Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1882 — VIGILANTES. [ARTICLE]

VIGILANTES.

A Desperate Flglit with Three murderers in Arizona. A recent telegram from Albuquerque,' N. M., says : Arizona vigilantes are again at work, and last week Bill Mulcahy, Jack Kingsbury and Nevada Jim, who killed two Mexicans and mortalty wonnded two Americans at Calabazas, were pursued by an organized party of fifteen. Tho pursuit was kept up with vigor during Monday, and at 4 p. m. the fleeing murderers were sighted iu the distance, the animals they rode being nearly fagged, heading for a precipitous poak. With a yell the pursuers spurred their horsos onward. The doomed desperadoes succeedod by & superhuman effort iu reaching the goal of their hopes, where they dismounted and sought refuge iu the recesses of its rocky sides. As tho pursuers approached they were received with a voiley from the Winchesters with which the fugitives were armed, and one of their number .named Hennessy was wounded in the shoulder. The avengers then withdrew and held a hasty consultation, determining to kill or capture the villains at all hazards. Tho party dismounted and cautiously advanoed, keeping as much as possible under cover until the base of the rocky elevation was reached, when, with a slJowti&f detiiiaoe and a volley from their sixshooters, a rush was made. With the coolness of desperation tho murderers awaited the onset, and once more the Winchesters were brought into requisition. The battle lasted but a few minutes. The ambushed cutthroats fought with a fury born of despair. Two of them were quickly killed, and the third, Nevada Jim, was brought down by a shot through the thighs. The vigilantes spared his life till a rope could Be procured to hang him. He suddenly seized a revolver belonging to one of his dead comrades, which was lying near, and fired at Fallehy, who fell, pierced through the lung. Laughing derisively, ho then sent a bullet crashing through his own brain.