Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-03-30
passengers Coming sonth.

FRESNO, Cal, March 29.-The fol-
lowing is the list of passengers fol-
the south and east on the train
which passed this place at 5 P. NJ.
H Howard, New York. G ] Fresse,
Tucson; g G Briggs, ] R Briefly,
Los Angeles.
Auo,ner Bloody Array Near Tomb
TOMBSTONE, March 28th.-The
following is q condensed account
from this evenings Epitaph of a
desperate fight which took place
this morning eight miles from this
city, in which one man was in
| stantly killed and two mortally
wounded: Last evening word was
| received that two notorious char
acters, for whom warrants were
living i'm the Sherff's Office, named
Billy Grounds, alias Billy the Kid,
and Ewing Hunt, would be within
eight or ten miles of town during
the night. Upon receipt of this
information Deputy Sheriff Breck-
enridge organized posse to start
at one or two O'Clock so as to be on
the ground at an early hour in the
morning in order to make the ar
rests. Bye o'clock Breckenridge
had q posse, consisting of Jack
Young, e. II. Allen and John A.
Gillespie ready for action and at
the appointed hour they started on
their miesion. About $3.50 A. M.
| q messenger arrived in town and
| reported to Chief Of Police Nagle
that a fight had taken place at
Chandler's ranch, that one man
was dead and several wounded.
About7 o'clock another messenger
arrived with q note which read as
follows: "Send Coroner out to Jack
Chapdler's ranch; one OF our men
dead, Billy Grounds dying and
Hunt also; Jack Young shot
through the thigh. 1 got creased
in the mech. Signed E. II. Allen"
Immediately the news spread
through the town thst Deputy
Sheriff Breckenridge had been
killed by cowboys whom he was
sent out to arrest. There WAS great
excitement, which was naturally
intensified by the absence of def
mite news of the encounter. There
has been o warrant out for Hunt
for nearly year, but he had never
been captured. The last Grand
Jury brought In three or four in
dictments against him for cattle
stealing. The "Kid," or Grounds,
is also under indictment for cattle
stealing, having been engaged in
the same thefts with Hunt. About
half-past eleven the Chief of Police
returned to town, bringing Young,
his wound admitting Of his being
brought in without serious
Inconvenience; also bringing the
first authentic details of the affair.
Nagle arrived at the ranch about
s o'clock, where he found Gillespie
dead on the ground and Hunt shot
through the breast. His wound is
supposed to be mortal. Grounds
was placed hors du combat by q
charge of buckshot received full In
the face and the upper part of his
head. Life was slowly but surely
ebbing away. Young was wounded
through the front of the thigh,
Allen had slight flesh wound on
the right side of the peck, Breck.
inridge escaping with no serious
damage. The Sheriff's party ar.
rived at Chandler's milk ranch just
at daybreak. 1t was the intention
OF the party to get as near the
house as possible without raising
any alarm, and then wait until
broad daylight before making an
attempt to arrest the parties. They
were frustrated in this by the bark
ing of dogs; therefore, after their
approach was thus heralded, they
determined to proceed to business
at once, 30 they rode boldly up to
near the house, where they dis
mounted. One of the party raped
at the door, asking who was in the
house, which summons was an
swered, "By those who belong
here" They asked the man to
get up and get them some break
fast. They were told to go to the
other house, small house about
one hundred yards below. Think.
ing that possibly the parties they
wanted might be at the other
house, Young and another
man started down. When
part OF the way, on looking
around 1t was found that the whole
party were on the way, when II
was decided that the upper house
ought to be watched. SO Brecken-
ridge and Gillespie returned. About
this time the door was opened and
q man named Lewis, q tesmster,
who was staying over night there,
stepped out Immediately followed
by Hunt, who commenced firing.
Young is of opinion that as many
as two or three shots were fred be-
fore Gillespie was killed. But this
is not certain, for as seon as the
battle opened the entire attention
OF all concerned was too closely
turned to self-defense to note con-
secutively how matters did hap
pen. OF one thing they are Ger.
tain, however, that is that Hunt
shot Gillespie through the left tenn.
pie, when he fell dead in his
tracks. Hunt then fred at Allen.
the bail passing through his coat
on top OF the right shoulder, caus-
Ing o slight crease on the side of
bis neck. Allen then blazed away
and shot Hunt through the breast,
the ball coming cut of his back.
Hunt must have fred several shots
at Breckenridge, who had taken