Arizona republican., 1899-01-05
WORN BY APACHE KID
HandCuffs and Leg Irons Found Near
 Florence.

It is nearly ten years since Sheriff Glenn Reynolds and Deputy Holmes Of Gila county were killed four miles west
 Of Riverside by the Apache Kid and
 six other Indians they were taking to
 the territorial prison, says the Flor ence Tribune. Eugene Middleton, who
 was driving the stage, was desperately
 wounded and left for dead. It was a
 bloody chapter of Arizona history, and it was vividIy recalled last Tuesday by ! the discovery of a pair of handcuffs and | leg irons lying eaten with rust about ona hundred yards west of the scene | of the butchery.
 Shields 6 Prices teams were return l ing from the Ray mine when George
 Smith, one of the drivers, picked up the articles and brought them to Flor ence. At the time Of the murder the stage was being driven up the hill from the big wash. The officers and six of the Indians, shackled two together with one pair of handcuffs and one pair of leg irons, had gotten out to walk in or der to tighten the load. They were some distance behind the coach, when the Indians grappled with the sheriff and his deputy, and securing their weapons shot the officers dad. Taking the keys from the pocket of the sheriff the shackleS were unlocked and the In dians were free. The Apachs. Kid and a Mexican, who were ironed singly, had remained in the stage, but it was only the work of a few minutes for the liber- ated prisoners to release them after shooting Middleton.
 The irons which have just been found were without doubt those which played an important part in the bloody affair Middleton is now a prominent busi- OF IOhO hn h never afterwards was apprshended, proved to be the terror of southeastern Arizona for many years, many mur- ders being laid at his door.
 Ed A. Clark, better known as Walla- pal Clark, killed an Indian in the Gal lurias, which he thought was the Kid, but the body of the Indian could not be found, his companions having spirited it away.
 In the past few years Apache Kid has never been seen in Arizona The rewards for his capture became So large in the aggregate that he decided to go to Mexico. He went into the Yaqui country and lived with that tribe in the YaqUi valley. He did not remain long before he had banded together a hun dred braves who left the valley and began a wholesale raid of the ranches in the mountains. Kosterlitski and a troup of Mexican cavalry were soon on the trail of the Indians and they sue ceeded in capturing twelve of them whom they shot and continued in pur- suit of the others. They were followed into the Sierra Madre mountains where all traces of them weira lost. Apache Kid returned to the Yaqui valley last spring and organized another band and the Mexican cavalry had another e1cit- ing chase after the Kid but he escaped into the mountains, although a num- ! bar of his party were captured and shot.
 A reporter for The Republican who went to the Yaqui country to investi- gate the gold discoveries reported to have been made met an American in the Si2rra Madre mountains who knew the Kid and he was then planning his capture Apache Kid had visited Ari Vecha, a Mexican 2UebJo located in a