Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Tombstone, Arizona

Lester Moore Grave
Boothill Graveyard
Tombstone, Arizona
Moore was an agent for the Famous Wells-Fargo Stages.  He had a dispute with a man over a package; both men died as the result of the gun battle that followed.

Graves of Dowd, Samples, Howard, Delaney & Kelly
Boothill Graveyard
Tombstone, Arizona
These five men were found guilty of killing several people in a store robbery in Bisbee and all hanged on one scaffold in the Court House yard on March 8, 1884.

John Heath Grave
Boothill Graveyard
Tombstone, Arizona
Taken from the Tombstone county jail and lynched on Feb. 22, 1884 by angry mob of Bisbee people for his leadership of five other men who killed several people in a robbery.  The five other men were all found guilty and legally hanged.

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