Known as the "Boy Scouts."

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVIII, Issue XXI, 24 May 1902, Page 1049

Known as the "Boy Scouts."

That buy seuuts and huuters arc uut confined to the pages of romance is shown by the careers of two Arizona boys, Dick and Alfred Boseha, fourteen and fifteen years of age respectively- These lads, who are brothers, have shown the nerve aud fearlessness of uld Indian hunters. They are crack shots, and have fought Redskins aud trucked down anu captured desperate outlaws.

1 he elder brother first distinguished himself, when only thirteen, by the capture of a notorious Mexican desperado. Meeting the ruffian in a lonely valley (where he was hiding from justice, having just previously committed a murder) Alfred called upon him to surrender. The outlaw, seeing only a small boy, received the demand with amusement. But he ceased to laugh when the lad, observing that the Mexican was taking up his gun, opened fire, taking off a piece of the outlaw's ear, and sending two bullets through his hat. Such marksmanship was too much for the miscreant, who surrendered, and, with a pistol held at his head, was made to ride to the nearest settlement, and there handed over to justice, to the utter astonishment of all who saw the occurrence. A few months later the younger brother performed a similar feat, riding down and capturing a ferocious cut-throat, who had robbed and murdered a miner. With a body of police under the command of their father, the two lads took part in an exciting battle with a band of Apache Indians, who had commenced to raid the adjacent country. In this fight the lads greatly distinguished themselves, escaping unhurti, although there were several casualties on both sides. They are known as the “boy scouts,” and Dick was personal! v complimented on his bravery by the late President McKinley.