Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-03-09
Tom and John Powers and
Tom SiSson Who Slew
Three Arizona Peace Off,
GERS Caught in Mexico,
OVER THOUSAND MEN
IN HUNT FOR OUTLAW
j, S. Soldiers From Hachita
Pursue DesperadoeS Below
International Boundary and
Bring Them Back,


Douglas, Ariz., March S.-Tom and
John Powers and Tom Ssson. who
killed Sheriff r. F. Mcbride. Under
sheriff M. r. Kempton and Deputy
Sheriff d. X. Wooten of Graham
county, February 10, were caught to-
day by United States soldiers south
of Hachita, eight miles below the in
ternational boundary, the soldiers
having followed the fugitives into
Mexico. according to word received
here tonight. The outlaws were
taken to Hachita and are being
guarded by the soldiers. They sur
rendered without a fight, it was said.
The three men We're taken into
custody as they were attempting to
cross into Mexico. The soldiers tele-
phoned to Hachita late this after
noon that they had just captured the
fuEitives and were bringing them to
the camp -.
The United States soldiers have
been on the trail of the outlaws for
several days, following abandonment
of the search in southeastern Arizona
ten days ago. and it was believed they
starved them out. Not shot was
fired by either side.
Authorities of Graham county, Ari-
zona, were notified of the capture to-
night and it was said officers would
go to Hachita at once to take the men
into custody.
Ends Great Man Hunt.
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 three slayers of the Graham
county officers. The United States
troops military headquarters here eX-
planned, sought the three men as
evaders of the selective 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
Klondyke, Ariz.
AS the four officers approached the
home of the Powers boys they met
fusillade of shots and returned the
fire. Sheriff Mcbride, Undersheriff
Kempton and Deputy Wooten fell
mortally wounded. Jeff Powers,
father of the two boys was wounded
and died within a few hours
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
three weeks and winding in and out
of the Chiricahua mountains, one of
the most inaccessible sections of the
continental divide.
Sheriff Harry c. Wheeler of Cochise
county, pursued the trail day after
day, at times only a few hours behind
the fugitives. With him went score
of possemen, while around the noun
tain range for distance of fifty miles
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soldiers. Sheriff Wheeler and his
posses finally were forced to abandon
the trail on account of a heavy fall of
snow in the mountains.
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.