The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-04
Grand Junction SUM-

Sheriff Ed Beeler of Apache county,
Arizona arrived in town last night over
the narrow gauge from Mapeos,. where
he got news Of the killing of Sheriff
Tyler and Deputy jenkins By q band
out outlaws, murdereTs and cattle
thieves whose trail ne had been fol-
lowing ever since the 18th of March.
As soon as he read the descriptions OF
the horses, rifles and aCcoutrements OF
the murderers, he knew at once they
were the band of I'VE men whom ne
and posse engaged in a running fight
near Springerviiie, Ariz., on the 18th OF
March. At that time there was a oand
Of seven TUstiers opeI ating in the Vlcln-
ity of SDringerViIIc- Beeler arrested
two of them for cattle rustling, and
shortly after a warrant was sworn out
for the arrest of the remainder Of the
outfit Beeler has seen ali of the band
that killed Tyler. aud can identity all
by sight and three by name-Capehart,
Black end Todd Carver, the latter be
ing minus the forefnger of his right
hand.
IN March 26 Beeler, with a posse of
four, ret these five men in the open
prairie country near Springerville, one
of the posse being a cattle-Owner who
had suffered at the hands of the rob-
bers. The sheriff advised delay in at
lacking them and the sending for rein
forcements but the cattle-grower was
for immediate fight. and the ball opened
at once and there was a running light
for over twenty miles. Two of the rob-
/ hers horses were killed, and one OF
them received a bail across the stOm-
ach. IN the meantime another posse
had left Springerviue in which were
two young men, named Lesueur and
Gibbons. BY the following day they
had struck the trail of the fleeing out
laws, but by some unfortunate ciTcum-
stance had missed the sheriff's posse
returning to town. of the second posse
all finally returned to Springerville but
Lesueur and Gibbons. They pressed the
quarry close. and finally fell into a
well laid ambush. The robbers waited
until they had approached to within
twenty feet of their cover, and then
shot 10th through the head. Then they
mutildted the bodies by shooting in a
horrible manner-(this same thing was
done to the bodies of Tyler and Jenkins
last Saturday,. When the sheriff re-
sumed the chase the next day he was
not long in finding the bodies of Le-
sueur and Gibbons. This was March
p. From that day TO this he has never
wearied in the effort to bring the muir
derers to justice.
. Accompanied by two deputies, he
drove the gang into old Mexico, back
through New Mexico, up thu Ough south
ern Colorado, until they again made
themselves notorious by killing Tyler
and his deputy. When the chase was
near the line of Old Mexico the rob-
bers killed in the coolest kind of blood
an innocent old pTospector, whose grut
they wanted, and who happened tC
know one of the party. Beeler then raI
them across the Navajo and Zuni In
dian reservations. and at Duncan, n
NJ, he was close enough to them tC
give warning to Scarbel at LOrdsburg
the Wells-FargO special agent, and one
of the most daring and successful man
AunterS IN the west. Scarbel imme-
/ diately took steps to intercept them
and so accurate was the information
he he'd received that on the followins
morning he and onG deputy ran int
the killers not fat from Lordsburg
{ They were intrenched behind rocks, anC
/ 1t seemed the very height of foOlhardi
ness to attack them. Scarbels deputy
/ entreated him to withdraw. but HI
would listen to nothing. He had hardly
gotten within shooting distance wheT
bullet from COpehart's 1910 snuffeC
cut his life. The deputy fed and /.
alive to tell the tale. Beeler again tool
I up the trail, unwearied in the chase
and with grim determination to run