This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...tree and hanged. His last words were: "Here goes a New Year's present to the devil." The bitterest feature of it all developed in a letter from his mother in Illinois, written in reply to what was intended to be a mercifully inaccurate account of her son's death, for she told how good he always had been to ...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...tree and hanged. His last words were: "Here goes a New Year's present to the devil." The bitterest feature of it all developed in a letter from his mother in Illinois, written in reply to what was intended to be a mercifully inaccurate account of her son's death, for she told how good he always had been to her. DRAMATIC FEATURES OF BISBEE'S HISTORY Bisbee had its only lynching September 11, 1882. A drunken Mexican returned after midnight to a saloon from which he had been ejected and from the darkness outside shot into the lighted room, wounding a miner, Jack Walsh, known as "Curly," as well as two others. One of the wounded, Jack Kehoe, died from his injuries. The Mexican ran up the canon and was found in a cabin, his identity established by identification of the rifle with which the shooting had been done. The miners of the camp laid off work for the morning to attend to what they considered a public duty. The Mexican was marched up the canon and hanged to a tree near Castle Rock. While the body was hanging, one of the principal owners of the Copper Queen Company, just arrived on a trip of inspection, was driven by Supt. Ben Williams past the swinging body. Horrified by local conditions, he refused to stay longer and hurried away. At least one good was done by the trip. He determined that such barbarism as he had witnessed could proceed only from the lack of education and information, and so he sent from New York a large number of well-chosen books, that served as a nucleus to the splendid Copper Queen Library. The Mexican hanged bad a brother, who started a vendetta against the Americans concerned. A few months later "Curly" was assassinated on a trail near Clobe and his brains were beaten out with a stone. The brother, acco...
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