Weekly journal-miner., 1920-11-03

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 Such was the card that Powers had treasured as a souvenir of the old days of the west when the hang ing of highwaymen and other law breakers was a public spectacle.
 Humor was lent to the historic hanging by the presence of ia nous prizefighter, John L. Sullivan. One of the doomed men, Mulligan does not remember which, spying Sullivan among the crowd of spec tators, stepped to the edge of the scaffold platform where he and the others were awaiting their death, and pointed his finger at the pugilist. "You think you're big man." he said. because you can knock out a
 nan at one lick. Well, this shrunk- en-up little sheriff down there''- pointing to the sheriff, standing ready to let the trap Tall, fin few minutes that little feller is going to knock out five men at one lickP And he stepped back to his place. In the early part of March, 1884, Daniel Kelly, Red Sample, James Howard, Daniel Dowd and William !De1aney started out from Clifton, Ariz., to Bisbee. On the road they fell in with John A. Heath, who had recently started a saloon and dance l hall in Bisbee, and the six rode into the town together.
 Reaching Bisbee, Heath proceeded
 to his saloon. In few moments, wild shots were heard in the street, and passers-by rushed into the sa- loon. into Mrs. Roberts French Restaurant, and other places tofavoid what Mulligan described as the lit eral rain of bullets. The five men were attacking the Constanado store on the main street, keeping the street clear by an uninterrupted fire from their guns.
 Mrs. Roberts, proprietor of the French Restaurant, thrust her head out of the door of the cafe, and was killed. After that, people stayed safely inside. and the men proceeded with their crime, killing Constanado and rifling the store. The crime over, they leaped to their horses and
 got out of the town as fast as they could. In a few moments the sher- Tiff and his posse were after them' but the men escaped.
 Delaney was shortly arrested back of Lomas Prietas, where he was working on the Lomas PrietaS mine. The others were caught on the Blue River in Greenlee county. iAr five were taken to Tombstone, where they were hanged with public
 ceremony on March 28, the sheriff Iissuine invitations to his friends and to prominent citizens. The former holder of the present invitation, Sl Bryant was an employee in the Tombstone jail at the time of the execution. He later moved to the Imperial valley in California, where he made comfortable fortune in Iranching, and was in Los Am geles when last heard from, accord ing to Mulligan.
 A tragic sequel to the story of the execution, illustrates how frontier IlyncI. law sometimes worked un- Justly.
 The proprietor of the saloon and dance-hall, John Heath, who had met
 ,he five criminals on the road to Gisbee and ridden ill with them, was suspected of complicity in the crime because of his having been seen in their company
 He was arrested by the sheriff in
 Bisbee and placed in jail. A crowd of incensed citizens gathered and, holding the sheriff and his deputies up, for,ed the cell in which Heath Was held, and took him out of town. There they hanged the unfortunate man to a telephone pole. Accord ing to Muligan, Heath was innocent of any complicity in the murders. and was lynched with only the heated suspicious Of his accusers for ievidence.