The border vidette. (Nogales, Ariz.) 1894-1934, 1899-10-21

words from the ofhcers:"I Throw up your
hands," one nam dived into the jacal;
another jumped under the brush--pile,
and the third began coolly to remove
the dough that adhered to his hands.
By this time the officers had advanced
to within 70 feet of the outlaws. Then
came shot from the jacal; in an
instant Flewellius's gun answered,
and the attacking party poured into
the howell hot fire that was answered
with hail of bullets. Hathaway and
EKey stood out in the hail; Flewelling
was close by under the partial cover
of tree; Burns, on the left, had climb
ed few feet up the side Of the canon
Ind Remington WIS doing execution
at about the same elevation on the
right. The fusillade continued more
than five minutes-possibly ten.
Each man had loaded and emptied his
gun twice. The period of action was
like the charge of Balaklava. One
bullet passed SO close to Hathaway's
head that the action stunned him; a
bullet was cut from EKey's coat;
Flewelling was struck in face and head
by pieces of bark tora from the tree by
bullet that lodged in the tree three
inches from his head.
All three were struck by stones
thrown up by bullets and dust was
kicked up all about Burns, who has al
ready di tinguished himself as the man
who hunted down and killed Sontag,
the desperate California bandit.
Every man was IN danger. Each
was mark for the men who were
out of sight and shooting from cover.
No body of men ever took more des-
perate chances. Why none of them
was killed may Fever be explained.
But the fire that was poured into the
jacal and the brush-pile was too hot,
and the gang undertook to escape by
era wiling from the sheltered side
through the brush up the clfon.
The man with the dough on his
hands got shelter behind tree7 and
was there wounded. Burns from his
place got shot at Marquee and one
of his soft-nosed bullets cut the cap of
his skull Ike a knife, and he fell
where he was shot Five others, in
Guiding the one wounded, by crawling
through the underbrush, got far
enough up the canon to reach their
horses tethered there and upon which
they gained this hills shrough..a steep
pass. Captain Hatha way and Burns
followed the trail half mile but got
only one sight of them as they reached
the crest of the mountain, at which
point one of the band gave a yell of
devilish defiance as they passed from
view.
Then they came back. The men
who entered that caiion of death; who
faced unknown dangers and the dead
iy bullets of desperate men, and who
exchanged more than 100 shots with
them, rode back to Harshaw where
the people thanked them for saving
their property at the risk of their
own lives,
In the caiion was found the heads
of upward of 100 cattle that had been
butchered by the outlaws. In the
iacal was found rifle; close by were
a horse, two burros, four pack saddles,
two Mexican riding saddles and two
sacks of provisions, all of which were
taken in charge by Captain Hatha-
way and brought to Nogales, where
the articles have been confscated by
Collector Chenoweth as centraband.
At Harsbaw Justice Richard
Farrell acting as coroner empanelled a
jury consisting of the following citizens
of Harshaw precint: A. J. Wakefield,
R NJ. Bradford, n. A. Mcdonald,
William Leak, Harry Fryer, w. A.
Hopkins, and Eben l.. Oakes. The
justice and the jury went at once to
the scene of the battle and hsld all
inquest on the body Of MARQUEE Upon
hearing the evidence the jury instantly
returned a verdict that deceased came
TO his death while resisting arrest OF
officers acting in the discharge of their
duties.