ent  Sheriff  Whitehill  and  Judge  Jones. 
Hines  was  a poor  Irishman  who  has  been  in 
this  part  of  the  country  for  some  time.  He  for- 
merly worked  on  a section  for  the  Southern 
Pacific  company.  Birchfieid  and  Bradshaw 
were  arrested  near  Chase  & McCabe’s  ranch, 
in  the  lower  Animas.

The  story  of  the  killing  as  told  above  from 
the  Liberal,  is  probably  not  correct.  The  Enter- 
prise learns  on  what  it  considers  fairly  good 
authority,  that  Hines  was  in  the  shaft  house, 
was  called  to  the  door  and  shot.  He  was  only 
hit  by  one  bullet.  It  is  said  that  Devine  claims 
that  Hines  shot  at  him  and  powder  burned  his 
face,  and  that  Walter  Birchfieid  picked  the 
powder  out,  but  this  story  is  not  accredited  by 
those  who  are  somewhat  familiar  with  the  cir- 
cumstances.

The  citizens  of  Hachita  stated  to  the  offi- 
cers that  Bradshaw  was  not  drunk,  and  did 
what  he  could  to  keep  the  boys  from  shooting 
up  the  town.  Bradshaw  was  then  turned  loose. 
It  is  also  stated  that  King  had  left  town  before 
the  killing  occurred.  It  seems  that  Pat  Devine, 
who  has  made  good  his  escape  into  the  Sierra 
Madre,  is  accredited  with  doing  most  of  the 
shooting.

Sheriff  Whitehill  did  not  expect  to  find 
Pat  Devine  in  Tombstone,  but  strange  to  say,  he

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