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After spending two nights ( Wednesday and Thursday ) in Catskill, the deputies again headed for the Vermejo to finish their business.

They stayed with a rancher Friday night and by eleven o'clock Saturday morning passed the old Garnett Lee ranch.

Half a mile below at the mouth of Salyer's Canyon was an old ranch that the company had purchased from A. J. Armstrong, occupied by a Mexican, his wife, and an old trapper.

There were three houses in Salyer's Canyon just at the foot of a low bluff, the road winding along the top, entering above, and then passing down in front of the houses, thence to the Vermejo.

To the west of this road was another low bluff, forty or fifty feet high, covered with scrub oak and other brush.

As they were riding along this winding road on the bench of land between the two bluffs, a volley of rifle fire suddenly crashed around the two officers.

Not a bullet touched Cook who was nearer the ambush, but one hit Russell in the leg and another broke his arm, passing on through his body.