ARIZONA SILVER BELT NEWSPAPER Globe, Gila Co. Az November 13, 1891 In the case of Lt. C.P. Johnson, U.S.A. who has been committed by Justice Louis Reashau to the Graham county jail without bond, to await the action of a grand jury in that county for the murder of Henry R. Barry in the town of Maxey, October 21,1891, the Graham County Bulletin reports that on the 26th application was made to Court Commissioner John Blake by Francis J. Heney for a writ of habeas corpus for the purpose of obtaining bail for his client, which was granted and on the following day a hearing was had and the prisoner released upon a bond in the sum of $15,000, Francis J. Heney, J.T. Fitzgerald and Lt. McDonald being sureties. The evidence shows that both men had been drinking and Johnson had been treating everybody in the house; one time he said, "come up you desperadoes and take a drink, I'm something of a desperado myself." Johnson was behind the bar in Reahy's saloon when Mr. Berry and James Davis walked up towards the counter from the direction of the restaurant at the end of the room. Johnson invited them both to take a drink, about the time they were in the act of drinking, Johnson said something about being a crack shot and remarked that he could shoot the fringe off a young man's hat without hurting his head." At that point Lt. Johnson aimed at the hat of Mr. Berry, shooting him in the head. ******************************************************** Dr. Warnekros, the Tombstone dentist has been held to await the action of the grand jury for the death of Howard Herring supposed to have resulted from an overdose of cocaine. The doctor was released on bail. **************************************************** 12/21/1891 A sanginary encounter took place on Sunday last in the boarding house at the Rescue mine between Thomas Floyd, a miner and Charlie Sing, the Chinaman cook employed by the company, resulting in Floyd's being stabbed a few inches and to the right of the left knee cap. The large artery was cut and caused death in a very few minutes. Thomas Floyd and his partner Bernard King who lived not far from the boarding house were preparing to start on a trip and having no bread then asked Mr. Kimple and then Larry Ryan who passed their cabin to get bread for them from the Chinaman. Both men on their return that the Chinaman refused to give them bread and applied an insulting epithet to Floyd, charging him with stealing his quail. Floyd at once left the cabin saying he was going to see the Chinaman. King and Ryan testified that they did not see Floyd in possession of a pistol while Kimple swears that Floyd put on a gun before he started. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Sultan and their three sons, Harry, George and Edgar who had accompanied Supt. L.J. Webster to the mine, were the only witnesses to what occurred from the entry of Floyd into the dining room until the pistol was drawn. Mr. and Mrs. Sultan were sitting at a table near the door opening into the kitchen where the Chinaman sat peeling potatoes and after some remarks about quail, commenced striking the Chinaman with his fist. He struck him ten or twelve times before Mr. Sultan reached the door intending to stop the quarrel. As Mr. Sultan reached them, Floyd stepped back and drew his pistol when the Chinaman caught his arm diverting in the direction of Mrs. Sultan. Mr. Sultan, alarmed for the safety of his wife hurried her out of the building and there was no witness to what transpired then. When Supt. Webster and mine foreman Lorin Lynch entered two or three minutes later, Floyd lay dying on the floor in a pool of blood. At the coroners inquest, it was determined that the Chinaman acted in self defense and was discharged. ******************************************************** The burial of Jeff Bramlett in the Globe Cemetery and the farce of issuing a warrant for his arrest in the death in Yavapai County was played on by the sheriff producing a man representing himself as a twin brother of the dead Jeff. The arrival of Duputy Sheriff Benbrook Wednesday afternoon having in custody the man who impersonated Jeff Bramlett caused no little stir in the supernatural resurection of Bramlett. ******************************************************** The Riverside stage driver brought information Monday evening, that the south bound stage had been held up the night previous by a lone highwayman and the express box was taken. We append a letter from T.A. Lonergan who was a passenger of the coach that was halted, written to W.G. Pendleton and E.F. Kellner and Company agents here for Wells Fargo and Company. Mr. Lonergan writes: "Asehliman, Young, Atkins and myself were in the body of the coach with Mr. Berray alongside of the driver Lee Middleton. At half past 10 