During our second day in Clifton, Kid…
source date: 1891
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hey were after- wards captured, and Kelly, Big Dan, Red Sample and Texas Howard were given a judi- cial hanging in Tombstone for the crime. Heath was lynched by a mob in Tombstone for the same offense. He was considered one of the hardest men in the southwest. He died game. During our second day in Clifton, Kid Lewis, a sallow faced boy of about eighteen, shot his girl for some trivial offense. She was mortally wounded, but while she lived Kid saw that she had every attention, and followed her to the grave with a show of profound sorrow. He was not arrested. He was really one of the worst and most reckless men of the whole bad lot. He was very quick to shoot, giving the command to “throw up” afterwards. The writer was afterwards told by a citizen of the Mogol- ( 79 ) Ions, who was in Clifton the same summer, that early one night two men were killed across the river on the Mexican side. About 2 o’clock in the morning the Kid and a pal came into his room to sleep, and while retiring the Kid re- marked: “Great God, this is getting to be a tough country, when a man will give up his life before he will part with $45.” The Kid evi- dently did the “business,” as they termed it. A few weeks after his wife died. Kid was killed on the Gila by Constable Olguin, of Clifton.