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Heath person

born: [1891-01-01,1892-01-01)died/dissolved: [1891-01-01,1892-01-01)🌐 Q19672750id: p_heath_693b23

also known as: Heath

Probable 70%
Summary:  A saloon-keeper with sixty-odd indictments in Dallas who organized the Bisbee holdup and was later lynched.
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arrested_for

holdup of the company's store at Bisbee, robbery and murder
cited from On the following day the writer renewed an… (1891)
he bar as usual. The victim was the railroad man who had testified against the rustlers. He had been shot in the back of the head. No one knew who did the shooting, and no arrests were made. It was the way the rustlers got even with …

captured_by

unknown
cited from The man Campbell, superintendent of the… (1891)
The man Campbell, superintendent of the company’s property, of whom mention is made above, become afraid of the rustlers and kept an armed guard around his house at night while the writer was on town. On two or three occasions the miners had …

charged_with

sixty-odd indictments in Dallas
cited from On the following day the writer renewed an… (1891)
he bar as usual. The victim was the railroad man who had testified against the rustlers. He had been shot in the back of the head. No one knew who did the shooting, and no arrests were made. It was the way the rustlers got even with …
indictments in Dallas
cited from On the following day the writer renewed an… (1891)
On the following day the writer renewed an old acquaintance with Heath and Kelly, saloon- keepers, who had sixty odd indictments against them in Dallas. Through them he met several of the gang and was introduced as an old friend, which under th…

died_in

cited from During our second day in Clifton, Kid… (1891)
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 m…
cited from On the following day the writer renewed an… (1891)
On the following day the writer renewed an old acquaintance with Heath and Kelly, saloon- keepers, who had sixty odd indictments against them in Dallas. Through them he met several of the gang and was introduced as an old friend, which under th…

killed_by

lynch mob in Tombstone
cited from On the following day the writer renewed an… (1891)
he bar as usual. The victim was the railroad man who had testified against the rustlers. He had been shot in the back of the head. No one knew who did the shooting, and no arrests were made. It was the way the rustlers got even with …
a mob
cited from During our second day in Clifton, Kid… (1891)
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 m…
mob
cited from On the following day the writer renewed an… (1891)
On the following day the writer renewed an old acquaintance with Heath and Kelly, saloon- keepers, who had sixty odd indictments against them in Dallas. Through them he met several of the gang and was introduced as an old friend, which under th…
mob in Tombstone
cited from Silver City Enterprise — 1891 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1891-09-04 (1891) · +1 more
he bar as usual. The victim was the railroad man who had testified against the rustlers. He had been shot in the back of the head. No one knew who did the shooting, and no arrests were made. It was the way the rustlers got even with …

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saloon-keeper
cited from On the following day the writer renewed an… (1891)
he bar as usual. The victim was the railroad man who had testified against the rustlers. He had been shot in the back of the head. No one knew who did the shooting, and no arrests were made. It was the way the rustlers got even with …
saloon-keeper
cited from On the following day the writer renewed an… (1891)
On the following day the writer renewed an old acquaintance with Heath and Kelly, saloon- keepers, who had sixty odd indictments against them in Dallas. Through them he met several of the gang and was introduced as an old friend, which under th…

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