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Andy Hall with a bullet in his thigh followed the trail of the robbers. He was on foot and as he had not been able to see who shot him, may have believed it was Apaches.
Hall caught up to Grimes and Hawley at a spring. He apparently was not suspicious of the two men as he agreed to go into Globe with them. Along the way Grimes and Hawley believed that Hall was becoming suspicious and when the opportunity presented itself they opened fire on him shooting him eight times.
Grimes and Hawley then went into Globe after burying the money they had stolen.
In the mean time, Frank Porter had made it to Globe and notified the sheriff. Sheriff W.W. Lowther quickly organized a posse and notified U.S. Marshal J.P. “Pete” Gabriel about the robbery.
The posse rode out to the crime scene. There they found some spent rifle shells and an unusually small boot print. Continuing along the trail, it was not long before they found the body of Andy Hall. He had been shot eight times in the chest. The posse loaded up Hall’s body and rode back to Globe.
Marshal Gabriel was at the Silver King Mine when he received the news of the robbery. Gabriel was a good friend of Andy Hall’s. He hurried into Globe anxious to capture the fiends that had murdered his pal.
Upon talking to some of the officers and citizenry in Globe, Lafayette Grimes became a person of interest as it was well know that he had small feet. He wore a size 5 boot. He became a serious suspect after it was found out that Grimes had borrowed a rifle from one of the local law officers D.B. Lacey, the day before the robbery.
Lafayette rode with the Globe Rangers and they would be issued special rifles from the armory when they were called for duty, usually when there was a problem with the Apaches. He returned the gun without cleaning it and Lacey noticed it had been fired.
The empty bullet shells found at the scene of the robbery matched those from the gun Grimes had borrowed. Gabriel along with Lacey and a deputy named Lewis rode to the Mack Morris Mill whereLafayetteworked. He was arrested without incident.
Gabriel interrogated Lafayette and got him to confess, implicating Hawley and his brother Cicero. He told Gabriel thatCicerohad nothing to do with the murders. On the way back to Globe, Gabriel placed Grimes at the Golden Eagle Mill under heavy guard.
He did not want Hawley and Cicero to know that their accomplice had been arrested especially if there was still a chance they could recover the stolen money. Lacey and Gabriel along with Norman Slater rode out to Hawley’s cabin outside of Globe.
It was night when they arrived at the cabin. Lacey knocked on the door and it was answered by Hawley holding a gun in his hand.
At that moment Marshal Gabriel shoved his Winchester through the back window of Hawley’s cabin and ordered him to raise his hands. Hawley obeyed the command after dropping his weapon.
Gabriel, Slater and Lacey then took Hawley prisoner and went to pick up Lafayette Grimes. Gabriel intended to take his prisoners to Florence as he feared they would meet up with “Judge Lynch” if they returned to Globe where they soon found themselves anyway.
On Wed. evening as the sun was going down, a large crowd of armed citizens stormed into the Globe jail and ordered Sheriff Lowther to turn his prisoners over to them.
Lowther convinced them to call in Justice of the Peace George Allen and hold an immediate trial. The crowd agreed and a trial was held at Stallo’s Hall.
Justice Allen ordered that the prisoners be remanded to the grand jury for trial. The armed crowd overruled him and said that Hawley and Lafayette Grimes would be hanged.
Cicero Grimes was spared because of the pleadings of his wife and a young man named John Wentworth. Wentworth acted as the spokesman for the widow of W.E. Vail. He implored the crowd to let Cicero Grimes live on behalf of his wife and four innocent children.
Hawley asked if they could be given time to write out their wills and a letter to their loved ones. In return Lafayette Grimes and Hawley would lead them to where the stolen money was hidden.
Hawley and Lafayette Grimes led a group of the vigilantes to the spot where they had hidden the money. It was found in three different piles as the thieves and murderers had divided it up. Now the vigilantes knew thatCicerohad indeed been involved in the robbery.
When they returned to Globe Hawley and Lafayette Grimes were allowed a few hours to draw up their wills and write to their loved ones. While the vigilantes were out of town, Sheriff Lowther fearing that the vigilantes could change their mind about Cicero Grimes, had takenCiceroout of the jail and hid him in a cave outside of Globe.
Hawley and Lafayette Grimes were marched to a large sycamore tree in front of St. Elmo’s Saloon.
It was said that Hawley’s noose had been tied loosely and that he could be heard a block away gasping for breath. The “Globe Fiends” as they became known had met their fate.
Cicero Grimes was tried and convicted of conspiracy to rob the Wells Fargo stage. He was sentenced to serve 21 years at the Territorial Prison inFlorence.
After serving a short period, there were reports that he was being driven insane in the newspapers. Some of the papers believed he was faking his mental state and printed articles saying so. After a few monthsCicerowas sent to the insane asylum inStockton,California.
Grimes escaped from the asylum in October 1883 and was never seen again. A man named Robert Alexander was arrested in Oregon on March 1884 and was thought to be Grimes but was identified by an Arizona Territorial Prison guard as being the wrong man.
Sheriff Lowther failed to win re-election possibly due to his failure to stop the lynching and another lynching a few months later in Pioneer. Lowther tried some mining ventures with other partners and traveled to Honduras for a while. He was shot and killed while serving a warrant for an assault.
J.P. Gabriel was re-elected sheriff of Pinal County and became a well-respected lawman in Arizona. He would go on to be involved in Florence’s most notorious shootout in the Tunnel Saloon.
Andy Hall will always be remembered as one of the courageous men to be the first down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon with the Powell Expedition. He also was the first Wells Fargo messenger to be killed in the line of duty in Arizona.
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