The Weekly Arizonian., 1870-03-26
Horrible Death of a Villain.
FrOn the Auburn lcal.l stars and stripo

From the Auburn (Cal.) Stars and Stripes
 One of the most daring robberies and at tempts to murder ever recorded in the anpals of crime in San Francisco, was sne which was committed on Commercial street between Montgomery aud Kearney on the afternoon of the l7th day of August 1864, At half past o'clock, at time when people were constant Y passing to and fro along the Street named. the pawn establishment of Nr Meyers was en tered by an individual who knocked down IT. Meyers, agfd Is years, sor of the proprietor. and then he ped himself 10 watches, diamonds and jewelry of the value of several thouraud dollars, after which he n ade his escape For long time the police worked assduously to en-. deavor to discover who the perpetrater was gentleman who had arrived from Los Anreles was noticed wearing a singular piece of iewel.y
 which the officers thought looked very much like part of the property stolen from Mevers' store, and upon questioning him, ascertained that he had purchased it from a man in Los Angeles. The piece of jewelry was identified by Meyers ns his property. The officers ob-, tained the assistence of the military, and the
 man for whom they were searching was arrest. ed near Fort Prescott Arizona. At the time of his arrest he had with him carpet sack in
 which there was aquantity of jewelry. The prisoner was tal raw-bontd individual | named John Kelly. He was native of Indiana nrI q
 California with the potorious Fourteenth
 Regiment of Of U s. Infantry This last is mistake the l4th Infantry arrived in Cali ! fornia, not in 1864 n nOr previous to that date. but in December l865-ED. ARIzoXAx.7 One dark night the prisoner broke out of the guard
 house, and, before the sentinel could hail him. Kelly saped from the bluff into the abyss be- low. The prisoner it was supposed, had been crushed to pieces Sn the rocks as he fell, but when day broke and search was instituted fa- what the searchers expected to ind-the dead, mutilated body-no trace of it could be found; so it became evident that Kelly had not sus- tained serious injury, and he had made good his escape. Kelly was next heariof in Santa Rita Niue, Arizona, where he was engaged as blacksmith. For some time he worked at his trade, but he qurrreled with the superin- tendent of the mine, GrOsvener, and tried to stab him, for which he was discharged This is another mistake The blacksmith who at-
 tempted to stab Mir GEosvener, was not Kelly, but Burch, and the attempt was made ia l862. The Santa Rita mine was abandoned pre- gioua to 1864 and has not since been worked The flowing portion of the story recounts the car- eer of Burch, in l862-3, but one contemporary gives it to it's readers as recital oE thu ad- ventures of it's man Kelly subsequent to the date of the robbery on Commercial street in San Francisco. The gtory would be quite in
 teresting if true but the names ofPersons and places and the dates at which incidents are said to have transPirsd show that it is all 6 compounded mistake. The San Francisco po- iipe had, therefore better resums the hunt for Kelly ED AKIzoSAN] From there he went to Tubac, where he killed man with whom he had quarreled, and as the sympa,hies of the citizens ware with ths raurdered man, Kelly thought it necessary to have that part of tho country to escape lynch law. From that place he went to Chihuahua. near which city he murdered his travelling companion for his money. Several months ago he brutally mur- dered family of feur persons near El Paso Del Norte, for the sake ol few dollars. Kelly who had acquired the nams of the "Arizonian Rufian," was arrested by some men fthe city named who wrecked their vengeance on him. They carried him into a wood some distance from the city, where they tied one end of a rope to the limb of a tree, and to the other end tied Kelly by the heels, so that his head hung within few feet from the ground. They then built slow fire under him, and all lowed him to remain suspended until death put sn end to his existence,