Mr. ROMERO
October 9, 1902
Bisbee
Arizona Republican Newspaper

W.B. Houston and H.S. Houston two brothers who make their 
headquarters in the vicinity of the San Bernardino ranch 
arrived in Bisbee late yesterday afternoon and gave an 
account of the killing of a Mexican near College Peak 
yesterday morning at 11 o'clock says the Review of Tuesday:

H.S. Houston arrived by stage from Naco about 4 o'clock 
and W.B. Houston came in on the train last evening.  Both 
men tell about the same story which in the main is to the 
effect that H.D. Houston had on Monday morning killed a 
Mexican and that the body was on the way to Bisbee where 
it will arrive this morning.  Mr. Houston was seen last 
evening by a Review reporter and told the following story 
of the affair:

"Myself and brother, H.S. Houston, and a man named Taylor 
had been on a round up in that vicinity and were keeping 
an eye on Slaughter's pasture, where several head of Mexican 
cattle had been placed by parties unknown and which we were 
watching on the request of Mr. Slaughter, when he left for 
Los Angeles.

"Monday morning we were riding in the vicinity of the big 
draw, about five miles from the ranch when we saw four men 
riding toward the pasture.  My brother said he thought 
they were Mexican officials and that he would gallop over 
to them and see.  He left us and rode ahead and Taylor and 
myself followed on behind.  When he had gone about four 
hundred yards from us I saw his rifle smoke and his horse 
fall.  We hurried up and he said the outfit had opened 
fire on him and he had recognized Burt Wayne and a man 
named Williams.

"One Mexican was in the party and the second shot my brother 
fired he killed him.  Several shots were fired on both sides.

"I saw the dead body of the Mexican and from the description 
of Romero I am satisfied that is the man killed. My brother 
saw Romero in the Tombstone jail and is positive the man 
killed is the Mexican murderer and outlaw.

The body was not take into Douglas, the nearest point, for 
the reason that the Houston brothers and the justice of the 
peace are not on good terms."

The arrival of the dead body will be awaited with a great 
deal of interest this morning.  Several residents of Bisbee 
will be able to identify Romero.  The rangers were not 
present when the shooting occurred, as first reported.  
The men were coming direct from Mexico when first seen and 
the incidents leading up to the killing are as stated 
above.  Romero is an escape from the Tombstone jail, 
being under sentence of death for the murder of a barber 
in Bisbee some months ago.