What is the Halderman case?
Tom Todd
Scottsdale, Arizona
The Halderman brothers, Bill and Tom, were hanged for the killing of Constable Chester Ainsworth and Teddy Moore in Arizona’s remote Chiricahua Mountains of Cochise County on the morning of April 7, 1899. Some curious circumstances surrounded the affair.
Sometime in 1898, a feud developed between 18-year-old Moore and the Haldermans that involved two sisters, Rena and Mary Wilson. Over the next few months, Moore made threats to
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