On Saturday night, August 19, 1882, Cicero Grimes, his diminutive brother Lafayette, and Curtis B Hawley met in Cicero's photography shop to plan a bold gold robbery. Globe was till dependent upon stages and pack trains as the railroad had yet to reach the frontier town. The trio knew that the next day Andy Hall and Fred Porter would meet the stage twelve miles out of town and transfer a gold box and the US mail to a pack train. Cicero acted as the spotter and watched the transfer take place. He rode back to the chosen ambush spot and told his partners that the gold was on the lead mule, a big roan. Cicero then returned to Globe. When the pack train reached the spot of ambush forty rounds were fired by the bandits, killing the lead mule. The other mules stampeded and Andy was thrown from his horse. Fred Porter ran to Globe and assembled a posse. The bandits smashed the gold box and transferred the gold to their canvas sacks and fled the scene. Andy returned to the scene by foot and commenced to track the bandits. The bandits accidentally ran into Dr. W E Vail who they shot three times when they sensed he was suspicious if their heavy loads and knowing he had heard the shots from the ambush. They then stumbled into Andy Hall and shot him numerous times. Now having committed more crimes than they had anticipated they buried the gold and headed for town. The posse that Fred formed found the Doctor still alive and he described his assailants be he died. One of the posse members recognized the extremely small tracks left by Lafayette. Lafayette was arrested and soon confessed and named his cohorts. After their arrest and a coroner's jury indictment over 100 men stormed the jail and took the three for lynching. Cicero was the only married man and he had four children. An eloquent plea by John Wentworth on behalf of Irene Vail, the widow of Dr Vail, saved his life. He was sentence to twenty-one years in the state prison. Several years Later he was declared insane and sent to an asylum in California as Arizona had no facilities for the insane. The mob hung the other two on August 24, 1882.

grandson of Ebenezer Hawley (Memorial ID 35869346) and Mary Aurelia Wright (Memorial ID 35421956)

brother of Amoretta A. Hawley (Memorial ID 28586812)
Contributor: John Rigali (48686096)