How Cady Was Killed
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

How Cady Was Killed The following particulars of the killing of Cady is from the pen of Oscar Roberts: “He was stopping alone on Deer creek ranch and was found forty yards from the house with his head all mashed, his body had decayed so that it was impossible to tell how many shots he might have gotten. He was naked from the waist up. Only one bullet hole showed in his pants, and that looked as though he had been shot through both legs about the knees. He was found by one of the Mexican guards prob- ably a day and a half after he was killed, and was buried by the Mexican and Wash Peters. He was stripped and laid on his cook stove, pieces of his flesh adhering to the stove testify- ing to this fact, his ears and nose cut off and head and breast scalded with hot water with which he was preparing his lonely meal. Most of the Indians arrived on foot but they stole twelve head of horses from Deer creek, then went through San Luis pass and secured about twenty more horses at the Lang, another of Head & Hearst’s ranches.