Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-12-20
AUGUST HICKEY.
Question-What is your name?

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 AUGUST HICKEY.
 Question-What is your name?
 Answer-August Hickey. My residence
 is in Cocbise county, my age is ? years,
 l was born in Missouri, my business
 here is prospector; 1 have lived here
 three years. Ihave known N. H. Robin
 son for several years, living in the same
 camp four months. Am acquainted with
 John Bridges about same time. Their
 business was COW men.
 It was last Friday morning, we, the
 three of .us, started up the canyon to
 lsok after beef that was killed by h.
 dians. Wegot there and commenced
 poisoning the beef. Robinson and
 Bridges saw one Indian. While I was
 following up fresh trail John Bridges
 hollered, Look wonder, boys" As
 looked up two shots went of from Rob
 inson and John's guns. 1 just seen the
 Indian as he went down the hIll on horse
 back. We took our horses and took them
 up the hill about fifty yards and tied
 them, and followed up the Indians on
 foot; followed up about fifty yards. Com
 ing back, going to our horses, We were
 fired upon from all sides. We took to
 the nearest shelter in the rocks. We
 were sitting there about half an hour. John Bridges came along and said: Boys, We are in hard fix. We will have to try and get out of here somehow or other" told him the only chance We had was to make a break for the horses. The boys did not want togo all at once and I told them to keep a watch and 1 would go. I was sitting along side of Bunk and got up and started for the horses when three shots were fired at me by Indians. The boys hollered to me to come back and I went back be- hind the rocks. John saw one of the Indians gun barrel shining behind the mountain and he fired three shots at it. Bunk fired one shot. There were six SIlOlS llItO Og OuI Hutu we were sitting there about two hours Bunk said to wait nutil dark, as there would be no danger. l told Bunk l wanted to make a second break for the horses. The Indians were poor shots and I wanted to get the horses and get out. But he told me not to, "for they may accidentally hit you" By that time two shots went of from large guns must have been 45 caliber-I hollered at John but he would not answer me. hollered five or six times and then I hollersd: "JOhn, why don't you answer mel" Bunk told me he thought some thing had happened to him. I told Bunk I was going to find out. The words were scarcely out of my mouth when a shot took Bunk in the side of the head. He put his hand up to his head, leaned back against the rock and was dead. I got around on the north side of the rock and drew my gun across it but could not see anything to shoot at. So jumped up with my gun in my hand and ran. While running I counted shots fired at me from different direc- tions. One shot knocked off my hat and another cut off part of my halr. I ran up hill about fifty yards, and then got down into the canyon so or a loo yards, and threw my gun behind a rock and left it, and ran up into the mountains. l found my gun the next day when re- turning. I ran about fifteen miles 3nd got into camp about o'clock.
 Bridges was about fifteen feet from ne when he was shot. When I was run hing away 1 ran right by where Bridges was ana saw him sitting with blood on his face. This was Friday the 12th. 1 only saw oneIndian, the others were hid. There must have been eight Indians. The beef was found On the 10th. The part of the entrails and the hide was taken. The beef was discover d by John Bridges on the 10th. It was COW that was killed. The first Indian | vas seen about II o'clock. l made my escape about o'clock. We went up he next day and brought the bodies l Town. There were about tifteen-Mil- | on V. Hall, Amos K Potter. Emmett | Hansen, Phil Potter, Bill Hil&red and l others. I was going up the canyon the | lext day aftsr the bodies. When We | ,ot close to the place where the shoot | ng occurred We sesn where the Indians | lad followed me down the canyon. They | lad followed me about half mile. After | ve had the bodies packed up, we took |
 different trail back, going down to the | main canyon of the Guadalupe. Before | Te got to the canyon we saw fresh tracks | f the Indians, looking as if they had ! ,eeD made that morning, going south ID the hill. According to indications the indians had been camping for a month r more at that place. I told Lieutenant )lark about this when he was there. Ne found a moccasin track around the 'eef 12 to If inches long. The place lhere the killing took place is about ) miles north from the monument as he corner of Chihuahua, Arizona and lew Mexico, very close to the line be- ween Arizona and New Mexico.
 When 1 left the bodies they were sit ing up with their guns. When I re- urned the clothes were cut off and they ere all bruised up, evidently dCne ,ith stick or club. Bunk was lying with is hat gone. Everything was gone in the he shape of guns and ammunition. Absut ve weeks before the shooting while the oys had round up at sycamore they aw fresh Indian tracks-mOccasin racks-aJ the water. Wiley Fitzgerald -snt and got Lieut.. Clarke and hIs couts and showed them the Indian racks, and Lieut.. Clarke said that his couts made the tracks About month go Clarke was camping at our camp in he Guadalupes and told him that ad seen fresh signs of Indians, not over Ienty four hours old. He told ms that is scouts had been hunting game lere. They camped tEere four days. he first day they went out hunting eer in the Cajon Bonita Canyon. The ext day they went cut exploring cave p on the mountain; the day after that hey went up on the Auimas valley uniting antelope and killed five. Some [ the scouts laid around camp and thers went where they wanted to, with bloody to look after them. On the ,urth day it ralned and they stayed in amp. On the fifth day they pulled out bout noon.
 After the shooting of these two men I D the 12th the Indians took our three I