The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-11
AN APAoHE RENEGADE.
Kid, the Lurderous Outlaw, Who Has
Been Hunted in Vain.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.

From the san Francisco Chronicle.
The Kid is now about 33 years old.
During his boyhood he lived on or near
the San Carlos reservation. He was en-
plOyed as q scout at least twelve years
ago. At the time he became an outlaw
he was first sergeant of a company of
scouts. having served eight years in that
capacity. The Kids first offense was the
murder of the man who had killed the
Kids step-father on the ella river, be-
tween San Carlos and Fort Thomas, in
1887, while under the influence of tezwin,
a peculiar intoxicating decOCtiOn. A few
days after the murder the Kid surren-
dered himself at San Carlos. While be-
ing taken to the guard house with some
other Indians an attack was made by
them on the Indian agent and the inter
prefer All the prisoners, including the
Kid, escaped.
After being out about six weeks they
all surrendered themselves again to Gen
Miles. They were tried by general court
martial, and were sentenced to term of
Imprisonment at Alcatraz. After serving
about a year The Kid was pardoned by
Gen Howard, and was taken back to San
Carlos. He was there arrested by Capt
Bulls, on the same old charge, and was
turned over to the civil authorities. This
was in 1889. He was tried at Globe, A. T..
and was sentenced to Imprisonment al
Yuma. While being taken there with
some other Indian prisoners by Sheriff
Reynolds and deputy, although heavily
nanacled, the prisoners managed to kill
both the sheriff and his deputy, and left
the driver OF the conveyance for dead
They took with them all the guns and
ammunition of the murdered officers.
All the Indians who escaped with him
have since been killed by the Mexican In.
dian police, called rurales. All efforts to
capture the Kid, however, proved to be in
vain. The kid was undoubtedly concerned
in several murders before this time, and,
of course, was in part responsible for the
murder Of the sheriff and his deputy.
from that time until the present, as q
rule, the Kid had no other companions
than squaws. Since 1890 he has been the
only renegade Indian from the San Carlos
or White mountain reservations. There
are, however, six renegade Chiricahua
Indians in Arizona, New Mexico and the
state Of Sonora, who spend most of their
time in the Sierra Madre mountains in
Mexico, and from time to time raid and
plumber together or singly.
Five of the ChiricahuaS are the rem
nant of GerOnimo's band who did not sur
render to Gen. Miles in 1886. The sixth,
an Indian named Masse, is probably the
UlOSJ IEMdIhuBlG IGuGHdtAG WuO ever
rOamed in the southwest, although not
so notorious as the Kid. Masse sur
rendered with Geronimo, but jumped
from a train somewhere west of the Mis-
sissippi river He was supposed to have
been killed The first tidings to the con-
trary were made known by squaw, who
arrived at Fort Apache in 1890 She re
ported that she had stolen away from a
Chiricahua Indian, who told her he had
escaped from the train which took Ge-
rOnimO and his band eastward. He also
told her he had spent two years In work
ing his way back to Arizona. Masse and
the Kid have been together at times. Re
Gently Masse has been with the remain
ing Chiricahuas. During the fall Of 1892
the Kid, Masse and several of the other
Chiricahuas were together and commit
ted many murders and depredations in
New Mexico and Arizona.
The Kid is now supposed to be by him
self. The last murder he is known to
have committed is that of an Indian on
the Garlic, small branch of the Salt
river, on the White Mountain reservation.
When the Kid is alone he spends most Of
the time in the canyons of the ella, near
the reservation. The killing of Lawyer
Hardy, near old Camp Rucker is also at
tributed to the Kid, but there is good
reason to believe that the attorney was
killed by Masse or some of his band 1t is
generally stated that the Kid was
educated at Hampton or Carlisle AS a
matter of fact, he never attended any
school ana cannot read or write.