Bisbee daily review., 1906-04-15

Jbuu DiidbtI On tbt tVth it WAS d COW that was killed. The first In- dian was seen about II o'clock. I made my escape about o'clock. We vent up the next day and brought the bodies down. There were about ffieen-Milton V. Hall. Amos K. Potter, Emmett Hansen, Phil Porter, Bill Hildred and others. I was going up the canyon the next day after the bodies. When he got close to the place where the shooting occurred we seen where the Indians had followed ne down the canyon. They had fol lowed me about half a mile After We had the bodies packed up we took a different trail back, going down to the main canyon of the Guadalupe. Before we got to the canyon We saw fresh tracks of the Indians. looking as if they had been made that morning. going south tip the hill. According to the indications the Indiass had been camping for month or more at that place. l told Lieutenant Clark about this when he was there. We found rnocassin track around the beef. twelve fourteen inches long. The place where the killing took place is about fifteen miles north from the monument at the corner of Chihua- bua, Arizona and New Mexico, very close to the line between Arizona and New Mexico.
 When I left the bodies they were sitting up with their guns. When l returned the clothes were cut of and they were bruised up, evidently done with a stick or club. Bunk was lying with his coat gone. Everything was gone in the shape of guns and am intuition. About five weeks before the shooting, while the boys had roundup at Sycamore, they saw fresh Indian tracks, mocassin tracks, at inc water. Wiley Fitzgerald went and got Lieutenant Clark and his scouts and showed them the Indian racks, and Lieutenant Clark said that his scouts made the tracks. About month ago Clark was camping at our camp in the Gradalupes and told him that l had seen fresh signs of Indians, not over twenty-four hours old. He told me that his scouts had been huntiEg game there. They camped there four days. The frs: day they went out hunting deer in the Caion Bonita canyon. The next day they went out exploring a cave up on the mountain. The day after that they went up on the Animas valley hunting antelope and killed five. Some of the scouts laid around camp and others went where they wanted to. with nobody to look after them. On the fourth day it rained and they stayed in camp. On the fifth day they pulled out about noon.
 After the shooting of these two men on the 12th the Indians took our three horses and saddles, two guns. cartridge belts and two rcvolvers and all ammunition and what money they had on their bodies. Lieutenant Clark's scouts had camped about ten miles from where ;he shooting took place. GUS HICKEY.
 Milton B. Hall, being duly sworn, deposed as follows:
 I have resided in Cochise County since '7S, engaged in stockraising in southeastern part of Cochise County. Am acquainted with N. H. Robinson, about two years. He was working for himself when killed, was 9 native of Texas, and was about 26 years old His people reside in San Saba County, Texas. Went with August Hickey to recover the bodies of Bridger and Robinson on the 18th. When we came tD the place of the shooting the first man We came to was N. H. Robinson. We found him lying partly on his side, face down. We then went to where BTidger lay. Found him lying with his head up hill, with pants and boots cut of, shirt turned up to mis shoulders on his back, drawers pulled down to his heels and most of his body naked. R:gh across the back of his head lay burned juniper or cedar stump about q foot and a half long. with which We supposed they had been beating him. I went to fixing the pack saddle and got it ready, led the horse down, packing MT. Robin son first. When I got down to Mir. Robinson again I looked around him for papers, knowing that he had some in his pocket. Seeing none I searched his pockets and found letter and a book in the side pocket of his jumper. Found the balance of his papers tha- I knew he had with him gone. Then l looked for where he was shot and found a bullet hole in the side of his head behind the ear I picked up a new hat that he wore; it was cut in two; found that they had taken red band of the hat. Then we gathered him up and packed him on the horse. I examined John Brid- ger and found 8 gunshot wound that had entered the forehead and come out at the back of the head. John Bridger was born near Kansas City, Missouri, was about 24 or 25 years of age. These two bodies now at the morgue are those of John Bridger and N. H. Robinson. At the time of the killing John Bridger was working for me, and Robinson was working fer himself. My home camp is about ten miles from the place of the kill ing. NJ. B. HALL.
 Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of December, 1890.