The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-04-03
And a Good Man Killed in
 Enforcing the Law.
Billy Grounds and Ewing Hunt
 Go on Their Cattle Raids No More.
Details of the Fight and Casualties.


 ceived word that two notorious characters for wht m warrants were lying in the sher. ifs office, named Billy Grounds, alias Billy the Kid" and Ewing Hunt, would be within eight or ten miles of town dur ing the night or early this morning Upon receipt of this information Mir. Harley or dered Deputy Sheriff Breckenridge to or ganize posse and to start about one or two o'clock, so as to be on the ground at all early hour in the morning in order to make the arrests, which Mir. Harley thought might be done by four men with out resistance. By o'clock Deputy Sheriff Breckenridge had his posse, con. ss,ing of Jack Young F.. H. Allen, and John A. Gillespie, ready for action, and at the appointed hour they started on their mission.
 THE FIRST NEWS.
 Early in the morning, probably about 6:30, messenger arrived in town and reported to Chief of Police Nagle that a fight had taken place at Chandler's ranch, and that one man was dead and several others wounded. MT. Nagle lmmedi- ately got an ambulance and took Dr, Goodfellow with him and started for the scene of action. About : o'clock another messenger arrived with note for Mir. Harley, which read az follows: "Har. ley, send coroner out to Jack Chandler's ranch; one of our men dead. Billy Grounds dying and Hunt also; Jack Young shot through the thigh. got creased in the neck. [Signed] E. H. ALLEN"
 Immediately the news spread though the town that Deputy Sheriff Breaken- ridge had been
 KILLED BY THE COWBOYS
 whom he was sent out to arrest, and there was great deal of excitemant, which was naturally intensified by the absence of definite news of the encounter, and the further fact that Mr. Breckenridge is general favorte with all classes of the peo pe He is genial and socia. in private life and prompt but courteous in the dis charge of his official duty. The parties whom he was sent out to arrest were noto- riously hard cases-thc worst of the type of cowboy rustlers. For this reason Mr. Harley very wisely decided to send out what he considered a sufficiently large force to insure their arrest without resist ance; but careful as he was, and as we'll as he thought he knew
 THE DESPERATE MEN
 he had 10 deal with, he was mistaken, as the sequel shows. The man Ewing Hunt was a young mau, tall and slim, quite sandy complexioned, sandy mustache, and his facc neck and hands badly freckled. It is said there had been warrant out tor his arrest for .early or quite year, but he had never been captured, The last grand jury brought in three or four indictments against hlm, it is reported, for cattle steal, ing. The "Kid," or Grounds, IS said to be quite young man, with round, red face, and of shorter statrre than hls companion In crime, Hunt He Is also under indict- ment for cattle stealing, having been en. gagged in the same thefts with Hunt.
 MIR. NAGLE's RETURN.
 About half past eleven Chief of Police D. Nagle, returned to town bringing Mir. Young, whose wound admitted of his being brought in without serious incon- venience, and also bringing the first au- thentic details of the lamentable affair: MT. Nagle arrived at the ranch about s o'clock in the morning and found Gillespie tone of the special officers who accom- panied Mir. Breakenridge) dead on the ground, and Hunt shot through the breast, the ball coming out through the back, the wound supposed to be mortal. Grounds was placed hors du combat by charge of buck shot received full in the face and upper part of the head, and life was slowly but surely ebbing away. MT. Young was wounded through the front of the thigh, the ball having entered the right side of his pants about six inches below the waistband, rau ging downward across the groin, cutting into the muscles of the thigh just below that point, dong no
 injury to the groin whatever. Mir. Allen had slight flesh wound on the right
 side of the neck and MT. Breckenridge fortunately, escaping with no serious l damage whatsoever.
 , THE FIGHT.
 : The party arrived at Chandler's milk | ranch just as the rosy streaks of the morn
 ing were heralding the near approach o the glorious orb of day, but before there was sufficient light to see objects at any ' considerable distance away. It was tn, intention of the party to get as near tn, house as possible without giving any !, !, alarm, and then to await until broad day , light before making the attempt to arres the parties. They were frustrated in thi by the barking of pack of dogs kept a
 the house, therefore after their approach was thus heralded they determined to pro ceed to business at once, so they rod boldly up to near the house, where they :, dismounted and one of the party l RAPED AT THE DOOR, V which summons was answered by askin
 who was in the house The answer came