Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-05-12
OLD TIME ARIZONA SHFR|FFS

Winslow one summer night and escap ed in the darkness. But Owens sen
 them word that they would be arrest ked the next time they came to Win
 slow. A few weeks later Cooper anc his gang did come and meeting a citi
 zen of the town they told him to tel the "old long hair, meaning the sher' tiff, to come around and see them.
 This message was duly conveyed te Owens who was in another part o1 town. Meanwhile the gang had re. paired to a Chinese restaurant, taking seats facing the door at one of the tables. Suddenly the figure of the sheriff appeared in the doorway. When the powder smoke had cleared away three of the gang lay dead upon the floor and the fourth was fatally wounded. Owens did not receive a | scratch.
 Apache Kid was the most noted In- dian outlaw the Southwest has known. He was about twenty years old when he was enlisted at Ft. Thomas, Ariz. as government scout by Al Sieber, Chief of Scouts, in 1886 but took ad- vantage of this to kill some of his Indian enemies. He was arrested for these crimes but escaped from the mil itary and for the next nine years was terror to Indians and whites alike. The deaths of about one hundred Arizona people have been laid to this Indian outlaw. Only once was he ap- prehended and that was in 1892 for the murder of a wagon freighter on the San Carlos road. For this crime he was sentenced to life imprisonment and was in jail in Globe, with three other Apaches and a Mexican sentenc- ed for lesser crimes, awaiting trans portation to the Territorial prison at Yuma.
 Glenn Reynolds then was sheriff of Gila county. Reynolds was the type in appearance, of frontier sheriff now seen in the moving pictures, with all the courage and disregard of danger of his Texas forebears, so alone he essayed to take the prisoners to the Territorial prison.
 For ninety miles the way was by stage across mountains and desert to Casa Grande station on the Southern Pacific where they would take the train for Yuma. The Indian prisoners were handcuffed but the Mexican was not. The stage driver was 8 white man named Middleton. It was chill winter day and the sheriff, who was armed with carbine and six-shooter, wore an overcoat closely buttoned. It is to the overcoat that Reynolds friends ascribed his death.
 About half way to Casa Grande the stage crossed the Gila river and en- tered a rugged mountain range. When the horses were toiling up steep hill it was like Reynolds to order the prisoners to walk to tighten the load The stage was stopped and the sheriff got out and was standing beside it, carbine in hand. As the Indians step ped to the roadway beside him, one of them suddenly whirled and threw his arms down over the sheriff's head, pinning the officers arms to his sides. In the struggle that followed Apache Kid Wrested the carbine from the sheriff and shot him dead. The shot heightened the stage team which started to run away and second shot from the carbine tumbled the stage driver from his seat.
 The Mexican, who meanwhile had remained in the stage, now climbed to the drivers seat and endeavored to escape with the stage outfit but the Indians soon had unlocked their hand cuffs with keys found in the sheriff's pockets and with wild yells they gave chase and pushed Mexican so closely that he was obliged to cut leader loose to make his escape to the nearest settlement, about twenty five miles distant where he gave the alarm. . ! After plundering the stage the In- .dians disappeared in the mountains. They were never apprehended and Apache Kid continued his forays. But in 1895 he was wounded in night battle with government scouts on Ara vaipa creek but again escaped. After this the outlaw completely disappear ed. Old Apache warriors I know aver that the Kid fled to Mexico where he died natural death in 1898 and still others believe that his bones lay in some mountain cavern in the Aravai- pa country. Middleton, the stage dri- yer, was SO badly wounded that he was left for dead by the Indians but he finally recovered and is still liv- in Globe, Arizona.
 It may seem strange that handcuf- l fed Indians could thus disarm and