Ben Crawford Killed In Graham County
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

Bruesch offer- ed to give bonds and appear which was refused and he was given the option of paying or going to jail. He accordingly paid the $17 for which he holds a receipt.” From the May 30, 1890, Issue of The Enterprise Indians Out Ben Crawford Killed In Graham County Information was received at Fort Bayard Tuesday evening of the killing of Ben Craw- ford, ex-sheriff of Graham county, by Indians in southern Arizona. So far the details are quite meager, but seem to be reliable. Ben was traveling through the mountains, and he and his companion were both killed. A telegram received yesterday by Col. A. E. Head, at Deming, states that Indians ran off five horses from the herd on the Animas, near the Gray ranch. The men, employed by the company, were holding 1,600 head of beef steers for shipment, the horse herd was a short distance away; the Indians fired on the horse herder cutting his saddle and trappings with bullets and driving him off. The men on the beef herd were too busy with the steers to inter- fere with the Indians. They took what horses they wanted and hunted new pastures.