o'clock Sunday night when we were about 9 miles from Riverside and about 100 yards from the summit, we were suddenly startled by the stern command "halt" and looking out saw a man on the roadside about 10 feet from the coach with a pistol leveled. He said "step out of the box." He said "throw it out and be damned quick about it." Lee got out and threw it on the ground and noticed the man had two pistols, one pointed at him and the other at the coach. The robber was a white man, had no mask and wore no spurs. We did not see any confederates. It was too dark to identify the man. ************************************************************ The account of Mart Sanders death as published in the BELT of the 12th is wrong in almost every particular. The murderer was first heard of a Letterett's on the Verde where he stole a horse, saddle, bridle and gun. He was pursued and overtaken by Big Gorge on the east fork of the Verde but escaped by fleeing into a thick brush taking his gun but leaving his shoes. More people then joined the search, tracked him down Sycamore Creek when he fired the shot that killed Mart Sanders. Mart had left his home on Upper Tonto for Pine with a four horse team and had roached Sycamore Creek and is presumed that when the pursued heard the team coming, he determined to get a horse in order to expedite his flight. He was unsuccessful in getting the horse but killed a fine young man, which has cast a gloom over the entire community. The assassin has never been seen since. He was without doubt in ambush as the shot struck Mart in the back going entirely through him. From all appearances Mart had no warning and when hit fell backwards into the wagon. The horses took flight and ran away but were stopped by a gentleman named Brown who was on his way from Pine to Payson. It is supposed that the murderer was in pursuit of the team but seeing Brown he knew that he was fouled in this and still continued his flight afoot. The murderer as near is as known is about six feet in height, raw-boned with a short crop of dark beard, without hat, coat or shoes. ********************************************************** January 1, 1892 Information was received here Wednesday that the stage from Riverside to Florence was again held up the evening previous about eight miles beyond Riverside and within 200 yards of where the robbery of Dec. 20 occurred. The highwayman pursued the same tactics as in the first robbery. Only one man appeared and after halting the stage, ordered the driver Mr. Goff to throw out the box and then demanded the bullion with an assurance that suggested a knowledge that it was there. The driver reluctantly complied and the robber asked if there was any registered mail aboard. Goff informed him there was a lot of mail on the coach but he didn't know about anything that was registered and he was ordered to drive off. Sheriff Thompson and Deputy Pemberton accompanied by two Indian scouts started Wednesday night for the scene of the robbery, where they were met by Deputy Marshall Drais and Sheriff Trueman of Pinal County. In order to elude pursuit the highwayman had obscured their tracks and great difficulty was experienced by the officers in finding the trail. The value of the booty has not been ascertained. ****************************************************** The finding of the bodies of Joe Miller and Hattie Morgan about seven miles west of Ash Springs in Graham County, January 10, caused much excitement at Solomonville where the inquest was held and the bodies buried. The Graham County Bulletin gives a detailed account of all that is known of the revolting crime and there seems no doubt but that robbery was the incentive to the murder. Charles A. Bailey of Los Angeles, CA discovered the bodies about 2 o'clock on Sunday afternoon and without examining the bodies he rode post haste to Solomonville nad informed the authorities. John Parks and others who preceded the coroners party reached the scene of the murder about 11 o'clock p.m. On either side of the wagon in which they had traveled lay the dead bodies of the man and woman while under the wagon sitting on the frozen ground was a little child, 19 months old, unharmed except a few bruises about the head but benumbed by cold. Two shaphard dogs were nearby. An examination of the bodies disclosed two bullet holes on the woman, one entered the back and came out on the left side below the heart, the other entered the right side of her face. The man had been shot three times. Found in the wagon were two trunks, a letter addressed to Joe Miller at Globe and some food provisions. ************************************************************ 2/11/1892 John A. Johnson sentenced to life for murdering the Clevenger family in the Buckskin Mountains, Yavapai