The Clifton clarion., 1889-05-22
The Robbery

! RayIDaster VI nam there l6 very uttie
 new to report. Subsequent reports
 of the affair differ very little from
 preyiofd accounts. aa
 "Cyclone Bill" after leaving here,
 was taken to Fort Thomas and there
 i'd entitled both by tho wounded
 soldiers and by a colored woman named Frankie Stratton. who claims to have passed along the road just previous to the affray and was hidden during the entire fight.
 The most sensational feature of the week, however, was the arrest of N. F. Cunningham, we'll known in Cliff ton and Graham county generally as former foreman for J. H. Hampson. It is generally believed here that, if Cunningham, was implicated ill the affair, he was one of if not the princi- pal leader. Suspicion is also directed toward two or three others well known in Clifton, and detachments are out in search of them. Last Sun day morning early squad of military passed through Clifton, but their des- tination was not made public, al- though shrewd guesscs were ventured Later in the day detachment of 30 troopers from C Co.,, 10th Cav, under command of Lieutenant Donaldson of the infantry, came into town and camped to await orders. They left at o'clock this morning for Grant.
 Following is list of the wounded soldiers who suffered in the fight:
 Sergt Brown, shot through the bow els and arm. s -. q
 Private Burgee, shot through the leg and hands
 Private Hams, shot in the arm.
 Private Wheeler, shot in the arm.
 Private Harrison, shot through the snOUlutl. Private Harrison, ambulance dri- yer, shot in the side.
 Private Williams, shot ill the legs.
 The robbers are known to have talk on due casterly course, toward the Graham mountains. R
 The Tucson Citizen of Monday notes the arrival there of Cyclone Bill and Cunningham. The negro woman who was near the scene of the robbery was also brought along as q witness and is held under surveillance by the officers. She is watched very close and no doubt the officers suspect that she knows more about the robbery and who were in it than she has yet told.
 l. is believed that at least two of the robbers were wounded during the fight.
 Tha Str2,ton woman says that from her place of conceaIment she saw man open 2 s::tchel and overhaul its contents. Pioo3 was running from his frg2r cnds and occasionally he would shake his hand as if in pain. an1 fcaiter the blood osee everything about him. She further stated that she saw them leading away mule with the body of man dangling across it's back. Her story is corrob- orated by the finding of the satchel, which contained the paymaster's vou- chers, and also by the paymasteI's clerk, Mir. Gibbons, who says ne saw the robbers leading an animal with long pack on, which he supposed to be man. As further evidence that the robbers lost some of their party, Major Wham states, in an interview with the Citizen, that when they were i'll the rear they distinctly saw three meu, one of whom was ex- posed from the waist up. He ordered one of his men to shoot him and he did, at least he seemed to fall among the rocks. These and other things leads Major Wham to believe that the robbers suffered the loss of one or two men, irrespective of any wlo may have been less severely wounded.
 The robber described as No. 1 is well-known character around Tomb stone. We believe his name is Beck. He served term in the county jail and made threats against Sheriff life, which caused the sheriff to hunt him up and order him out of town. The sheriff found him in the Crystal Palace saloon and trouble seemed imminent, but was avoided by the man taking water and leaving town next day. The descrip- ton of this man tallies precisely with