Sacramento Daily Record Union

The Killing of Captain Crawford.

Chicago, February 22d.—The News' El Paso special says: Andrew Ames, a Government scout, who was all through the recent Indian outbreak, gives additional facts connected with the killing of Captain Crawford by the Mexican troops. Ames says that he met Perez and his forces near Las Varas, about eighty or a hundred miles east of where Crawford was killed, on December 31st, and located for him the position of both Crawford and Davis, and warned him to be very careful. On January 5th Ames met twenty-three Mexican scouts of Perez' command following on Davis' trail, and told them what trail they were following, but they heedlessly continued on until they reached Piedras Verdes, about two miles west of Casas Grandes. The scout says that there was no occasion for an engagement had not the Mexicans sought it, and he declares that Perez knew well whom he was attacking when he fired upon Crawford's command.

As regards the claims made by Perez in his report that the United States Indian scouts had been committing depredations in Canton de Guerrero, Ames says he knows that statement to be false, as both Crawford's and Davis' commands were one hundred miles or more away from that place. When asked what he thought about Geronimo's surrender, Ames replied that the Chief had promised to surrender by the 21st inst., and even should he fail to do so, it would be easy to effect his capture, as he is now nearly on the line coming this way. Ames said that had Crawford lived Geronimo and his band of hostiles would never have surrendered, but would have been "good Indians" by this time. If he failed, Davis would have caught and killed them.