Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-06
SCOOPED.
Sheriff Paul's Vigorous Hunt and q
 Glorious Success.
A Resume or the Whole An.air-DetaiIs of the Killing of f.ensley and Red
 Jack-The Grand Finale.

damnlng inception and execution to th,
 retributlon that came so swiftly anC
 surely upon the participants in one oi
 the darkest deeds that have blackened
 the pages Of Arizona history.
 The little town of Johnsonville. in the
 Dragoon mountains, is a prosperous
 mining camp. Here, as usual, gathered
 a large lot of thieves and cutthroats.
 Where they were from IS too much of
 a question to answer. While here two
 or the worst desperadOes in the camp.
 Charles Hensley and Red Jack, whose
 other name IS variously spelled ID the
 reports as Amer, Elmer or Elmore, con
 cocted a scheme to rob the Globe stage.
 They went down the San Pedro to Len
 Redields, where their plans We're fur
 ther devlsed. They persuaded Joe Tut
 lie, an old resident, to join them. Tut
 tie had formerly been 6 justice of the
 peace at Florence. On the Sth Of last
 August they went into camp near Ev-
 ans station. On Friday evening, Au-
 gust 10, about SIX o'clock, as the Globe
 stage was on its road from Florence, at a point about five miles from Putnam's 8 station, Hensley and Futile commanded the driver to halt, and commenced firing. | Hensley fired seven shots and Futile | one. John H. Collins, the Wells, Fargo X Co.'S messenger, was instantly killed. l What aggravated matters so was that he
 was given no quarter. The express box was then robbed of S2,0O0. The silver was cached. The gold, a small amount, was lost out of the robbers pockets in their run. Collins was buried the next | day at Florence. Red Jack was not at ! the robbery. The robbers went to Red fields, on the San Pedro river.
 The following rewards were offered Final county, S200; Governor Tritle, Sl,OOO; Wells, Fargo (standingl $500
 Total, Sl ,jOO apiece, or Q grand total of $500 for the four.
 On Friday, August IT, Sheriff Doran and posse brought into Florence Joe futile. Frank Carpenter and Len Red field.
 On August 25, Sheriff Paul, with ex. Sheriff Peter Gabriel and George II. Davis, the Wells Fargo agent at Benson, started on a hunt Tn the Rincon noun taIns, after Red Jack and Hensley.
 On Monday the 27th, in presence of the district attorney of Pinal, Counsel lors c. C. Stephens, Thomas Weedin and several others. Futile made s confes- sion.
 On September 1st Sheriff Paul and party returned from their first hunt un- successful. They had surprised them m Sycamore canyon near Pages ranch in the RlncOn mountains, captured their effects and one horse. They had pressed them hard up North creek, where the | robbers trail was lost over the bare granite lodges.
 September lst, Sheriff Doran arrested q man at Russellville, named Hartzell, 1 charged as an accessor. Hartzel Was taken to Florence and discharged.
 October list, Peter Gabriel arrested l two men at PicachO for Elmer and Hen l sley, but turned them loose on discover ing the mistake.
 On Monday morning at 3 clock, Sep tember 3, Chief Deputy U. 5. Marshal l J. W. Evans appeared In Florence with a | posse and writ of habeas corpus to bring | the body of Len Redfield before As | snc!ate Justice PInney at Phenix. The | deputy sheriff refused to obey the writ, | and summoned a posse to resist the | uarshars posse. While the marshal | and sheriff were arguing about the | matter, the sherii7s posse hung Red | L-'I-AA fAaAAA AAAAN AAA AAAC lf.AAs AkEAAAACAh was buried here the next day, and Tut | 'le was deposited iu hIs mother earth at Florence.
 That morning Futile had made a second confession.
 September l6th Sheriff Paul started out on his second hunt for Red Jack and Hsnsley in the Rincon mountains. He was accompanied by Gabriel and George McClarty. The latter had his valuable Arkansas SlO0 bloodhound. That night they were prepared to trap the robbers at Big Springs, but Mexl- can of the posse failing to obey orders alarmed the robbers. They were trailed all the next Monday. The search lasted eleven days, and was given up. The dog was lost, and givea up for dead.
 Frank Carpenter IS stIll in the Flor ence jail.
 On last Tuesday October ? news was received of the whereabouts of the rob Ders George Martin, Wells, Fargo q Co., E agent in Tucson, immediately noti- fled Sheriff Paul, and hired a locomotive to carry the posse to Wilcox. Paul took with him Deputy Sheriff Alfredo CarnllO, T. D. Casanega and George McClarty. A quick run was made. The remainder of the story Is told in Sheriff Paul's own words:
 We went first to Rockers ranch and got there between r. and l o'clock that night. It Is 22 miles northwest from Wilcox. The next morning l sent Car rillo to Camp Grant, twelve miles dis tant, to prospect for information, and came back to the Percy brothers ranch, ten miles. There I got information that led me to believe they might come there that night. It was stormlng very hard.
 waited and did not send for the men. l took Jim Percy, John McClus- key and John Lard as a posse. Red Jack and Hensley were to come and get provisions from the wagon trains, There were two strings of wagons near Percy's house. Four wagons were m one train. Alongside was another train of four more wagons. The trains were about thirty feet apart. They were to get their provisions from the tail board of one of the wagons l put Laird and NcCluskey under one train and Percy and myself were underneath the other. It was another dark and stormy night \ little after nine o'clock Red Jack and Hensley approached the tail-bOard, and I halloed stop They started to run back and com menced shooting. The whole posse fired a volley in the dark, and the men were heard Co fall. Red Jack fell with m twenty feet of the wagon; Hepsley fell twenty-five yards from the wagons Then we kept shoot ing at theIr flashes. We shot til l told the boys to get out of the way. l was satisfied that both were mortally wound ed. Just then Laird got shot in the calf of the right leg. The bullet went right through the bootleg and made a wound two inches long. About sn hour after McCluskey and a man named Moore went around where they had left the1r horses tied to the telegraph poles. They got their horses, and were coming back, whom they hea8d Hensley gong of.
 Then I sent after the boys, Carrillo, Casanrga and McClarty. They got in carnp about 2 o'clock in the morning. We started at daylight on Hensley's trail. and followed It about eight miles. He took along the telegraph poles to- ward Wilcox three miles, and then turned of into the mountains. He struck into a canyon. and went over ridge. and down on the other sIde into another canyon, and followed 1t down about three -auarters of mile. He had followed right down in the bed. l told the boys to trail. while l kept lookout ahead. I WAS ahead on the right hand side of the canyon as we went down II. l saw Hensley's horse with br1dle and saddle on standing between us and pile of rocks. helloed to the boys to circle around on the other side of the canyon. ..,
 Casanega and McCluskey staid with me. Csrrillo, McClsrty and Otto Moore