Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-12
"OLD TEX"
Tells About the Hardie KiIIing.and How
 it was Done.
Tombstone Prospector.

l
 A. D. Whaley, better known as ''Old l Tex came in town from Fucker cafion yesterday and the Prospector took occa- sion to interview him on the killing of Hardie, knowing that he was one of the | first on the ground after the killing.
 Tex" IS pioneer of Arizona and has | been in nearly every Indian campaign which is matter of history in this terri | tory. He Was with Crook in his campaign when Crook made a reputation for him self as an Indian fighter; he was with Miles Tn his campaign against Geronimo He has in the past twenty years helped to i bury more than fifty whites who were mur- dered by Apaches. He knows an Indian 1 trail when he sees it: can tell an Indian signal fire and understands all of their tricks. In speaking of the killing of Hardie he said:-
 ''l was on the ground the morning after the killing and examined every track and found that there were three Indians pres ent at the time. They were hidden under the banks of the White river along which Dr. Haynes and Hardie were riding | The heavy rains of previous years had caused the stream to cut under the bank and Tn that immediate vicinity there was a heavy growth of scrub oak which had been thrown partially over the bed of the | river by the undermining of rushing wa ters. There were three clumps of this brush about fifteen feet apart and the trail along which the men rode was with in ten feet of these clumps of bushes at this point. 1 examined closely the ground along the creek and saw plainly enough the evidences of the exact locality of the murderers. Under each one of these three hiding places was an Indian. Their moccasin tracks and the print of their knees in the moist earth could not be mistaken and the trail up the bank was quite as conclusive piece of evidence as even a tenderfoot would wish for to con- vince him of their identity The first Indian did not shoot at either Hardie or Haynes and the two men passed by him and were just opposite the middle clump of bushes when the Indian furthest down the stream and almost in front of him fired the fatal shot. Hardie was riding in stopping position and the Apache had crawled to the top of the bank where could plainly be seen his position when he fired The same Indian whose tracks were under this clump of bushes was the one who followed Haynes. The tracks plainly showed that he ran to the point WIS1S uS uIGu dt 1ldy uSo WuSIl bl0 1duteT dodged into the brush and at this point he turned and went back to Hardie's body Two of these Indians were mount ed and one was on foot. The latter lasso- ed lilly belonging to the daughter of Mir. Hunsaker and rode it away, since which 1t has not been seen. The trail led down into the San Simon valley and from that place they were no doubt joined by others judging from the fact that they signal1ed from the hills with smoke just before leaving. Any man who says that Indians didn't kill Hardie doesn't know what he Is talking about. If General Miles doubts it, I can give him enough evidence to convince him and he knows me well enough to know that I know an Indian sign as quickly as anybody who ever piloted him over the southwestern 1 country