the men they found there that
 they would be obliged to accompany
 the posse, as they did not propose to
 leave anyone behind them to carry
 tidIngs by cirouitous route to the out
 lawl of their approach. At Arnold's,
 five mI!es further up, they repeated
 their demand to the men found there to
 accocpany them, and the parties at
 both ranches readily consented A halt
 was made near Arnold's and lOokouts
 with tieliglasses sent to the tops of
 aiiacent mountains, with instructions
 to view the surrounding country and
 report the approach of any person
 But a short space of time had elapsed
 when a signal was given that