County was sentenced to death along with his partner and fellow murderer Wilson. Wilson confessed to the entire bloody work and Johnson's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1887 but he was recently pardoned out of prison along with eight or nine of the same stripe. The daughter of the murdered Clevingers, who was present at the time of the murder, maintained to the last that Johnson, the man now free, was equally as guilty as Wilson, who was hanged. ********************************************************** May 21, 1892 C.E. Talyor, Dr. and alfred Trippel returned Tuesday from Riverside. Miss Ida Sandford, daughter of Mrs. Frank Howell left this morning for Calfornia. King Ussery was indicted by the Pinal County Grand Jury at Florence, this week and his trial is set for June 7th. W.G. Pendleton who went to Florence as a witness before the Grand Jury in the King Ussery case, returned yesterday. W. House and partner, chloriding the McCormick are doing very well. They have taken out several tons of fine ore. Charles Chapman and William Stevenson have in the "Dime" one of the best copper claims in Globe District. Recent development work has opened up a large body of high grade ore. At San Carlos on the 17th, colored citizens Stevens and Harry J. Miller had a fight in which the former was badly cut by the latter. Miller was brought in last night and is now in the Globe jail. ********************************************************** Howard Livingston arrived in Globe early Thursday morning with the startling intelligence that John M. See had shot and killed his wife at William Gann's ranch on spring Creek, six miles from Salt River in Gila County. The murder was committed on the evening of May 18, shortly after sundown. Mrs. See had separated from her husband some time before owing to his profiligate habits, his association with vicious characters, and for abusive treatment and failure to provide for her and her child. Her refusal to live with him longer is supposed to have been the motive that prompted him to commit the cowardly and brutal murder. He had followed his wife from place to place, importuning her to live with him and failing to regain her favor he determined to kill her. All the circumstances connected with the dreadful crime show conclusively that it was premieditated. For several days he had been hanging around the Gann place where Mrs. See was stopping with her sister. ************************************************************** Acting Coroner, George C. STrong returned from the William Gann ranch yesterday afternoon where he held an inquest over the remains of Mrs. Annie See, who was murdured by her husband John M. See on Wednesday last. Mr. strong had difficulty in securing a jury as nearly every able bodied man had joined in the search for the murderer. It was reported that See had passed Frank Cline's place on Tonto about ten o'clock on the night of the murder going in the direction of his father's home. Mrs. See's remains were temporarily interred on Mr. Gann's place and will be removed to the Globe cemetery next winter. ******************************************************** John Miller narrowly escaped being buried alive under a ton or ore at the Old Dominion mine on Tuesday evening. He was loading ore into a car from a high chute, and while standing with one foot on the shute and the other on the car, the mule started suddenly pulling the car away and causing Miller to fall a distance of ten feet under the shute. In the fall he managed to throw himself so that his head and upper portion of his body escaped the full force of the descending rock. He was considerably bruised but is able to get around. ********************************************************* The supposed murder of Martin Saunders, who was killed on the 10th of December 1891 on the East Verde River between Payson and Pine Creek in Gila County, was arrested in Phoenix a few days since and held to await the arrival of the Gila County officer to convey him to Globe where an investigation will be held. His arrival in the custody of George Pemberton, Deputy Sheriff, is looked for at any moment. ********************************************************* Refugio Ruiz was instantly killed by a tree falling on him Monday morning near Bremen's Mill where he was employed by B.F. Pascoe who has the logging contract. He was bad crushed, his back, shoulder ,arm and both legs being broken and sustaining internal injuries as well. Deceased was an industrious man and his death is deplored by many friends and acquaintences. He leaves a wife and sister in Globe. The remains were buried in the Globe cemetery on Tuesday. **************************************************** Charlie McComas, who was carried away by Geronimo at the time