- [Read The 'outlaw' Overstreet - 1877 as told by Gustav Becker
to give you an understanding of the below newspaper accounts.]
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- WEEKLY ARIZONA MINER
- PRESCOTT, ARIZONA, Page 4, June 7, 1878
- Local Intelligence
- Several persons have been arrested on a complaint made that they were instrumental in causing Overstreet, Spencer and others to be killed near Springerville, last fall. The prisoners are to be brought to Prescott for trial. The military at Apache assisted in making the arrest. United States District Attorney, E.B. Pomroy, arrived yesterday morning from his home in Tucson. Mr. Pomroy is here for the purpose of attending to certain criminal cases that are to be tried at this term of Court.
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- WEEKLY ARIZONA MINER
- PRESCOTT, ARIZONA, Page 3, June 7, 1878
- Local Intelligence
- Price Behan was deputised to go to the Little Colorado, and arrest Juan Sedillo and others on the charge of murder preferred against them. A large number of citizens from the little Colorado are looked for this evening. Some come as prisoners and others as witnesses and escort. Prescott is full of strangers just now, many of whom are in attendance on the District and United States Courts.
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From Jack Becker's Collection
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