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FLAGSTAFF HISTORY

Flagstaff History: Cold snap hit area just before start of hunting season

100 years ago

1922: A phone message to County Attorney F. M. Gold last night from Phoenix advised that one of the horse thieves who broke jail at Winslow was captured after a running gun fight, during which 30 shots were fired. No casualties were reported. All the horses were retaken from the thieves. The wounded gunman of the outfit was still at large along the river, but the posse was in close pursuit, expecting to take him dead or alive before night. This bids fair to be one of the most sensational thief chases ever staged in Arizona. Three men who had stolen a bunch of nine cow horses in Colorado were captured by Sheriff Campbell and Deputy Howard Marine, both from Flagstaff. Campbell set out from here after them, as they were again in this county of Coconino. Three Colorado officers who had in the meantime arrived took the trail from Winslow. Later in the day, Campbell detoured and cut in ahead of the bandits, effectively cutting off any escape route.



All events were taken from issues of the Arizona Daily Sun and its predecessors, the Coconino Weekly Sun and the Coconino Sun.

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