they murdured Judge McComas and wife in Grant County, has been discovered in Santa Catarina, Monterey Mexico, living with a Mexican family. The report that the child was also murdered soon after being captured is more likely to be true. Nevertheless, E.F. Ware, uncle of Charlie McComas will investigate the story in Mexico. ********************************************************** The almost simultaneous annoucements last night of the sudden death of District Attorney J.D. McCabe and probable drowning of George A. Newton in Salt River caused this community a painful shock. Judge McCabe was in his usual good health, apprently, until after supper, when he suddenly became faint and lay down on the sofa. Almost immediately there was a violent hemmorage from the mouth and when Dr. T.S. Collins arrived he found Mr. McCabe extremely weak and beyond medical succor. Restoratives were administered but the patient continued to sink until about 9 o'clock when the end came. Dr. Collins expresses the belief that the hemmorage was from the stomach and that there was in all probability an internal hemmorage into the bowels. Judge McCabe leaves a wife and five young children, for whom the greatest sympathy is felt by the people of Globe. The funeral will take place from the family residence this afternoon at 3 o'clock. About eight o'clock last evening Bob Pringle arrived in town bringing the startling news that he had a few hours previous, discovered two horses at Salt River, one a pack horse with a pack, dead, and the other saddled and bridled grazing on the bank nearby. The horses were identified as belonging to George A. Newton, of Globe who left here on Monday last for his ranch in Pleasant Valley, expecting to reach Pringle's that night, but he failed to appear. A slicker, pair of shoes and spurs, tied to the saddle of the riding horse were also identified as Newtons. His gun was found on the bank where it had evidently fallen from the scabbord strapped to the saddle. The river has been high for ten days past and as the Coon Creek crossing is one of the most dangerous on the river, the apprehension is strong that Mr. Newton was drowned attempting to ford the stream. **************************************************** When the Globe stage pulled out from San Carlos Thursday, the four horses in the team started on a full run and the driver, Ben Steed, unable to check them, jumped from the coach and was followed by passengers, R.C. Brown of Tucson and M. Muller, a San Francisco drummer. ********************************************************** Sheriff J.H. Thompson and Frank Prothero returned on Sunday last, having in custody no other than the redoubtable King Ussery, charged with robbing the Express near Riverside, January 30th and who since the capture of his partner Henry Blevins, has been in hiding in the Tonto country, assisted and shielded from arrest by his friends. Learning his whereabouts from his mother, Sheriff Thompson laid plans for his capture which was successfully accomplished last Saturday morning at daybreak. Messrs. Thompson and Prothero went from Globe by a circuitous route to Greenback Valley and from there to Tonto traveling at night and avoiding notice. Arriving at the Ussery place they awaited developments and were rewarded at daylight by seeing Wallace Ussery, a younger brother of King emerge from the house. The capture was neatly planned and executed and evidences commendable energy and shrewdness on the part of Sheriff Thompson. SEPTEMBER 1, 1894 Gila Co. Az Arrested The unwhipped rascals fleeing before unavenged justice, thinking that in the remote vastnessess of the Mazatzal Mountains they would find safety, failed to take into consideration the manhood and love of justice which ever animates the citizens of our county. Advices had reached the police officers of this county to be on the watch for the apprehension and capture of the robbers that held up the Southern Pacific near Roscoe California last February. The story of the arrest is an exciting and dramatic one. Will Moore had been warned to be on the out-look by the Sheriff. His home is at the very foot of Tonto Basin, the gateway to the famous and picturesque Reno Pass. He, together with Ed Keith, Ivy Crabtree, John Kemp and Chub Watkins, all of Gila County, made the arrest. R.J. Adams, mail carrier from Tonto brought the report to Globe of the capture. He says that the prisoners claimed to have come from Phoenix where they had been for a month. One of the prisoners had "Kid" cut on the handle of his six-shooter. Moore tells the story of this exciting event in the Gazette as follows: "Tuesday monring he learned while at a neighbor's that two suspicious customers had taken breadfast there and had gone on over the mountain, taking the pass road