The border vidette. (Nogales, Ariz.) 1894-1934, 1899-10-21
TWO BANDITS Die.
Officers and Outlaws Battle Al!
t!s.a Range.
A HAIL OF DEATH IN 4 CANON
Brave Posse Back from the Jaws of
Death After the Most Desperate
and Heroic Close Range Dual
in the History of Border Out
lawry.

Cruz Marquee and Domingo Vidal,
Mexican outlaws were killed Tuesday
morning by U. S. officers in the
most desperate battle at close quarters
that has yet been recorded in the
criminal history of the southwest.
For several weeks q band of des-
perados and smugglers had been ter
rorizing the settlers in the valleys
and mining camps in the Patagonia
mountains. Their raids on cattle and
highway depredations had become
unbearable to the settlers, and finally
an appeal came to Nogales for the
Ca pture and arrest Of the bandits.
A posse consisting of United States
Inspector J. L Hathaway, w. w.
Flewelling, Captain w. j. EKey, Tom
Burns and William Wohler was Or
galized Monday, and left Nogales
at o'clock that night. Hatha-
way, EKey and Burns carried Win
chesters in addition to six, shooters;
TVohler a shotgun and Flewelling a
six-shooter. The posse proceeded to
Harshaw, mining settlement in the
Patagonias, twenty-seven miles by
trail northeast of Nogales. They ar
rived there at two O'Clock Tuesday
morning and secured breakfast. In
the interim of the stop there, Claude
Remington joined the party with his
willing winchester. Remington knew
the location of the camp of the des-
peradoes. They had stolen saddle
from him few days before, and during
a trip into the hills looking for the
thieves, he came upon their camp and
barely escaped death. Only a few
days before this same gang robbed a
Mexican " oodsmap, killed his burro
and shot him through the arm.
1t was little past four o'clock when
the brave party of six took up the
ira on their desperate mission.
Remington knew that the OUTLAW
numbered at least six; they had been
hunted out of Mexico by the rurales;
they knew United States authorities
wanted them, and they had sent word
to Harshaw that they would never be
taken alice.
Cautiously, to avoid ambush the
posse proceeded to the mouth of Blue
nose canon, two and half miles from
Harshaw, and il which the despera-
does were camped. At the mouth OF
the cailon the six defenders of the law
dismounted, and Wohler was assigned
to guard the horses. the coming OF
another day was heralded by streak,
of silver that cast a halo about the
peaks of the eastern mountains. The
csnon is narrow; with almost perpen-
dicular sides. 1t may be described al
like the pass of Thermopol@ where
Spartacus deted the flower OF the
Roman army. The little band that
cnt red the canon thai morning pos
sessed the courage of those Spartans
A whispered conference was held;
the enemy might he near; for heavy
growth of scruuoak obscured the gen.
eral view. Flewelling, Hathaway and
EKey we're on the trail in the cente,
of the defle. Burns was to advance
on the left and Rening ton on the rig ht
In this order the five men crept to
ward dang enemy. Not a man
faltered. 1t was a march of duty; an
advance upon desperate band, that
possibly meant death
Silently, foot upon foot nearly a half
mile had been passed, when, at turn
in the canon, just as the sun eilded the
dome like mountains, the camp of the
outlaws was seen 80 yards ahead.
Three zen lowered about fire; one i'll
the act of mixing flour for tortillas
Close to the right was a rudely con-
structed jacal matched with grass. I'M
media tely beyond the jacal and almost
obscured from view by it was a low,
rude covering of brush Crouching
low and advancing on the run, F1ewel-
ling, Hathaway and EKey cut down
to 80 yards the distance that separated
them from the outlaws. They were