Arizona republican., 1921-09-15
Posse On Trail

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 Posse On Trail
 At late hour tonight posses. hast fly formed in Warren. Bisbee and. other nearby towns were reported to have surrounded the men in Gold Guich, about one mile east of Warren. where the attack took place At :30 a. m.f members of one Of the posses repofted that no trace of the Mexi- cans had been found in Gold Gulch. Posses are still searching surround ing hills.
 Miss Champion was badly beaten, according to reports received in Bis bee While attempting to make her way to the home of her brother, Ralph Champion, her cries were heard by neighbor who gave the alarm.
 Deputy sheriffs Immediately start ed for Gold Gulch accompanied by armed residents of Warren and viz cinity. Other officers and citizens from Bisbee and Lowell formed addi- tional posses that were rushed to Gold Gulch in automobiles. Had Given Warning Whether the raid had been made from across the Mexican border or was local in character had not been determined late tonight.
 Warning that the John Slaughter and other border ranches about IS miles east of Douglas were to be raided by Mexicans was contained in anonymous letters received last week by Chief of Police Percy Bowden of Douglas. No reference was made in the latter. however, to any purported plans for raiding ranches west of Douglas
 Gold Gulch is a small canyon in the Mule mountains about four miles north of the Mexican border Owing to it's rough character. posses en- countered difficulties in closing in on i the spot where the men were first believed to have taken refuge
 Woman Will Recover As the result of her injuries, Miss Champion was able to give only a partial account of the attack Al though seriously injured. physicians said she probably would recover.
 While looking for a stray horse in Gold Gulch. she said. she encountered three men who were driving away q burro carrying the body of a calf ap- parently just been killed
 Miss Champion said that aftei shooting her horse from under her the three men threw her to the ground and kicked her and beat her One of the Mexicans, she said, want
 ed to cut off one of her fingers C secure a ring. but was persuaded I from doing so by the other two men
 Miss Champion said that one of the three. apparently the leader. started to cut her tongue out. A physician
 who attended her when she was taken to her brothers home said that cut about her mouth corroborated this statement.
 Followed Threats to Raid. A request for a detachment of fed eral troops for border patrol in Co., chice county was made by Governor
 Thomas E. Campbell in a message ts
 Secretary of War Weeks last Sunda,
 but no response had been received up to a late hour last night. Henr Behoteguy, secretary to the governor Isaid. The request for federal troop, was made at the solicitation of Judge.
 A. c. Lockwood and Albert NJ. Samel
 of the superior court of Cochise eoun- ty, -vho expressed fear of bordel raids as a result of the conviction O.
 two Mexicans for the murder of Jesi Fisher. foreman of the John Slaugh.
 ter ranch in Cochise county. in theil communication to the governor. Response to a previous request fol i federal troops att Ruby, where Post : master and Mrs. Frank J. Pearson , were killed by bandits August 26, last
 was received from the adjutant gen
 eral at Washington, Secretary Be , hoteguy announced. The request nal been referred to the commandant O 1 the eighth corps area at Fort San ' Houston. Texas, who will communi , cate directly with the governor. thu
 adjutant general said.