Bisbee daily review., 1908-01-11
.DAGGS BULLIED
MANY; POSED
AS BAD Man
Deputy Sheriff Relates Incident
Showing That Man Now
Dead Had Invited
Trouble.
DiTMoRE WAS KNOWN AS
GUN AND AFFIDAVIT MAN
Much of Trouble In Mining Dis
trict Due To Daggs' Over
bearing Manner.
DiTMoRE WAS KNOWN AS
GUN AND AFFIDAVIT MAN

ticipated in the assassination, who
saw A. j. Daggs and George Detmore,
alive. McMurray went to Superior
several days before the killing to put
some men to work on some claims be-
longing TO Sheriff Thompson and j.
B. Newman of this city, and he talked
with Daggs an hour before the killing.
Notwithstanding this fact, howey or,
McMurray did not hear of the tragedy
until two days after it had occurred.
After seeing that the work on the
claim was under way, MMurray went
to Superior and left there at noon for
Globe, arriving here on the evening
OF New Years day. The next morn
ing he left for Phoenix with two in
sane men and while in that city OBJ
tanned his first information of the
killing.
Nc Murray tells an interesting story
of his trip TO Superior and it may
have direct bearing on the tragedy,
when more becomes known about it.
He arrived in Superior on December
81, making the trip at the request of
Sheriff Thompson, who was laid up
with the grip. The claims on which
the work was to be done were the
by Thompson and Newman, who re-
located them last year, after the com
pany of which Daggs was the head
had failed to do their annual work
McMurray hired three men to start
the work that night and early on the
morning of New Years day he went
up to the camp about two miles from
Superior to see what progress was be-
ing made. On the preceding day
he had taken up to the claims a camp
ing outfit and tolls with the assistance
of Jim Neary and Bob Stewart. \
When McMurray arrived at the
place where the work was in prog
ress he found Jesse Brown, his son
Mark and Thomas Enright at work.
The elder Brown, who owns claims in
the district and who had had trouble
with Daggs over the ownership of
the property, told McMurray that he
did not like the looks of things. I'VE
want the work all right" he said, "but
we don'twant to fight for it McMur-
ray expressed surprise at this and
Brown pointed up the trail about 200
feet to where two men were standing.
"Fhat's Daggs and one of his gunner
and they are liable to start something
said Brown. McMurray started over
to the cabin of Bob Stewart, which
was about three quarters of mile dis
tant, and when he reached the place
where the two men were standing the
man who had been pointed out to him
as Daggs accosted. him and asked him
his name. McMurray gave his name
the one which was found in the note
book found near his body later,
and on a page of which was
written a line accusing Bob Stew
art of the murder. McMuTray asked
him il he was going to stop the men
from working on the claims and Daggs
replied, mo, they are nothing to me,
but II ] run across those - -
who sent them here, I'll settle
with them in short order" tapping his
gun at the same time.
During this conversation Daggs
stood with his Winchester at half
cock. McMurray wasn't looking for
trouble and he told Daggs that he was
going over to Stewards cabin to de
liver some instructions to him regard.
ing some other claims, in which Globe
people were interested and Daggs told
him that he would probably not find
Stewart at home as he was doing
some work, some distance away. Stew
art was not at home and McMurray re
turned to where the Browns and En-
right were at work. He did not know
their names and waited to obtain them
When he arrived there, Daggs and
Hunter" were also there. When Nc.
Murray took the names of the men
Daggs also copied them into his note
book. The Globe man then gave some
final instructions to the men and start
ed for Superior, arriving there few
minutes before twelve o'clock. After
exchanging a few words with Ernest
Zeiler at the latter's store, McMurray
left for Globe, arriving here at 1880
that evening.
McMurray stated that when he was
at Stewards cabin he heard small
blast and looked In the direction from
which the sound came, he saw a man
about three-quarters Of mile away up
the mountain. This man, he believes,
was Hoestadt who claims to have seen
the tragedy from point described as
about the same place.
McMurray believes that at least one
Of the men accused OF the crime Is in
nocent. On the night previous to the
killing. he says he saw Ed Fondren,
with whom he was well acquainted.
Fondren told him he was going to
some claims north of the old Silver
King mine about four miles north OF
Superior, to do some work and he left
Superior that evening at about six
O'Clock with a man named Duffy. Fon
dren resided in Globe for number OF
years and he is well known in this
city. A letter was received from hin
by q Globe friend yesterday in which
he stated that he would have no diff
Guilty in proving an abb. II he went
to the Silver King as he told Nc
Murray. he was at least six miles away
from where the killing took place.
Sheriff Thompson stated to a Silver
Belt representative last evening that
he believed that the two men were
killed by volley from half 6ozep
or more guns and that at least that
many men were mixed up In the kill
ing. Daggs had incurred the enmity OF
many OF the claim owners in the dis
trict and he appeared to have them
bluffed through his apparent readiness
to use his gun. He was always sc