Arizona republican., 1895-01-03
AT HIS HEELS.
Prices Early Capture
Regarded Certain.
Latest From the Pursuit
of the Murderer.
He and Young Wandering in
the Desert Huhting Water.
One of the Pursuing Parties Camped
Within Two Miles of the
FugitiVeS.

"We'll get 'em as sure as God," said
Deputy Frank Prothero last Monday
night as he climbed into buck board
at Gila Bend to set out the second time
in pursuit of Price and Young.
1t seems likely that the scarcity of
water in the country throughout which
the murderer and his companion are
travelling will prevent their reaching
the Mexican line. They find them
selves confronted by inevitable and in
surmountable thirst and behind them
are five we'll armed and provisioned pur-
suers.
The latest news from the hunt was
brought in yesterday morn ing by Mr..
I'M. Burnett, of Gila Bend. He says
that rank Prothero. Billy Moore and
Bill Kellogg, who left Sentinel last
Friday morning, returned on Mon
day and adopted another plan of pur
suit which they believed could not fall
short of success. They said that they
had followed the tracks of Price and
Young thirty miles south of Sentinel to
a point at which the trail turned off in
southwesterly direction along deep
arroyo toward a mountain.
They also discovered the tracks of
Harris and Indian Sam following, and
from the imperative condition OF the
two trails, the parties could not have
been far apart. After following the
trail several miles the Proshero party
discovered the tracks of Price and
Young returning, ~ could fnd none
OF Harris and Indian Sam.
Knowing the improbability of the
Indian having been thrown off the
trail, they arrived at the startling con-
cluson that they had been murdered.
suspecting or knowing that they were
being pursued, turned aside down the
arroyo and having led their pursuers
into mbush, murdered them.
The horses of the Prothero party
were by this time terribly jaded, and
not knowing how far in advance Price
and Young might be, it was suddenly
decided to trust to the delay which the
desert opposed to>the fight and to re-
turn for fresh horses, forage and water.
They rea he'd Sentinel on Monday
morning, their horses having been
| without water forty-six hours, and
! taking freight train for ella Bend, ar
| rived there on Tuesday night.
| They Immediately started from Gila
Bend with Frank Welcomes best team
hitched to a buckboar They carried
barrel of water and a quantity of hay
and grain. They also took three led
saddle horses. Their plan was to drive
as far as possible toward the line that
night and the next morning, after hav-
ing fed and watered the horses, set out
on horseback. They were piloted
among the intricate wood roads by. a
guide who returned to Gila Bend the
next morning and said that the horse
back ride had been begun.
Before leaving Sentinel the Prothero
party sent party out to find the bodies
of Harris and Indian Sam. The men
returned the next day and said that
they had followed the two trails to the
point from which the. Prothero party
had turned back. Proceeding farther
they came upon the late camp of Harris
and the Indian and two miles farther
found where Price and Young had
camped on the same night. They dis
covered also the curious circumstance
that Harris and the Indian had come
upon the camp OF the fugitives and that
for some reason had moved away. 1t
is supposed that knowing Price and
Young could not proceed much farther
in the direction they were going
they would return in the morning to
the point from which they had diverg-
ed. The safer plan therefore evidently
was to intercept them. The supposi-
ton further is that the fugitives break
ing camp in the night passed Harris
camp unobserved, and that Harris and
the Indian discovering this in the morn
ing turned off in southeasterly direc
tion intending to head the murderer of
in his course on the original trail.
The party from Sentinel followed the
returning trail of the fugitives for son-e
distance after they had returned to the
road from Sentinel. They said that
they seemed to be hunting water. Then
horses must have been nearly exhaust
ed as the men had dlsmounted anC
walked long distances.
The nearest point at which they coulC
find water on the Mexican road is at
Oio, nearly fifty miles distant, and il
seemed impossible that they could react
it. 1t seems more likely that they viii
wear themselves out in the hopeless
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