Hachita, Sept…
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

Hachita, Sept. 14, 1890 There was a little surprise in camp last Friday. A man by the name of George Forget was working at the American. Billy Baker came in from Deming and reported that Rich was coming after him, and that there was a reward of $200 for his arrest. George was told this and he said there was nothing against him. That it was a mistake. The next day the Sheriff from Tombstone came after him, but he had gone. The sheriff said about eighteen months ago this man was his prisoner in Tomb- stone, and that he let him have a great deal of liberty on account of his light charge as he was only charged with stealing forty pounds of ore, but George knew his guilt and when the sheriff went in to one of the cells and left the keys in the lock and his gun in the office, George saw his opportunity and locked the sheriff in the cell, took the sheriff’s gun and made his es- cape. The sheriff was very badly disappointed