ArizonaRealCountry.com 17 November 2017 murders and got a detailed description of what he had purchased in the way of supplies and which horses he had with him. Munds left word at the store warning Payson citizens to stay clear of the Mogollon Rim as the posse would be up there hunting the fugitive. Riding to the base of the mountains, the posse made camp. Then riding to the top of the mountains they found the fugitive’s camp. Three hobbled horses were there and an abandoned campfire. A large flat rock had been placed on the ashes. The posse spread out, leaving two men to watch the hobbled horses and the abandoned camp in case Bishop returned. Someone slipped away with one of the fugitive’s horses despite the guard. The Wingfield’s had some luck during the search. They found fresh, unshod horse tracks on one trail and they measured the same as the fugitive’s horse. They followed the tracks until they lost them at a spot where a herd of sheep had been. Next day the posse went to the spot where the sheep had been and picked up the trail again. They followed it but it seemed to go in circles. Two of the men spotted a rider they thought was Bishop during this search but he dashed into a thicket and they could not get close enough to challenge him before he disappeared. The next day the posse went to the thicket. There they found that Bishop had turned his horse loose, taking his saddle and bridle with him, but they couldn’t find any tracks leading out of the area. The horse they found was the one that had been taken from the fugitive’s camp. It had been ridden hard and was played out. Apparently, another horse had been hobbled in the thicket and Bishop had switched horses. He had padded the fresh horse’s hooves when he rode away, leaving no trail behind. By now Munds was certain Bishop had accomplices in the area. Later that day, the posse ran across two men camped near East Clear Creek Canyon in a secluded spot. They told Munds they had just ridden in from New Mexico. He suspected them of bringing horses and supplies to Bishop and arrested them. The Wingfield’s took them to jail in Flagstaff for questioning. Heavy rains hit the area. The men were exhausted. The Wingfield’s had returned from Flagstaff with bloodhounds but they could pick up no scent of the killer. A Sheepherder’s Tip A sheepherder rode into camp one day and told of a man seen in remote Chevelon Canyon. The posse went into the canyon and found fresh tracks and an abandoned camp. A large flat rock had been placed on the ashes. Again, they could find no tracks leading out of the canyon. Bishop had again padded his horse’s hooves. The posse had dwindled to Munds, The Wingfields, Dolph Willard and two others. Munds had sent the others home, exhausted. They rode into Winslow and then to Heber but no trace of Bishop could be found. Munds finally concluded Bishop had reached the border and had gone into New Mexico. The sheriff caught a stage to the border and then a train to Albuquerque. There he learned that a man had attempted to hold up a train near Clayton and had been shot by the conductor. The shot nearly took his arm off. The bandit was taken to prison in Santa Fe. Munds went to Santa Fe and talked to the prisoner who thought he might die from his wound. The man said his name was Tom Ketchum alias “Black Jack”. Munds sent for extradition papers from Governor Murphy but when he took them to the U.S. Marshall in charge of Ketchum, he refused to accept them. Photos were taken of the prisoner and Munds went back to Prescott. Captain Boyd in Camp Verde positively identified the man as the one who murdered Rogers and Wingfield and shot Boyd in the leg. Munds returned to Santa Fe. New Mexico Governor Ortero refused to extradite Ketchum due to his wound and his frail condition from blood poisoning. He said he believed Ketchum would be convicted of the train robbery along with other crimes in New Mexico and would hang for them. Bishop is “Black Jack” Munds talked to Ketchum but “Black Jack” would not admit to the Camp Verde Killings. Munds returned to Prescott. On April 27, 1901, Munds received a telegram from Governor Ortero. It said Ketchum had been convicted of the train robbery and executed by hanging the previous day. It was some 21 months after the Camp Verde murders when they hung 37-year-old “Black Jack” Ketchum. It was not a neat hanging. When Ketchum reached the end of the rope it yanked his head off of his body. Only the hood kept the head from rolling away from the body below the gallows. A doctor pronounced Ketchum dead and then agreed to sew the head back on before the burial. “Black Jack” was placed in a white painted coffin and buried in an almost unmarked grave a short distance outside of Clayton, New Mexico. The murders at Camp Verde were answered for in a particularly gruesome manner at the end of a rope far from Arizona Territory where they occurred.