Wild West

WHEN JUSTICE KNOCKED TWICE

rizona Territory grocery store owner Fred E. Kibbe and laundryman Albert F. Hillpot left hometown Globe on Sept. 13, 1910, to hunt deer on the nearby San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. John B. Goodwin and William R. Stewart were more recent arrivals to the area. A year earlier Stewart had been dishonorably discharged from Company E of the 5th U.S. Cavalry. In July 1910, on realizing he might be transferred with Company E from Fort Apache to the Philippines, Goodwin had gone AWOL. The former company mates soon fell in together. Dropping by Tuttle Station, a stage stop and watering hole between Fort Apache and San Carlos, the pair had met with owner William O. Tuttle. Impressed by Goodwin and Stewart, and unaware of their sketchy military careers, Tuttle hired them to

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