more from the Silver City Enterprise in 1883

May 14-- Following is the text of a letter Bretton Davis, Lieut. 3d Cavalry, Commanding Post, through the San Carlos Agency, dated 6 May 1883, to John M. Wright, Esq., Silver City, N.M. stating:

"General Crook has two-hundred Indians scouts with him and will try to negotiate a surrender with Chato who holds Charlie in the Sierra Madres, Mexico. Two Chiricahuas, known as Dutchy and Gooday, came in and first denied all knowledge of the boy's whereabouts, but a term of imprisonment in irons brought them to their senses, and they now say Charlie is with Chato."

UPDATE to 1998...Charlie was never found...over the years articles and books have conjectured about his fate, but what happened to him may never be known.