Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-03-26

,s thc Hdn cNIdently was nOi Killed Tor m ,, money, as the Earps are not commonl e after that kind of game, and as 1t is vel Q known that Stillwell belonged to the op
 posing faction, il is though, that out O
 revenge for the recent killing o their brother thev in truth killed T him. The body was brought tC the morgue and stripped for inspec tion of his wounds by. the jury, which - shows how effectually he had been rid dled. Any one of the several Vound, 5 would have been sufficient to produce death. One load of seven buckshot lad
 entered the left breast and. ranging
 downward, had passed out at the back
 A bullet, evidently that of a pistol or
 rife, had passed through the ieshy part of the left arm and. entered the
 body just below the arm pit, and
 passing directly, through, came out in a
 line of entranc under the right arm into
 which it lodged. Another load of eleven
 buckshot had shattered the left leg
 above the knee and one bullet had gone
 through and into the calf of the right leg
 while still another bullet, evidently a
 downward shot entered the right leg
 above the knee passed through and into
 the calf of the left leg. Death WAS
 evidently instantaneous although the
 expression of pain or fear on the face
 would seem to indicate that the man
 was aware Of his danger, which he sought
 to avert with his left hand, as it was
 burnt and blackened with powder, that
 being the same charge which entered
 the breast, as was evident from the close
 proximity of the gun when 1t was fired.
 After the shooting the murderers are
 supposed to have continued on the train
 for some distance, and then getting of
 waited for the Eastern bound freight,
 which came along later in the. night,
 Jagged it and returned to Benson, and 1 thence to Tombstone, or continued their
 journey eastward. If the jury can fix
 the guilt on them immediate steps will be taken for their apprehension. The
 examination of witnesses Is progressing.
 but as the Court IS sitting with closed doors, 1t IS at this hour impossible to as-
 certain anything definite as to who were the real perpetrators. and how StiIwell was decoyed, as he evidently was, to his death.
 Frank Stlwell has of late years been known as 8 desperate claIscter and for while was commissioned as deputy sheriff under Sheriff Behan | of COchise county but was removed be-
 cause of discrepancy in his ac counts
 regarding the dispoia of certain license
 money which had by him been collected. | He was afterwards implicated in the
 brutal killing Of old man Horton, whose
 brains were beaten out with rocks from
 some difficulty relating to the famous
 Bronkow mine lying south of TOmoston | and which was at the time of the old | man's death subject to relocation. Hor- ton and others, among them Stilwel, | were in the Bronkow neighborhood in- tending to relocate 1t on the following | morning. Horton most unfortunately l for himself, was the successful one to the
 chagrin of Stilwell and gang who
 determined upon his removal which
 they effected by first shooting and after
 wards brained the old man with rocks.
 A number of arrests were made but be-
 cause of some technicalities in the law
 the implicated ones were liberated
 Shlwell next came into notoriety on tfe
 robbiug of the Bisbee- stage which sc-
 cured in the early part of last October
 by two masked men who not only de-
 mamded and received Wells, Fargoi e1-
 press box and the United States mail
 sack, but also stood the passengers n line
 while they were lost rudely searched and fror, on., f'lssenger a Mr. Rsy, they
 o,,ai,e- near $500, but their largest
 h. vas from the express box which contained s2jO0. One of the robbers was or appeared to be of a jocose turn Of mind and in the use of many cant phrases which were known to be familiar sayings of Shlwell he was pretty thoroughly assured and investigation by the proper officers further convinced them that StIlwell was one, if not the I chief, actors in the robbery and he was arrested and underwent an examination in Tombstone, but again the uncertainty of evidence stood his ( friend as on the elicited facts it was i'm possible to convict him, but he was held n o appear before United States Con- V T. l.. Stiles to answer for rob- a ping of the mails, but on account of the r lilling of the Lowry boys iu Tombstone. a lpon whom he relied as witnesses. he fl in getting bail. which he for $ cited but afterwards meeting with Y Judge Stiles in Tombstone expressed b wish to come back and stand his trial fl md lt ls supposed that such was his T nission here at the present time as the J indictment against him was still pend s ng, but his death as stated settles all al counts. As his body lies in the n norgue he has the appearance of a fine cl ci Ooking man, being about : feet 10 inches b igb and would probably weigh l7O V ounds. He Is said to have come to tc Lrizona from the Cherokee Nation and si pr while kept corral and feed stable cs 1 or near Charleston and at which place aI e worked on hay contract. He was fir uried this afternoon, the coffin being il onveyed to the grave in an express it 7agon unfolloved by a single mourner. 1t The Stockton Independent says that ar he Calaveras is booming to the north fr ard, but aside from forcing consider st Die backwater into Stockton Slough, lA as done no perceptible injury. The
 tanlslaus river has receded several feet.
 i Union Island it is reported that the CT an Joaquin rose three feet Wednesday. te lurphy's and Taylors ferries, near lei TOipstO m fha Stauisfat,e ,-,..-, -..-.-.-., ] -.