Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-28
His Statement as to How it
Occurred.
General GriersOn Thinks the Murder
ers We're Not Indians.
A Number of Soldiers in Search of the
Guilty Parties-Action of the
Bar Association.

killed at Rucker's canon on Saturday
last. He was accompanied by his
brother, Dr. John R. Haynes, and DR..
Walter Lindley, both of whom met him
at Cotton yesterday. On the arrival of
the train at the Arcade depot, the body
of Mr.. Hardie, which had been en-
balmed at Tombstone, was conveyed by
Messrs. Orr & Sutch, the undertakers, to
his late residence, No. 92O South Main
street, at the request of his relatives,
from which place the funeral will be
neld today. AS DR.. Haynes stepped off
the train he was met by DR.. w.
w. Beckett and HERALD reporter,
but after few words of greeting to the
former, he excused himself to the latter
on the plea that he was too much ex-
hausted by his journey to be inter-
viewed, and, joining his friends, quickly
made his way to carriage that was
in waiting and drove home. The doc
tors brother was also questioned by the
reporter, but he also had nothing to say
with regard to the unfortunate affair,
and referred the reporter to DR.. Walter
Lindley, to whom DIR. Haynes had told
the story in detail, while en- route from
Cotton to this city. DIR. Lindley was
then seen at the Hollenbeck, and told
the story of the murder in effect as fol-
lows, merely corroborating the accounts
already published through the Asso-
ciated Press dispatches.
DR.. Haynes and Mr.. Hardie had been
on visit to Mike Graves's ranch, about
sixty miles south of Tombstone, and
near the borders of Sonora, and during
the week which they remained there
had been in the habit of taking daily
rides together on horseback in the adj
jacent country. The residents in the
vicinity did not display any signs of
uneasiness, the farmers pursuing their
vocations without any apparent fear of
molestation, and there were no indica-
tions of the presence of hostile Indians;
consequently both gentlemen rode un-
armed and unsuspecting of danger. On
Saturday afternoon last they rode down
fuckers caflon, Hardie, who had an un-
loaded rifle strapped behind his saddle,
being about FIVE yards in the lead.
When about midway down the canon,
and at 8 80 o'clock, DR.. Haynes heard
volley of shots, fired apparently from
clump of pines on the left-hand side
OF the cai1on; and Mr.. Hardie fell with
a groan. DR.. Haynes jumped from his
horse and ran to his brother-in-law's as
sistance, his first idea being that Hardie
had been accidentally shot by hunter
on the side of the cai1on. On reaching
Hardie's side he found that he was dead,
rifle bullet having entered his left
breast and penetrated to the heart. He
then realized that if it had been an acci-
dent there would only have been one
shot fired and not volley, and his next
impulse was that of self-preservation.
He accordingly jumped upon his horse,
but the animal was at that instant shot
from under him and other shots were
fired at him. Leaving the trail, DR..
Haynes ran up the canon, travelling from
left to right in zigzag fashion to escape
from the bullets of the ambushed enemy,
but being an invalid he was unable to
proceed very far, the atmosphere at that
altitude $1,000 feet) being very rarified.
Looking backwards as he stopped for
breath, he saw an Indian in war paint
and covered with beads, which reminded
him of picture of Geronimo he had
seen in an illustrated magazine, who
was within fifty feet of him and about to
shoot at him. Fear lent new strength to
the Doctors limbs and lungs and he
Zing past his ear as he stumbled into the
brush. When the doctor again stopped
to rest he saw Hardie's pony on the trail
a short distance ahead of him, and he
ran out and caught it. He then
galloped to Graves's ranch. and informed
his friends of Hardie's death. Three
men accompanied him back to the cafion
after dark, and found the body of Har-
die lying just where he fell. 1t was not
mutilated in any manner, but the dead
mans watch and pocket-book were miss
ing, as was also his cartridge belt. The
corpse was carried back to the ranch,
and conveyed in wagon to Tombstone,
the party reaching that place on Sunday
night. An inquest was held, and the
body embalmed and placed in casket
and shipped to this city, DR.. Haynes
leaving Tombstone at p. IN. on Mon
day. He expressed himself as deeply
grateful for the kindness extended to
him by the people with whom he came
in contact in Arizona.
General Grierson's Orders.
General Grierson was questioned yes
terday in regard to the murder of
Hardie, but he had no .later news to
offer in the matter than has already
been printed. He had been informed of
the affair from Arizona only semi
officially, and had given orders to the
five posts in the neighborhood of the
scene of the murder to beon the lookout
for the assassins and to do all in their
power to capture or, if necessary, kill
them.
In regard to the surmise that The
murderers were the same band of rene
gades that escaped from Sheriff Rey-
nolds's party after killingtthe sheriff, last
fall, General Grierson does not believe
that such is the case. In the first place
there were only eight of these Apaches
when Reynolds was killed, and three
had been shot since that time, reducing
the band to but five, whereas the party
attacking Hardie and Haynes were said
to number eight.
General Grierson seemed inclined to
doubt that the murderers were Indians
at all. He stated that that region con-
tanned number of desperadoes who
were capable of any such crime, and the
fact that the body of Hardie was not
mutilated, as is always the case when an
Apache commits murder, was strong
argument in favor of this theory.
"The public has seen ft," said the
general, "to lay the blame of the escape
OF these Indians ON the army. AS a