Arizona republican., 1918-02-13
MCBRIDE SLAYERS
NEAR POOL, REPORT
FROM AUTHORITIES
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services have not been needed. There
is particular anxiety on the part of
local officials to aid the Graham
county officers to avenge the death
of Sheriff MeBridge, as it was he who
sent carload of Deputies to Globe on
July 4, when riots threatened the peace
OF this community
Did Not Know Haynes Was There
Henry Allen, a youth living near the
Powers, is now in Stafford. He reports
thal the fugitives stopped at his ranch
and told him of the killing. Apparently
they did not know that Haynes was
with the officers which explains the
fact that he escaped with his life. The
United States marshal was with
Sheriff Mcbride when the attack was
made. Haynes and Mcbride conferred
and it was agreed that the federal Of
ticer should circle around ridge and
make counter attack in case of
trouble. Before he could reach the
brow Of the ridge, however, the three
officers had been slain and his only
hope of capturing the men was by
| gaining reinforcements
In the meantime the outlaws. believ-
ing they had killed the entire party of
officers. mounted the slain mems
1
the Allen place they told Henry that
each of them had got one officer"
This bore out the belief that they did
not know of the presence of Marshal
| Haynes.
Governor Hunt yesterday issued a
proclamation Of reward Of $1,000 for
the capture of each of the Powers
brothers and SisSon, the murderers of
Sheriff Mcbride of. Graham county and
two other officers near Klondyke, Ora
ham county, last Sunday. The offer
was made after visit to the capitol
! by United States Marshal Dillon.
! Under the statutes the state may of
| fer reward only for the capture and
! conviction Of fugitives, while boards Of
supervisors may Offer rewards for their
capture, and the capture may be dead
4 or alive But it is thought that If the
desperados should be killed in a fight
/ with the officers, the reward could not
/ be paid
The marshal yesterday received a
| telegram from the sheriff of Pima
county giving the last account of the
murderers. They had been located by
a cowboy who had run across their
trail on an old deserted mountain trail.
They were making evidently for an
/ abandoned ranch in the mountains not
far from the New Mexican boundary
where the father of the Powers boys
formerly lived.
The cowboy knew the trail by the
tracks of two horses and a mule, the
equipment with which the murderers
were known to have fled after the mas
sacre of the officers. The cowboy fol-
lowed the trail until he had an oppor-
tunity to telephone to the sheriffs Of
flee at Tucson. Before that it led him
across the Southern Pacific near San
Simon.
Expect to Intercept Fugitives
1t is thought that the fugitives will
certainly be intercepted by one or more
of the posses in pursuit. They are evil
IDENTIFY heading toward the Mexican
line and before they can reach it, il
will have been strongly guarded.
George McClarty a former deputy
! United States marshal and who has
pursued train. mail robbers and othel
bandits through that part of the coun-
try said that the murderers had made
a mistake in attempting to reach Mex
leo. They could more easily have eludeC
pursuit by making from the San Pedro
at Reddington back into the mountains
and ultimately to the White noun
tains whence they would have had G
chance of escape. That is the trail thai
many of the early bandits took anG
sometimes they got away.
1t was over that route that Murphy
Morey and Gibson went though they