into Tonto Basin. Moore secured the assistance of young Ivy Crabtree and suceeded in passing the fugitives unperceived and lay in wait for them at a favorable spot near his home. The men rode into the ambuscade without suspicion. When called upon to surrender, Hopper, who is only 19 years of age, laughlingly observed," Well you've got the drop on us!" but when he raised his hands as directed he had a revolver in one of them and opened fire upon Moore and Crabtree in the face of almost certain death. Then with rifle bullets raining around them, they turned their horses and raced back the road they came. When the pursuers again caught sight of their quarry, they had turned into a narrow and very rough canyon to the south of the Reno Pass, where it became necessary to abandon the horses. Moore and Crabtree, jumping from the shelter of one rock to another, exchanging occasional shots with Hopper and Thompson, soon ran their men into a rock fortress where they prepared for a siege. Several nearby stockmen were summoned to the aid of the besiegers. Moore shouted to the men in the rocks that they were surrounded and to come out. The only response was in several shots that narrowly escaped his head. This character of warfare proceeded all afternoon. Thompson shouted in answer to one of the many commands to surrender: "We'll die first!". One of the bullets killed a dog that had accompanied Moore. The night on the mountain was bitterly cold but the four watchers kept their vigil, the men in the canyon making no attempt to escape. At the break of day as a summons to come out brought only a defiant answer, the stockmen commenced a systematic fire into the rocks, though only the rifles of the two men could be seen. At last Thompson shouted he had enough and assurances being given of a "square deal" the two left their retreat holding their hands above their heads. In the natural fort were found the revolvers, 44-caliber Colts with which the men had been armed, dozens of exploded cartridges and at least two hundred rounds of unused ammunition. The eighty-mile journey to Phoenix was accomplished without incident till near Phoenix when Thompson and Hopper made an unsuccessful attempt to slip their bonds and escape. The Gazette says further: Detective Breckenridge of the Southern Pacific force, left last Saturday for Los Angeles with Thompson, the captors first desiring assurance of the sixteen hundred dollars reward. Hopper, who is only 19 years of age, is acused of no crime but accompanied Thompson in a boyish spirit of adventure. He will be tried in Gila County for his resistance to arrest. The horses they rode were the same on which they had covered many hundreds of miles in eluding the dozen officers activity on their trail. Both belonged to Thompson, one of them, a gray mare, branded 3 on the right shoulder, having been raised by Chub Watkins, one of the captors. It had been traded for at the head of the Arizona Canal by Thompson. The other was a bay mare branded "C". Their flight from Phoneix had led them to the Arizona canal head, thirty miles thence west to Agua Caliente, 130 miles thence back to Phoenix and after hiding several days at a nearby ranch, they had started unperceived for Tonto. When they started for Agua Caliente, Thompson drew from E.E. Kellner's store a deposit of $180 made by him after the sale of the 500 Mexican dollars, his portion of the booty gained at Roscoe, February 15, last. He had made the sale to two local Chinese merchants for forty cents on the dollar. When captured Thompson had sixty cents and Hopper had but fifty cents. Hopper is a slight, boyish individual, evidently ill educated. Thompson, with due allowence for prejudice, is a hard looking customer. Despite his reputation for shrewdness and cunning he doesn't look as though he had half sense. His eyes have an ugly defect, in twitching upward, making him appear cross-eyed. His age is about 35. Kid Thompson, we are informed, was an unwilling sojourner for two years, in the Territorial lockup in Yuma upon the charge of horse stealing, since which time he has been swinging around the circle until recently trapped in the Mazatzal mountains. ********************************************************************************* Quite a contingent of Globeites are now in Florence having business either as witnesses or jurors, before the U.S. Court. Among them are John Murphy, J.F. Montgomery, J.F. Patton, Winthrop House, Thomas Southlee, G.D. Barclay, A.J. Howell, G.S. Van Wagenen on the Grant Jury; and H. Zschoegner, Joseph Teal, C.W. Schmidt, William Jones, J.B. Henry, Leroy Ikenberry, J.w. Young, H.F. Blevins, A.V. Star, Frank Jordan, G. Boshe, Thomas H. Nance, Modesto Borques, Jr., B.F. Crawford, J.M. Adams, E. Kenton, S.R. Sands, M.E. Brenner