Ada Humes, the heroine of many romances…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

91, Issue of The Enterprise Ada Humes, the heroine of many romances in Silver City, and the New Mexico penitentiary, where she passed a few months, is now in El Paso, where she is pounding a piano in one of the saloons. The fair Ada’s reformation evi- dently did not stick. There was a killing up at Clifton last w^ek. It seems that a Mexican interfered with a monte game which was under the patronage of Curley Bill. Mr. Bill, at the time, was not present, being at his room seeking rest after an arduous day’s work. Some officious friend woke Mr. Bill up and told him about the trouble. He re- paired to the saloon where the game was lo- cated, hunted up the Mexican who had made the trouble and remonstrated with him for creating a disturbance, and thereby breaking his rest. The Mexican resented the remon- strance and showed fight, whereupon Mr. Bill was compelled to knock him down. When he recovered his feet he put his hands in his pockets, but whether to draw a gun or to pull out a handkerchief with which to wipe away his tears will never be known, for in self-defense Mr. C. Bill pulled his gun and killed the Mexi- can. A coroner’s jury subsequently found the facts of the lamentable, to the Mexican, trans- action to be as stated above, and discharged Mr. C. Bill from custody. Kingston Shaft.