CORPORAL IRISH
December 22, 1901

A telegram was received here yesterday by the United 
States Marshal McCord with the information that Corporal 
Irish, an Indian scout attached to the Apache Indian agency 
at San Carlos, has been murdered, Friday about twelve miles 
from Willcox.  A native scout bearing the poetical name of 
Haskl-distal, was in company with the dead man when last 
seen and the fact that his whereabouts are now unknown is 
taken as very conclusive evidence that the Indian scout 
is the murderer.  It is supposed that Haskl-distal will 
seek a refuge among his tribesmen on the reservation and 
endeavor to conceal his identity.  Other scouts are on 
his trail and deputy marshals have left for the scene of 
the crime.  There are no advices as to whether the 
murdered man and the scout quarreled or whether it 
was a plain cold blooded murder.


January 19, 1902
Arizona Republican Newspaper

Within the last few days two bad men have been apprehended 
in eastern Arizona and two murders that were more or less 
mysteriously accomplished are about to be explained and 
the guilty men brought to justice.

The first of these is the Apache Indian who killed Corporal 
Irish, about twelve miles from Wilcox on the Fort Grant 
Road on December 20.  It is reported that he has been 
captured at San  Carlos and will be turned over to the 
civil authorities for trial.  Both Corporal Irish and 
his slayer were scouts and so far as was previously 
known were on friendly terms.  Why the Indian turned 
murderer probably no one but himself knows and he has not 
said.