Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1913-02-08
Maui Would-be Desperados
Near TO Death = Police
Find Riot, with Bad Men
Underneath.
JEERED By CROWD
AS TAKEN TO JAIL
Outraged Gamblers Wrecked
Room Where Trouble DC.
CURED, Using Pieces TO
ChaStise Offenders.

As a result of i the attempted hold
up of a poker game early yesterday
morning, James Payton and Louis
Platt are now in jail at Tombstone,
awaiting trial on the double charge
OF assault to commit murder and as
sault to commit robbery. Both are
nursing severe bruises and cuts, re-
ceived when the hold up miseued.
Officers Kempton, Gibson and VIII
moth were taking supper in the Edel.
weis cafe, ON brewery guIch. at
about > O'Clock yesterday morning.
The meal was suddenly interrupted
by a man rushing up TO the officers
and telling them that there was i
killing across the street" Following
the man the three officers were leas
TO a small adobe house in the rear
OF the Sawyer Pool Hail. ON Brew
cry gulch.
When we got into, the room IT
looked as if we were in the middle
of a riot said Officer Gibson yes
terday. Chairs were smashed. a
table was turned over and half a
dOzen men seemed to be trying to get
at something that was on the floor.
We got the crowd quieted down
little and found that two men, who
afterwards proved to be Plat and
Payton, we're lying on the floor. Both
were nearly unconscious. and / have
never seen two live men so badly
beaten up"
According to the story of the men
in the room, a poker game was III
session. Plat came in and took a
hand in the game He sat in the
TAr tHsfeh "a
standing behind him. Suddenly Pay
ton drew a gun and ordered Hands
up." Most Of the hands went up and
Plat began going through the men.
He had not collected much when
someone made a jump for Payton- It
is not known who made the more
but in a second the whole crowd had
Jumped for the two hold up men. In
the fight that ensued Payton, either
accidentally or purposely, fired his
revolver at Lewis Anderson, one OF
the men in the room, the bullet
striking Anderson in the leg. Some
of the men reported that Anderson
was the first to make move
against Payton and that the shooting
occurred then. while others said that
the gun was discharged in the melee.
The revolver missed fire after the
first shot and no more shots we're
fired.
There never we're two hold up men
who got what was coming TO them
more fully than Platt and Payton.
The second that crowd got started
il was all off. Everyone grabbed
chair and the two were nearly pound
ed to death. Besides being beaten
with chairs they were kicked and
bounded until they were so beaten
IN that they would probably nave
peen killed If the men had not been
taken of. AS one Of the witnesses
said they were walked up on one
side and then down on the other'
During the fight the interior OF the
house was absolutely wrecked ana
there was not a whole piece OF tur-
niture left.
THE men we're taken to the jail
and Anderson. who was bleeding
freely from his wound. was taken 20
the police station, where a doctor
fixed up his leg. Both Plat and ray
ion we're taken before Justice Thomas
Yesterday morning They waived
hearing and we're each bound over
in the sum of $1,000 on the charge %
assault to commit murder ana S0vV
on the assault TO commit robbery
charge. As they had waived their
hearing they we're taken by Deputy
Sherjn Red" Cannon to Tombstone
on the 2 O'Clock train There was
large crowd at the station TO see
them of. and the men we're ieerea
nv the crowd as they boarded the
rain II is expected that they wiz
he given a preliminary hearing this
morning.