The Daily Tombstone., 1885-11-23
A PROTRACTED FKaCAS.
Two DesParadoes Get What They Were Locking for. nnd Thea Want to sZanZ the Man Who AccoIn,notiu. al .ei T'henl.
lNogalrs Froa,ier.

Nogalrs Froa,i-r.
 Thursday night last, at the CCsmo- politan Hotel, conyivial parties were having little time" when man named Charley Cowells, who has fig ured before the Police Court of Tomb stone, began twirling and pitching men about, "just to see 'eIn fall" He gave John Fitzgerald, the hotel host Ter, twirl, but instead oi "coming up smiling" Fitz, came up shooting
 One oi the two shots fired abraded
 the skin on Charley's side; but Fitz, should not be blamed for had shooting in view of the fact that byS;anders say lightning could not have "cought on," owing to the thouGht-like rapid ity of Charley's tremendous gyrations when he saw the pistol This seem ingly settled the Lilarity, and Fitz- gerald retired to his couch in the lit tie adobe feed barn attached to the stables. Between 3 and o'clock Fri day morning, Charley and his run ming pard' of the previous night-a gigantic young packer of the Sonora Land Company and apparently "a hard case" Frank Keylon, just in from San Pedro appeared before Fitzgeralds door and commanded him to come out, keylon rcmalking that he was an officer. At the same time Keylon covered the door with u Winchester rifle while Charley held a 6-shooter in a similar position. Fitz- gerald recognized their voices, divined their purpose to murder him, declined to come out, barricaded the door with sacks of barley, and yelled "Murdcr," till he alarmed the uci. i.hborhouI. James Blades, clerk at the Cosmopoii- l tan, went out 10 see what was up, when the two dcsperadoes covered him with their guns and commanded him to throw up his hands. He dc. clined to do SC, but walked up tC them, tried to reason with them, and proffered to go for an officer to arrss, Fitzgerald. This they declined, de
 claring their purpose to get Fitzgerald out and hang him. Blades went after Constable Frank Sincel. Meantime customs inspector Uambleton, hear
 ing the racket, dropped in, and was it turn commanded to throw up lii
 hands. He also declinedsand offered to go for the Deputy Sheriff, but tn, desparadoes forbade him, and decline,
 let him go at all, but he walked of
 About this time Constable Sincel .nC
 Blades appeared on the sidewalk il
 front of the hotel, where they fount
 Keylon on guard, while Cowells stil
 stood guard over FitzgeralL's doCI
 The officer commanded keylon [,
 throw up his hands, which he declinct
 to do, remarking that he had gun
 Winchester rifle. At this Blade
 covered him with cutoff dOubl
 barreled shotgun, quietly remarking
 "So have l." At thi. kcylon droppe
 his rifle, threw up both h .nds, ana for fear that he did not have then high enough to suit Blades, stood ol tip-toe, reaching upward. He VIZ.
 handcuffed and taken into the h;; room oi the hotel and placed in charg
 of the proprietor, while the officer an Blades went back to tine stables to al rest Cowells. The latter suhmitte reaiily, but while the men were al , sent Keylon walked Ou: of the hote . dipped his hands into pool of water , slipped one of the cuffs off and too
 to his heels. Subsequently, he Obtair t ed arms and . mule and skipped io l his camp on the other side of the lin |, at San Pedro. Cowclls was yesterda taken before Justice Crawford, obtain ed change oi venue, and had an e2 animation before Justice Brichta.