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06 - Dread Apache- That Early-Day Scourge of the Southwest by Merrill Pingree Freeman · Dread Apache- That Early-Day Scourge of the Southwest

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  Speaker 1: Section six of the Dread Apache, That Early Day Scourge
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  Speaker 1: of the Southwest by doctor Merle Pingree Freeman. This LibriVox
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. Apache Kid begins bloody
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  Speaker 1: career through killing of sheriff and deputy and escape of kid.
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  Speaker 1: Apache Kid begins bloody career. I have said that the
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  Speaker 1: surrender of Geronimo terminated the many years of bloody warfare
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  Speaker 1: with the Apaches as a tribe. But the Indian tribes
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  Speaker 1: may and do have outlaws in their own tribe, outlaws
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  Speaker 1: for whom, as a tribe they are in no way responsible,
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  Speaker 1: and for whose acts the individual and not the tribe,
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  Speaker 1: should alone be held amenable. Even the White tribe is
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  Speaker 1: not altogether immune from this infliction. In this class a
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  Speaker 1: mong others was the Apache Kid, who, following the surrender
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  Speaker 1: of Geronimo, with a few lawless followers, made independent warfare
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  Speaker 1: on isolated, helpless settlers, leaving the footprints of his bloody
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  Speaker 1: work wherever he went. The Kid, sometimes called the Apache
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  Speaker 1: Kid and at others simply Kid, was an Apache scout
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  Speaker 1: occupying the position of sergeant under Al Seber, Chief of Scouts.
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  Speaker 1: On June oneh eighteen eighty seven, the kid shot Seber
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  Speaker 1: on the San Carlos reservation, wounding but not killing him,
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  Speaker 1: and this marks the beginning of Kid's series of bloody crimes.
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  Speaker 1: Immediately following the shooting of Seber, Kidd, his squaw and
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  Speaker 1: sixteen other Indians left the reservation. Captain Burgess old time scout.
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  Speaker 1: An interesting old time scout is Captain John D. Burgess,
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  Speaker 1: who came to Arizona in eighteen seventy three to look
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  Speaker 1: after some mining interests for General Cots and Colonel Biddle
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  Speaker 1: of the Army, subsequently becoming a guide and scout for
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  Speaker 1: the government, and in eighteen eighty two was chief of
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  Speaker 1: Indian Police at San Carlos. At the time the kids
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  Speaker 1: started out on his career, Captain Burgos was working some
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  Speaker 1: mines of his own at Table Mountain in the Gallura Mountains.
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  Speaker 1: The officer in command of the troops sent out from
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  Speaker 1: San Carlos in pursuit of the kid and his followers.
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  Speaker 1: Knowing Burgos, immediately secured her services as guide and trailer.
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  Speaker 1: Following the kid and his band, they trailed them through
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  Speaker 1: to Pontano, where they had crossed the railroad and going
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  Speaker 1: up Davidson's Canyon and passing E. L. Vale's ranch had
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  Speaker 1: accommodated themselves to a bunch of his horses. Passing down
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  Speaker 1: the east side of the Santa Ritas, they killed Mike Grace,
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  Speaker 1: an old miner, near Old Camp Crittenden. Here Captain Lawton
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  Speaker 1: with a troop of the Fourth Cavalry, heading them off
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  Speaker 1: and forcing them to turn back. They passed by mountain
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  Speaker 1: springs near the present Vales station and were run over
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  Speaker 1: the Runcan Mountains, where they were so closely pursued that
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  Speaker 1: while in camp they lost all the horses they had stolen.
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  Speaker 1: They now headed for the reservation, which they succeeded in
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  Speaker 1: reaching before Lieutenant Carter Johnson, who was immediately behind, could
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  Speaker 1: overtake them. And here they surrendered, and in due course
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  Speaker 1: were tried and sent first to San Diego Barracks, passing
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  Speaker 1: through Tucson on September three, and subsequently in February eighteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty eight were transferred to four Alcatraz in the Bay
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  Speaker 1: of San Francisco. Subsequently, the United States Supreme Court, having
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  Speaker 1: decided that the trial of an Indian devolved on the
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  Speaker 1: county in which the crime was committed, ordered that all
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  Speaker 1: the Indians sentenced by other than the territorial courts should
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  Speaker 1: be returned to the territory and tried by such courts.
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  Speaker 1: Under this order, the kid and several others were returned
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  Speaker 1: and tried by Judge Kibbi at Globe and on October thirty,
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  Speaker 1: eighteen eighty nine, sentenced to imprisonment at Yuma and were
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  Speaker 1: being taken there by Sheriff Reynolds and his deputy Hunky
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  Speaker 1: Dory Holmes. They were being conveyed by stage over the
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  Speaker 1: Pannal Mountains via Riverside in Florence. In the stage were Reynolds, Homes,
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  Speaker 1: a Mexican who was also being taken to Yuma, the
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  Speaker 1: kid and seven other Indians, and Eugene Middleton, the driver
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  Speaker 1: of the stage, making twelve in all. Killing of sheriff
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  Speaker 1: and deputy and escape of kid. The Indians were handcuffed
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  Speaker 1: together two and two and had shackles on their ankles.
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  Speaker 1: They stopped overnight at Riverside, about half way between Globe
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  Speaker 1: and Florence, leaving Riverside early on the morning of November
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  Speaker 1: two while passing up a heavy sand wash, the pooling
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  Speaker 1: being quite heavy. In order to relieve the team, the
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  Speaker 1: two officers and six of the Indians got out to walk,
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  Speaker 1: the Indians, probably having had their shackles loosen from at
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  Speaker 1: least one ankle to enable them to do so. The
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  Speaker 1: kid and one of the Indians still remaining in the stage.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly the six Indians that were walking seized the two officers,
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  Speaker 1: whom they overpowered and killed with their own guns. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as Middleton discovered what was taking place, drying his
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  Speaker 1: own revolver and covering the kid and the other Indians
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  Speaker 1: still in the stage, he kept him quiet until, on
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  Speaker 1: standing to look back, he was shot through the face
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  Speaker 1: by one of the other Indians. In the meantime, Mexican,
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  Speaker 1: taking advantage of the opportunity, escaped. Middleton, although badly wounded,
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  Speaker 1: was not killed. The Indians, however, evidently thought he was dead.
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  Speaker 1: He was, however, sufficiently conscious to realize what was taking
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  Speaker 1: place and avoided disabusing their minds of their belief, and
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  Speaker 1: in due course was rescued and taken to Globe, where
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  Speaker 1: he finally fully recovered the a Indians, now armed with
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  Speaker 1: a shotgun, a Winchester rifle and three revolvers, partly stripping
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  Speaker 1: Middleton and the two officers, hastened to get away. Stories
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  Speaker 1: of the manner of their relieving themselves of their shackles
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  Speaker 1: do not agree. One story is that finding a blackness
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  Speaker 1: shop near the mouth of the San Pedro River, they
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  Speaker 1: succeeded in cutting the shackles loose. Ten statement is that
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  Speaker 1: finding the keys in the pockets of the sheriff, they
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  Speaker 1: easily free themselves of their irons, and the plausibility of
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  Speaker 1: this is quite evident, as the officers must necessarily have
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  Speaker 1: had the keys with them. After their escape, the Indians
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  Speaker 1: are supposed to have come along the west side of
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  Speaker 1: the Catalina Mountains and passed near the halfway house between
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  Speaker 1: Tucson and Fort Lowell, as their tracks were seen there,
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  Speaker 1: crossing the road going south. End of Section six