PATRICK KELLY

4 November 1866

Homicide, gunshot


Personnel; Inquest held on 4 November 1866 at Tubac. Rodolphus Hicks, Justice of the Peace. Jury: Sidney R. DeLong, Stephen Ochoa, Joseph Dawson, J. G. Crowel, C. Y. Volara, Rafile Molina, Dionisio Gonzales, and Refile Salazar.

Testimony: Lieut. D. W. Wolcott testified that the deceased was Patrick Kelly, a Private in Company K of the 1st US Cavalry.

Lewis D. Cole testified that he saw William Ranney draw a pistol toward Kelly, fire, and kill him in front of Glassman’s House in Tubac about sundown on Sunday, 1 July 1866.

Charles Smith testified that he saw William Ranney with a pistol in hand. He came over the wall and Smith tried to stop him. He did not see the shooting as he walked off.

Dionisio Gonzales testified on 11 November 1866 that Ranney had fled into Sonora.

Corp. William Scott of Company C of the 3rd Battalion, 14th US Infantry testified on 9 November 1866 that on 4 November 1866 he was at Glassman’s  in Tubac. Patrick Kelly was standing there. He saw William Ranney, a citizen of Tubac, come out of his house with a revolver in his hand. Ranney hid it behind his back and when within 10 paces, he shot him. There had been words of quarrel between the two of them. The firearm was a six-shooter.

Verdict: Patrick Kelly was in Company K of the 1st United States Cavalry. He died from a pistol wound in the left breast caused by a pistol held in the hands of William Ranney. 

Sources: Pima County, Arizona records 1864-1923, AZ 83, Box 2, 1867 demands folder, University of Arizona Special Collections. This document provides the first name of the Justice of the Peace. Arizona State Archives, Secretary of the Territory, RG 6, SG 5, Box 4

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