Hall Brothers
Arizona Silver Belt
May 28, 1896

Dan Neal has been served with a summons to appear at Solomonville 
as a witness in the preliminary hearing of Steve Nixon and W.B. 
Traylor, who have been charged with the murder of the Hall 
brothers in the latter part of August 1891 near Ash Springs, 
Graham County.  The disappearance of the Hall boys occasioned 
considerable excitement and speculation at the time, and the 
search for their bodies was continued for several months in 
the vicinity of Ash Springs by the widows of the missing men, 
and now, to confirm the saying that "Murder will out" Nixon 
and Traylor are under arrest charged with the crime upon the 
supposed confession of Sam Hatch, a confederate, who is also 
in custody and who has offered to turn states evidence.

The Hall brothers, when killed, were on their way from Grant 
County New Mexico to the Upper Salt River Valley to look out 
a range to which to transfer their cattle.  They are supposed 
to have been seen by Nixon and his men when they passed the 
Rail-N Ranch, headquarters of the Gebhard Cattle Company of 
which Nixon was foreman, and who it is alleged, followed the 
Halls and shot them down near Ash Springs and then took the 
bodies back to the Rail-N Ranch at Sheldon on the Gila and 
buried them.  The day named in the subpoena for the hearing 
is August 29, a clerical error, doubtless intented to be 
May 29.


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