Three hooded men , one tall , one medium-size , and one short , robbed a stagecoach near Wickenburg . Six men , including the driver , were shot and killed . Among them was Frederick Wadsworth Loring , a young writer from Boston who had been sent as a correspondent for Appleton 's Journal . The incident became known as the Wickenburg Massacre . On one occasion Mr. Swilling and his friends were in a bar discussing the incident and the description of the murderers , Mr. Swilling jokingly mentioned that he and his friends matched the description . Mr. Swilling and his companions became suspects in the robbery
Wickenburg Massacre
Wickenburg Massacre
Trinidad Swilling