Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-31
THREE VICTIMS.
The Bodies of the Murdered Men
 Brought to Town.
The CorOneris Inquest-Further Parricu-
 lars of Terrible Tragedy.
lPhenLx Herald.l

Judge Richards arrived with the bod les of the murdered men at 8 O deck this morning. He brought three bodies in- stead ot two, which yesterday was sup posed to be the result of the murder. The county having no morgua. .he ghsstly cOrpses were disposed on the hoor Of Jugde Richards office. where they were viewed by hundreds of horrI- fled and indignant people.
 The third man was recognized by sev- eral Vulture men as Charley DoolitsIe. & mschinist ID the employ of the com pany, who was to have sccompanied the party ss guard, though be started after them. Mir. James Hammond. a mer- chant from Vulture, at she store former ly occupied by Ed. Kirkland also recos- nized the body. It vas he who loaned his horse to Doolittle for the srip ,o Pbe- DIX. and was saddliDR his horse for him when Gribble and Johnson drove pas, in the buggy. This was some twenty minutes before Dooliiile finally started. Ills body was found nearly two hundred ysrds north ot the road, on the trail made by the murdersrs ID leaving She spot He was lying on his back with arms stretched out He had received
 
 through his laft temple.
 Gnoole when found WAS lying on bis right side. with legs drawn up and lefE arm over hIs lace. He was terribly man gied with bullets having several shots through his legs and back, and one ter rlole wound on the right side of his throat which passed through bis head disgonaliy, coming out behind hIs Ieft ear making hideous wound at it's exit This was no doubt a finishing shot, for it must have been fired when the un- fortunate victim lay on the ground with his head thrown back.
 As far ss can be sscertsined st present. there were only three asssssins concern ed ID tue killing, as the only tracks lead ing from the scene are Of live horses. One of these vas the one led by the Gribble buggy, one was the Hapmopd horse, ridden by Doolittle, and the other three were those of the sssassins: one of the latter was barefoot; all the re.. were shod.
 In the pockets of Gribbls and John- son two small pocket knives were found and DOOllttle's silver watch vas un- touched. Also several letters which bad been gwen him to deliver m Phepix.
 The uninjured buggy horse was left hI.ched to ihe ousgS and was taken back to Vulture by Jim Ferguson who passed yesterday. on bis way to that camp.
 The posse, consisting of Frank Cor, Tom Davenport. and Geo. Wilder, were met by Judge Richards ss hs vas re- urning from the scene, and they DO ioubt followed the trail which led north rom the rpsd towards the White Pichsc 
 Mir. Gribble was armed with Win- chester. 6 double bsrreled shot gun aud ! six-shooter when he left Ynlture, and he attacking party left the shot gua snd revolver. taking the Winchester with hem. One barrel of the shot zun had been discharged, showing that Mr iri5ble must have shown fight when irst attacked. Johnsoa's pisssl v.s sIso ,one and it Is known that he always .srried one.
 The examination of the bodies of tba hree murdered men at ths coroney's inquest. showed that both 0ribble and )oolittle had four bullet wounds ia he ,ody and one through she head. vhiIs Johnson received only one shot. rang ng from the stomach upwards toward he centre of the back, Hs vss sysSsstly het while on the gfeand.