Tombstone epitaph., 1916-08-20
CONSTABLE JOHN BRIGHT
 IS RESTING EASY

Courtland. who was wounded in the fight with two Mexicans on Saturday near Courtland. is in the hospital at Gleeson. and this morning was rest ing easy. The ball entered the fieshy
 part of the right leg and just clipped 1 the top of the bone. Dr. Stroud says that it will not be long before Mir.
 Bright will be able to be about.
 In conversation with a representa-
 tive yesterday MT. Bright made the
 following statement regarding the af
 fair: .I was notified about g o'clock
 that two Mexicans had been seen com
 ing out of the back window of the
 Davis cabin. went there and found
 that the place had been entered and
 that two six-shooters and a watch and
 a few other articles had been taken. [
 also learned that the Mexicans had ] taken dCTOSS lUt CouulIs hiiiS east of the Leadville property. I got
 my horse and started across the hills
 to try and locate them. I went through
 the hills and finally saw them starting : from the hills in the direction of the Mckinney ranch. started after them oh rtx or forty steps from them. I got of
 my horse and said to them in Spanish [ that I wanted them and for them 70 come to me one at time and give up the guns that they had. The larg-
 CT of the two Mexicans started toward ten steps when he threw a coat he was carrying over his arm and the same time drawing his six-shooter | and saying Yes. you Gringo -
 have got gun" Just at this moment fired at him and he fell. The small CT HEcu JuSl lht liih' HIS pdi V ner fell and he hit me in the leg. I
 dropped and rolling over fired at the : other and he fell but rolled over and |. began to shoot at me again. I emptiei my gun at him and then started to get | away. Iwalked little ways and then fell and as fell the little fellow re loaded his gun and shot at me twice. and I then managed to get up and walk a little farther away. I went sistance tainted two or three times
 while on the way up there and it took me about an hour, I should guess,
 to make the mile. I met some mai. don't remember. who asked me who
 shot me and told him that the on the ground but was not sure that
 they were dead and to be careful. was then brought over here to the ,. hospital"
 The bodies of the two Mexicans
 were brought in Courtland and a cor. U oners jury empanelled. and they gave
 a verdict that the Mexicans had come
 to their deaths at the hands Of Depu. , ty Sheriff John Bright while ic the
 performance of his duty. An e&amla. tion of the bodies of both of tn" de ceased showed that they were battia
 scared veterans. The smaller one @ had no less than four old bullet marks e on his body. while the older one had is numerous knife wounds on various f. parts Of his body The Mexicans were ', strangers in that locality and so lar
 no one has been able to identify them IF Pictures have been taken of the bodies m and an effort will be made to identify
 them. They were buried :;i CcLrr;snd .r yesterday aftefnoon. The stolen ,e property was all found in their pos
 session.
 d Bright made good use of the fly, -e shots that were in his six-shooter, one .a of these killed the alrger Mexican @. and the other four entered the bod, IT. of the smaller Mexican. A mystery bt remains as to how Bright's horse Wa. IA killed unless the smaller Mexican, ii ,p spirit of revenge. killed the horse be ,s fore he died as the horse was stand IT. ing just a short distance from hin .e when Bright left.
 STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.