as petit jurors; and J.M. Clanton, N.A. Packard, Jacob B. Lauffer, M.C. Webb, C.M. Hocker, P.T. Robertson, Joseph Schell, E.J. Bonacker and Joseph H. Hamill as witnesses. ***************************************************************************** Joseph Henry and Leroy Ikenberry left Wednesday for Florence to attend the U.S. Court; after Court they propose to go prospecting through Southern Arizona and Mexico. Gila County loses two worthy citizens and we trust that we shall soon again see their genial countenances. ******************************************************************************* C.C. Hackett, mail carrier on the Florence and Globe route, has provided additional stock and vehicles and is prepared to take parties to Mesa, Tempe or Phoenix at special rates, which will be given on application. ******************************************************************************* Samuel D. Worden, accused , tried and found guilty as participant in wrecking the train which left Sacramento, July 11, during the strike has acknowledged his guilt. He is revengeful and declares that he is not the only one who will hang for that offence. When seen in his cell after the verdict, he said, "well I shall not hang alone; you can depend on that, I am going to tell the whole truth about this affair, and when it is all known a great many people will be surprised." *********************************************************************************** Oscar Rogers, late of Globe, who was recently captured after a hard chase, and restrained of his liberty in the Pima County jail on the charge of train robbing, has gained additional notoriety. The term of court at Florence, drawing nigh, at which he will be required to answer for the dire offense, has anchored hope of a happy deliverence withered and deeming it unsafe to trust to the quidities of the law, he concluded to dig out. He had been working for two or three days on a hole in the brick wall, and unknown to him, the guards have been watching him for that time, says the Citizen. He is a genius in the art of jail breaking. The hold started is just above the wainscoting and back of the closet door. By hanging a clothes line with the garments in front of the place and standing behind the door, only his feet could be seen. He used a piece of wire to pry out the mortar around the bricks. The bricks removed were ocncealed in his cell and a neighboring cell. Over the hole at times was pasted a picture. He was enabled to work in the daytime by his barricade and it was by his feet showing under and his mysterious actions that Guard Martincy saw him. The smartness of the prisoner did not stop at a hole in the wall. The hinges of his cell door are hung on pins. When the cell is closed and locked the door cannot be lifted from them. By watching his opportunity, the prisoner broke off the pins one at a time using the door as a lever. This shortened the pins so the door would hang but could be lifted free. He then planned to have the hole completed Friday night when the guards changed at 1 o'clock, one going upstairs to wake the other, he would lift the cell door, clear the hold a little bigger, climb out feet first and drop eight feet to the ground. Then he would mount a horse in waiting what he described as "one of the best getaway horses in Arizona" and get away. The guards were vigilent however and he found out that his scheme was known. **************************************************************************** F.H. Springer has received a consignment of General Arthur cigars, a brand that is favorably known throughout the United States, and for which he has the agency for Globe. He will also receive within a few days, a choice lot of novels, the latest publications. ***************************************************************************** Henry Blevins just now is awaiting transportation to the Territorial prison where his incarceration will only terminate in 1908 and where he will be furnished beef without cost to himself. He, however, will not be considered a deadhead. Labor will be exacted of him as a reciprocal compensation. Blevins was convicted in the larceny of stock on the range in the district Court of Gila County last October. **************************************************************************** J.W. Horrell, an old resident of Gila County died on Monday, October 19 at the family residence four miles north of Globe. He had been an invalid for years and of late had failed rapidly but his death was a surprise, nevertheless, to many friends of the family here. The funeral took place on Tuesday afternoon and the remains were interred with appropriate religious ceremony in the presence of the relatives and friends. *********************************************************************** Messrs. E.J. Edwards, P.T. Robertson