Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-03-29
Reporter on the Ground.

TOMBSTONE, March PC
 The CITIZEN representative commits stoned to report in full the hanging of the Bisbee murderers, arrived in Tomb stone shortly before twelve o'clock, | Tuesday night. In order to accomplish the trip between Tucson and this camp, be was obliged to procure a private conveyance at Benson and make cold nights ride of twenty-six miles. Other wise, owing to delayed trains, be would not have reached his destination unti Wednesday evening.
 All day Tuesday was devoted to the business in hand. In the first instance 1t Is only necessary to state that the chief topic of conversation, to-day, on the streets, IS the legal tragedy of next Friday. This Is s matter of no wonder when 1t Is known that a particular oc- currence Is to take place on the 2Sth inst. never before superseded in the history of this country namely the hanging of five men at the same scaffOld. This alone would subject people to unusual excitement, but III taking into consideration the brutal and fatal fOray upon small frOu'ler town, the murder of four respectable citizens, and tbe robbery Cf a mercantile house. it Is astonishing that such excitement does not turn into a panic, far beyond the powers of officials to control.
 There have been, and are still at this writing. grave TumOrs of trouble. There IS a desire among certain class of people here, to have the hanging public, in open view of everybody whose morbid curiosity. or other interests, might tempt them to attend. This. certainly under the circumstances, would be wrong. As Sheriff ]. l.. Ward states. these criminals have friends in the vicin- ity-they assert they have plenty and fl 1t became known to such parties, they would be liable tJ create blood shed. in attempting In a body, and by a sudden attack tO rescue the mqrderers. Such men must be kept away from the scene by high, strong walls
 Another rumor Is rife: The dispOsi- ton for public hanging Is so great. es- pecially among the miners, that threat lluN alAttAE AtEtu AAhut-s tAldA llhL uEAOLt the hour of putting the doomed men upon the scaffold the walls of the jail yard will be shattered by explosives. As the hanging must occur Friday, accord ing to law, there would be no time to rebuild the barrier, and consequently the exhibition would be public
 There IS still another fear in the minds of the reflective citizens. Although Sheriff Ward proposes to see that no one entering the jail yard to witness the execution shall carry firearms, sDecu- lative citizen here, W. NJ. Constable. is now erecting, on private grounds within a few feet of the walls, an elaborate structure, upon which he proposes to seat 600 people. Of course. be intends to charge them a big fee for a seat. The walls surrounding the jail yard are 13 feet high, and Tn order to support bis SIX hundred at that elevation and higher too, he must use some very strong sup ports. Isn't there q possibility of ia tai crash? This, however, Is not the primary cause of anxiety. The murder CTS, as before stated, may have friends. A man would naturally prefer being shot than hung. What If such friends, and good shots, should select front seats on this platform, and just before the drop plant well-aimed bullets through the bodies of the Bisbee desperadOes? This IS possible event, but certainly not probable. The world would be rid, in such case, of ive bad men, but the ob- ject of the law would not be fulfilled. These are the rumors your correspond ent gathered about town
 THE sCAFFoLD. This structure was completed and tried yesterday. It IS pronounced by experts to be one of the strongest and | surest ever erected in the Territory. 1