The men were taken to Clifton, irons…

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captors that he had done nothing but rob stages for years, that this was the first time he had ever been caught. He seemed to take the matter as a huge joke. The men were taken to Clifton, irons riveted on their limbs and then taken to Solo- monville, the county seat. Graham county had just been organized and was in poor condition financially, and so when the United States marshal came down from Tucson and demanded these men, saying he would taken them to Tucson and try them before the United States court for holding up the mail, the Graham county officers were only too glad to let them go. They were tried in ( 17 ) Tucson and given about three years apiece, and it is supposed served their time as they have never come around this section to renew their old acquaintances. When Henry Grey was in the county jail, brought there by the unfounded charge of Dick Huber, and awaiting bail, he noticed one of the prisoners confined there and thought he recog- nized him. After he secured bail and just before he started for Lordsburg he met Jim Randall on the street in Silver city. He talked with Jim and told him he though there was a man in the jail that Jim was acquainted with and asked him to go up and see him.