and William Rolling, Democratic candidates, accompanied by a party of ladies and gentlemen, have gone to Salt River where a political meeting will be held this evening. *********************************************************************** Sheriff Thompson offers a reward of $50 for the arrest of Frank Slinkard, who broke jail on the night of October 11. Slinkard is of the following description: about 21 years old, no beard, height, about six feet. He is of slim build, light complexion and lame in the right leg caused from a gunshot wound through the leg between the knee and ankle. *********************************************************************** Frankie Gill, the 10 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gill was thrown from a horse last Sunday Afternoon and quite badly hurt. We are glad to know he is recovering rapidly. ******************************************************************************* Frank Armer is rapidly recovering from wounds inflicted by Sheriff Murphy's shot gun. He and Oscar Rogers were arraigned Tuesday on five indictments for robbery and assault to rob to each of which they plead not guilty. The trial is set for November 7. ******************************************************************************** O.N. Creswell is in receipt of a letter from Governor L.C. Hughes thanking him for information in relation to the application for the release from the Yuma prison of the four Indians who murdered young Baker, and stating that he will take the same into consideration should the application come before him for his official action. *********************************************************************** A horrible murder was committed in Phoenix last Monday afternoon. William Shurbet and W.E. Price who had quarrled over a game of cards the previous night at the Miner's saloon, met Monday in front of the same resort. Shurbet apoligized to Price for having struck him and offered to shake hands. Price refused to accept the apology and after calling Shurbet all manner of vile names, drew a 44 and fired, but without effect. Shurbet then started to run across the street and Price following, fired two shots, both of which struck Shurbet in the right leg, and the first of which shattered both bones between the knee and ankle. Shurbet fell and Price rushed upon him and shot him through the body below the right shoulder. The fiend then attempted to shoot his helpless victim through the head but missed. J.H. McClintock, city editor of the Gazette, grasped Price's arm who enraged turned his gun against McClintock's stomach. The latter was too quick for him, however, and wrenched the pistol from his grasp. A crowd of people had congregated and so enraged were they that they would have lynched Price had not the officer who made the arrest, protected him with drawn revolvers. Physicians who examined Shurbet's wounds pronounced them fatal. Price, the murderer, showed himself devoid of human emotion, a vicious brute, for whom hanging is too humane. ************************************************************* On the night of September 26, a street car on the electric line in Phoenix was held up by two masked highwaymen, who robbed the conductor and motorman of two gold watches and $5.70 in money. There were no passengers aboard. The Gazette says: Motorman Huft secured a pretty good look at the big robber and through he recognized him as "Oscar" a piano player whom he met at Flagstaff and who has been at Globe until recently. He is a man of striking appearance, weighing about 200 pounds and his upper teeth are very prominent. His voice is a peculiar one and by that Mr. Huft recognized him. The above is a very good description of Oscar Armstrong, alias Oscar Rogers, lately a piano player in Globe. When here he was regarded as morally unsound and when in his cups was open mouthed and boasted of threadbare escapes when arrested for horse stealing. ************************************************************************* J. D. McCarty died this morning at half past seven o'clock. He had been ill for a long time with typhoid fever and was supposed to be improving until yesterday when perforation of the bowels placed the patient beyond human aid. He leaves a wife, nee Donie Walker and many friends to mourn his umtimely death. **************************************************************** Paul Johnson while repairing a pump Thursday, sustained a painful injury to his right hand. The pump which had been raised about a foot, slipped from its fastenings and Mr. Johnson's hand was caught under a bolt which was driven almost through the hand, between the first and second fingers. *****************************************************************