The Coconino sun., 1922-05-19

character of the Basin, with "Kid" Blivins and two kindred spirits, "shot up Winslow one summer night and escaped in the darkness. But Owens sent them word that they would be arrested the next time they came to Winslow. A few weeks later Cooper and his gang did come and meeting a citizen of the town they told him to tell the "old long hair," meaning the sheriff, to come around and see them.
 This message was duly conveyed to Owens who was in another part of town. Meanwhile the gang had re- paired to 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 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 h. dian outlaw the Southwest has known He was about twenty years old when he was enlisted at It. Thomas, Ariz., as a 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 military and for the next nine years was terror to Indians and whites alike. The deaths of about one hun dred Arizona people have been laid to this Indian outlaw. Only once was he apprehended and that was in 1892 for the murder of wagon freighter on the San Carlos road. For this crime he was sentenced to life i'm. with three other Apaches and Mexi- can sentenced for lesser crimes, awaiting transportation to the terri torial prison at Yuma.
 Glenn Reynolds then was sheriff of Gila county. Reynolds was the type in appearance, of frontier sheriffs now seen in the moving pictures, with all the courage and disregard of dan ger of his Texas forbears, 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 prison CTS were handcuffed, but the Mexican was not. The stage driver was a white man named Middleton. It was a chill winter day and the sheriff, who was armed with carbine and six shooter, wore an overcoat closely but toned. It is to the oyercoat that Reynolds friends ascribed his death.
 About half way to Casa Grande the stage crossed the Gila river and en- tered rugged mountain range. When the horses were toiling up a 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 wrestled the carbine from the sheriff and shot him dead. The shot frightened the stage team which started to run away and a 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 the Mexican so closely that he was obliged to cut leader loose to make his escape to the nearest settlement, about 25 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 a 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 lie in some mountain cavern in the Ara