Arizona silver belt., 1890-03-01
TEE sgRDEE or JSDGE MeC8H&s AND
 WIFE Es eHiEsCaEIAs.

MT 5. L. Sanders, writing from inc
 Pioneer mining district to the Flor
 ence Enterprise, under date of Febru-
 ary 18th, says: T notlce in your last
 issue the report of a meeting of the
 Arizona Pioneers in which they adopt
 sd resolutions strongly protesting
 against Gen, Crook s policy in dealing
 with Apache Indians, If 1t be true
 that Gen. Crook youches for tbeir good
 behavior say God help Arizona and New Mexico if the hendish Chiriea-
 haas should be removed to place
 near their former hunting grounds for human beings.
 was Aying in New Mexico at the time Chatto and Dutehy made tber
 bloody raid up lbe aila river by Cliff. ton and through the Maydnwer min- Ing d!stuct, killing seven men near Clifton and five n the Mayhower dis trict IhIs was on the 26th day of March, 1883, and on March 27th, about ten 0 clock. Judge McC1mas, bla wife and little son, Charley, had just passed through Thompson canyon, out Of the Burro mountains, and when about one nlle out onto the open country on their way to Shakespeare, as happy as larks the Judge intending to leave his family at Shakespeare while be went 10 Las Cruces tD attend the | S court, then Tn session-the Judge and wife were killed and bIs son captured by these Indians.
 l was then deputy of Marshal A. L. Morrison, and had the opportunity 10 kncw the facts herein stated, and de fy their impeachment. Two other men and their wives were witnesses to Chatte's deeds, no true report of which has ever appeared m print.
 As 1 said, the Judge and his family had got fairly cut ot the canyon and upon the open plain. There were some walnut trees growing by ihe roadside, and hackberry and elder bushes. II was behind a cluster Of these walnut trees, about twenty-five feet from the road on the right hand side as Judge McComas was travelling, t1a, thts sdihiiy Uhdito and his hand oi 29 Indians lay Tn wait
 When the Judge and family were nearly opposite them the Indians fired and shot down the oil-wheeler of the team and wounded the Judge. He ran about sixty yards before he fell l The red devils then gave wild whoop and a ruSb, and Mrs. NeComas and 1 her son were made cdptiyes. My blood 1 boils even al this late day at the hor. rible scene that followed, and my pen l cannot detail the vile conduct of these ! human only h form. The 1 person of ths aniortunate lady was i violated m the most brutal manner: ! her clothes were torn from her body | which was torn and scratched most | When her life was almost tortured out they beat the back of ber head until her brains oozed out and | then 10 exhibit stii! further proof ot iheir inhupanIty, hey broke of | branches of the elder bushes and thrust |. them deep into her body, as many as they conId
 The Judges body was riddled witb bullets and not a stitch of clothing was left upon hia body. Little Charley was never heard of afterwards.
 Has General Crook ever heard of this leed of bis brave and dear friend Chat. .o? Ii not let him know the facts and likewise all those sentimentalists of ,he cast who love the Indians v
 fDr. Alex. Tuppel who was one of a party of sixteen or more citizens who went from the inning town of Pas lual to the scene of the murder, fonr. ,een miles distant, and who viewed !. he bodies of judge MeComasand wife . md witnessed thelr removal. confirms he above account inN all material -EDlroRs BELT.
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