ONE EYED REILLY
Arizona Republican Newspaper
December 20, 1898

One Eyed Reilly came to town on Sunday. His coming was a sign of 
atmospheric disturbance. It ocucrred at the Palace the same night.  
The last time Mr. Reilly was in town he almost oblitereated the 
Cline  famliy root and branhc, in the alley back of the Anjeuser. 
They were all ressusciated after Mr. Reilly's hasty departure. 
That was on July 5, the day after the obliteration of Cervera's 
fleet which Mr. Reilly was celebrating.  The Clines were 
Span-yards.

On Sunday night Mr. Reilly and a man named John Tompkins went into 
the Palace for a drink. Reilly put a quarter on the bar and Tompkins, 
who was drunk beyond discretion swiped it. Reilly knocked him down.  
Jack Phillips, a big brakeman, milding remonstrated with him upon 
his conduct, Reilly replied with a blow in the eye which would have 
put a common out.  But Phillips was not a common man, and so he 
"lifted Mr. Reilly".  That gentleman flew through the air and hit 
a swinging door which was not sensitive enough to give way quickly 
and Mr. Reilly carried it with him and landed in a heap with it in 
the vestibule of the saloon. Philip wnet outside to look at the 
ruin he had wrought.  A comon man would have bne dead from such 
a blow, but neither was Mr. Reilly a common man.

Disengaging himself from the door he was on his feet and grappling 
with Phiillips. The struggle was titanic. The bystanders said 
Rielly was licked but Officer molloy who came up, pulled the 
fighters apart, arrested them, pronounced it a draw and declared 
all bets off. Mr. Reilly was fined $10 in police court yesterday 
and became indignant. He said it oughtn't have been more than $5 
seeing the fight was only half finished.  He acknowledged that 
Phillips is a man of great reserve power and better qualified 
for a mule than a brakeman.

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