The copper era., 1908-12-31
Arizona Desperate Said to Have Been
 Killed in Nevada.

perado, has perished as he lived, vi- olently, if a report bearing the brand ot authenticity may be trusted.
 According to the account Stiles was living in Nevada under an as- sumed name when his end came. He also held a deputy sheriff's commis- sion. He had been instrumental in the arrest of a cattle rustler, who re- sisting arrest, was killed by the sher- if. The brother of the rustler vowcd bloody vengeance and swore he would take the life of Stiles vixen oppor- tunity offered. It was not long until chance gave him the occasion he de- sired. Stiles, having business in the country, came to ranch house where he decided to camp. He start ed to put his horse in the stable when he was killed by a bullet from a gun in the hands of the owner of the place. Stiles had deliberately walked into the yard of the dead rustler's brother and turned his back unsus pectingly to the man who had for sworn the life of the one-tlme bad man of Arizona.
 Stiles was one of the salient fea- lures of one of the most dramatic chapters Tn southern AriZona's his tory. Several years ago he partici- pated with Burt Alvord, Bravo Juan and Three Fingered Jack in the hold up and robbery of a train at Cochise station. Soon after he turned states evidence and caused the arrest and imprisonment of his accomplices. With the vaellation that was his pre- dominant trait he decided to rescue the man he had betrayed, and going to the Tombstoee county jail during the noon hour when the sheriff and all the officers except Jailer George Bravin were at lunch, he grabbed a rifle from among several in the office and stuck it's muzzle against the stomach of Bravin with the demand that the latter deliver the keys of the iail or die. Bravin displayed his extraordinary courage by striking the rife downward in an attempt to disarm the desperadO, but the latter pulled the trigger at the same in- stant and wounded George seriously in the leg. He freed not only Alvord and Bravo Juan, but a host of petty offenders who were incarcerated at the time. The Halderman boys were also confined in the jail, but paused in their escape to listen to Bravin, who, lying wounded on the floor, pleaded with them to remain, assur- ing them that they would be caught anyhow, and that they would then be certain of conviction. They harked to his advice and remained, even locking the doors on prisoners who had not yet left. However. they were afterward hanged.
 Alyord and Stiles led the officers and posses many weary chase. Sheriff Del Lewis of Cochise county at one time captured Stiles at Casa Grande, but the latter escaped by tripping the sheriff; and vanished in the night with his handcuffs. Later, Alvord conspired with Captain Bur ton Mossman of the Rangers, and Sheriff Del Lewis to deliver into their hands Bravo Juan. He betrayed his former accomplice by turing him into the neighborhood of Naco, where he had posted the two officers Juan cursed his betrayer as the handcuffs were slipped upon his wrists. Later he was hanged. Alvord served some time in the penitentiary and was pa roled because of his poor health and efforts of former brother officers.
 Stiles was at one time reputed to be the leader ot Yaqui hOstiles. Of ten he made a stealtby trip over the border to visit his wife on the San Pedro river below Bisbee, and for months at a time he recklessly strode about the streets of Cananea. His desperate nature made him immune from capture.
 The ne WIS of his rumored death came in letter to Casa Grande. As Stiles was bred in the neighborhood of Casa Grande. and as his aged mother lives there, the recipients of the letter express themselves as feel ing certain of its authenticity.