The Brazelton Robbery
Arizona The Youngest State
McClintock, 1913, page 473

In July 1883, on a road to the northwest of Tucson there 
were a couple of stage robberies, something not uncommon 
in the least in that locality; but added interest was given  
from the fact that in the second robbery, the highwayman had 
pretended to lead a considerable number of other, unseen 
bandits, and from behind a clump of sage brush had 
protruded the muzzle of a shot gun.  The passengers were 
rather irritated when it was found that the robber was 
alone, a fact demonstrated by none other than the famous 
Pete Kitchen who with some Papago trailers, tracked the 
robber about thirty miles into the Santa Cruz Valley, 
south of Tucson where the trail had to be abandoned.  
Soon thereafter into town came a health seeker, who had a 
milk ranch four miles from Tucson with a tale that he was 
harboring in his house a desperado who had threatened him 
with death if he failed to return that night with 
provisions and ammunition.  The rendezvous was kept 
in the mesquite thicket, where also was Sheriff Charles 
Shibell with a posse and in the resultant melee the 
robber was killed.  He proved to be Jim Brazleton, 
who had been employed in the livery stable of R.N. 
Leatherwood, next to the courthouse in Tucson and 
there was later evidence that the same man, within 
nine months, had robbed seven mail coaches around 
Albuquerque from which point he had come.




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