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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Cochise County in southeastern Arizona was the scene of a number of violent conflicts in the 19th-century and early 20th-century American Old West, including between white settlers and Apache Indians, between opposing political and economic factions, and between outlaw gangs and local law enforcement.
The trial of the man accused of kidnapping and murdering a 4-year-old Lexington County girl zeroed in on the main evidence against Thomas McDowell: a partial fingerprint lifted from a window ...
The kidnappers planned to ransom the Chowchilla kids, all between the ages of 5 and 14 years old, for $5 million. But after 16 hours, Ray and two of the older boys pried the roof open and helped ...
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.