Mr. Daniels
December 5, 1891
Arizona Silver Belt

Indian marauders, are charged with killing a man last Wednesday 
and wounding another yesterday.  In the mountains, southeast of 
Fort Bowie about twenty miles, Major Downing has a saw mill 
employing three men, among them a young man named Daniels, a 
discharged soldier.

Last Thursday morning Daniels was found shot dead in the brush 
below the mill, where he had been working the evening before.  
The bullet hole entered his left side, well up and came out in 
the back several inches lower.

A pine tree was nearby and from it is believed the shot came. 
The theory given by neighbors is that Daniels had straightened 
from his work and perhaps looked towards the tree.  The shot 
had undoubtedly killed him instantly.  The body was stripped 
above and below the wounds, but was not mutilated.  The pockets 
were turned inside out.

Boot tracks were found adjacent and when the coroner's jury 
from Wilcox gave verdict that "Deceased came to his death at 
the hands of some person, unknown, wearing boots," the 
military withdrew from the hunt, regarding the matter as 
out of their jurisdiction.  Others, however were not 
satisfied.  They made a hunt, four of them and soon struck a 
trail leading away from the scene of the crime.  Those 
tracks have never been made by boots. Moccasins had mistakably 
caused them and they were followed long enough to fully 
satisfy the trailers as to this point.

The ball taken from Daniel's back was pronounced "home made" and 
one of those present declared it similar to that which old 
"Billy" Smith had been killed last winter from ambush .  A 
message received at Wilcox yesterday told that Major Downing 
had been shot in the morning also from ambush and near the 
scene of the shooting of Daniels.  The gang which killed 
Hardie in Rucker Canyon two years is believed to be the same 
killing Smith last winter.  

The body of Daniels was buried Saturday. His home is in Canada 
and his parents have been notified. He was thirty four years 
of age and unmarried.

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