The Arizona copper camp., 1918-03-16
OUTLAWS NOW
BEHIND BARS
Stafford JAIL
Powers-Sisson Trio, Draft
Evaders and Murderers of
Graham County Officers,
Captured in Old Mexico

Footsore and exhausted. Tom and
John Powers and Thomas Sisson, who
on February 10 killed Sheriff Mcbride
and his deputies, Kempton and Woo
ten, were captured March by soldiers
of a cavalry regiment eight miles
south of the international line, and
south of Hachita, N. M. The outlaws
were brought to Stafford. where they
are being held in the Graham county
Jail, awaiting a determination of
whether they are to be turned over to
the federal authorities. or whether
hey are to be tried by the state for
the triple killing. The $4,000 reward
for their capture, a part of which is
contingent on their conviction. will he
claimed by New Mexico sheriff, ac-
cording to reports.
If the murder of Sheriff Mcbride
and his deputies in the desperate bat
ted on an Indian reservation, the three
outlaws will be turned over to the
United States marshal and will prob
ably be tried in the federal court at
Tucson. Should it transpire that the
Powers cabin was not on the reserya-
tion, the men will be tried in the SUI
perior court of Graham county, and
face nothing more severe than the life
sentence. If they are tried in the fed
eral court, it seems likely that the
death penalty could be imposed.
Great Man-Hunt Ends
The capture of the three men brings
to a close what officials have said
was the greatest man hunt ever waged
in the southwest. At one time 1000
men, including eight troops of United
States cavalry, were searching for the
officers. United States troops sought
the three men as evaders of the Sc
lective draft, and not as murderers.
The murder of Sheriff Mcbride and
his deputies occurred early Sunday
morning, February 10, when they and
Deputy United States Marshal Frank
Haynes undertook to arrest the two
Powers boys in the mountains near
Klondike, Ariz.
AS the four officers approached the
home of the Powers boys they met a
fusilade of shots, and returned the
fire. Sheriff Mcbride, Under Sheriff
Kempton and Deputy Wooten fell NOR
tally wounded. Jeff Powers. father of
the two boys, was wounded and died
within a few hours.
Men Take to Mountains
Immediately the two Powers boys
and Tom Sisson, former United States
soldier, who participated in Indian
campaigns in Arizona, and an ex-con-
vict, took to the mountains. Posses
were soon formed and took up the
chase, that led back and forth over
Graham and Cochise counties, lasting
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of the Chirichahua mountains, one of
the most inaccessible sections of the
continental divide.
Sheriff Hall of Pinal county pursued
the trail day after day, at times only
a few hours behind theNfugitives. With
him went a score of posse men, while
around the mountain range for dis
tance of fifty miles were strung out
the thousand civilians and soldiers.
Sheriff Hall and other possemen final
ly were forced to abandon the trail
on account of heavy fall of snow in
the mountains.
CavaIrymen Take Up Trail
United States troops, sent out from
Douglas, were called in, and a few
days ago cavalrymen from Hachita,
N. NJ, took up the chase, when it was
reported the fugitives were attempting
to cross into Mexico.