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The Bisbee Deportation was the illegal kidnapping and deportation of about 1,300 striking mine workers, their supporters, and citizen bystanders by 2,000 members of a deputized posse, who arrested them beginning on July 12, 1917, in Bisbee, Arizona.
[2] Two days later, on February 5, Cochise delivered a message to Bascom asking for the release of his family, but Bascom refused and told Cochise that they "would be set free just so soon as the boy was released". [3] The following day, Cochise and a large party of Apaches attacked a group of unaware American and Mexican teamsters.
The Apache Wars were sparked when American troops erroneously accused Apache leader Cochise and his tribe of kidnapping a young boy during a raid. Cochise professed truthfully that his tribe had not kidnapped the boy and offered to try and find him for the Americans, but the commander refused to believe him and instead took Cochise and his ...
A man has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of a 75-year-old woman in Pearce, Arizona on Friday, Jan 3. According to a press release from Cochise County Sheriff's Office, the woman ...
Colleen Stan, who has lived through one of the most harrowing kidnapping cases in modern history, recently opened up about being held captive in a pitch-black box and being subjected to horrifying ...
Cochise maintained his innocence and offered to look into the matter with other Apache groups, but the officer tried to arrest him. Cochise escaped by drawing a knife and slashing his way out of the tent, [3] but was shot at as he fled. [3] Bascom captured some of Cochise's relatives, who apparently were taken by surprise as Cochise escaped.
In 2012, investigators seemingly brought long-awaited closure to one of the nation's oldest and most high-profile kidnapping cases, solving it after more than 50 years. But less than five years ...
The case was complicated by anonymous telephone calls placed to a local train station the night of her disappearance and a telegram sent to her attorney weeks later from an unknown individual impersonating her. Extensive police searches across Central Massachusetts failed to locate her and the case was never solved. [76] 1935 Li Yuan: 43–44