OWEN PLUMB
Cochise Co. Az
Arizona Republican Newspaper
Feb 5, 1910

Lafayette Plumb received a telegram from Douglas Thursday apprising 
him of the murder of his nephew, the son of Owen Plumb and the 
supposedly fatal wounding of Owen himself at the hands of a gang 
of Mexican woodchoppers.

From the meager narrative received here it appears that Owen Plumb 
drove out into the desert from Douglas to pay off a number of 
Mexicans who he had employed to chop wood for him. He was accompanied 
by his father and young son.  Arriving at the camp, Owen and his son 
went off into the brush where the Mexicans were working, leaving 
Plumb senior behind with the horses and buggy.

What could have happened to cause trouble, the latter did not know, 
but before long he heard the noise of battle, of scuffling and 
tramping about in the brush.  Assuming that something must be 
wrong he left the team and followed in the way his son and 
grandson had gone.

When he had penetrated the brush to where the men had been working 
he found Owen apparently just fallen and over him the gang of 
Mexicans were fighting to kill him with their axes.  The boy lay 
some distance away evidently dead.

Before the old man had time to recover from the first shock of 
horror, one of the Mexicans saw him, and the entire crowd ran to 
attack him, apparently maddened to the point of animal ferocity.  
He turned and fled and after a long chase managed to hide until 
his pursuers were gone.

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