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Cain fall, I judge from a blow from one of this party, I do not know what his name was. I saw Cain get up and I started off to go to Fort Whipple to get a force to arrest the party, Bugler Grant accompanied me to the fort. I applied to Col Beach for 15 men and a Sergt he sent the Sergt with 15 men with orders to arrest the party, and bring them to the fort, on reaching the house we surrounded it with intention of arresting the party at the time, I suppose there were about 15 or 20 outside of the house cussing swearing and making a great deal of noise about in and outside the house, I ordered the crowd that was outside to go in the house, with a view to get the whole party, some went in and some startid to run, the ones that startid to run succeeded in getting away and I startid on the east side of the house to protect the window to keep them from getting out one man ran from the window and another one was in the act of getting out I called to him to halt, he jumped from the window and fired a pistol, judging from the flash he fired at me, as I was the only one near him, I snapped my pistol at him twice and it missed fire and the 3rd time it went off but he was too far at that time to strike him (unfortunately) I heard reports of several shots on the west side of the house. I startid around the front door and heard two or three of