Joe Phillips (horse thief, 1888)
Lead
Peck and Billy Quinn, tracking four horses stolen four miles from Duncan [1][2]. The thieves had broken into the Nichol Ranch and taken a saddle, and into the Circle Ranch to steal a Winchester and pistol [1][2]. Carwile’s place, about a mile below town; one thief halted when commanded, but the other spurred his horse and attempted to flee until pistol shots forced him to stop [1][2]. The men were going by the names Joe Phillips and Levi Harkey, had previously borne good reputations, but their hard riding and mountain craftiness suggested they were not novices at horse theft [1][2].
Sources
- An Important Capture (1888)An Important Capture On Wednesday morning at 8:30 a.m. W. J. Parks, deputy sheriff, with a party of four well- armed men, consisting of Buck Tyson, J. T. Phillips, Frank Shriver and Lew Childer, left Duncan on…
- Silver City Enterprise — 1888-1890 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1888-04-20 (1888)se esteem and respect the deceased had commanded for years. The deceased had been in the employ of Colonel Hudson, of the Hot springs, for many years, who remained by him in his illness and had everything…