Statewide County AZ Archives Obituaries.....Sheenan, Larry March 1888
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Arizona Silver Belt-March 1888
The Stein's Peak train robbers have one and all been killed.  When this report
reached here it was at first discredited but later advices add confirmation to
it.  Ex-Sheriff R.H. Paul, now detective for the Southern Pacific Railroad and a
man by the name of Pierce, located them on a ranch about twenty miles from the
city of Chihuahua and with an escort of Mexican soldiers demanded their
surrender, but instead of complying the robbers barricaded themselves in the
house and the fight began.  Unfortunately for the attacking party a family was 
in the house also, and aggressive measures could not be resorted to while they
were there but the next day they were allowed to leave and the ball opened in
earnest.  Finally the attacking party succeeded in firing the house and this
drove the robbers out and in the fight that followed all three of them were
killed as was also a Mexican sergeant of the attacking party. This closed the
bloody drama and train robbing received another setback from which it will be 
hard to recover.  Paul and his posse are to be congratulated on the great
victory they have achieved.

March 16, 1888

From the information given to the Tucson Star by Sheriff M.F. Shaw and Sam
Harris, who returned from pursuit of the Stein Pass train robbers on the 5th it
is highly probably that the gang will be overtaken and possibly are in custody
now.  The trail of the robbers was followed by Marshall Meade's posse with two
Papago trailers to the Palatodo Ranch near the town of Janos in the State of
Chihuahua.  Here a description of the two men they were following was obtained
and it was learned that the same parties had come to the ranch ten days
previous, accompanied by a third who accidentally shot himself in the leg in
dismounting from his horse, and he had remained at the ranch eight days until
his companion returned when they all left together in the direction of 
Janos.

It is confidently believed that the robbers who took in the train are Dick,
alias T.J. Johnson and Dick Hart and the wounded man left at the ranch is Larry
Sheehan.  Johnson and Sheehan left Stein's Pass in the latter part of January 
for El Paso, where they were joined by Hart and all then went down to the city
of Chihuahua.  Detective Thacker who was there at the time, suspected that they
had a job on hand. In a few days he missed them and learned that they had left
on horseback between the 8th and 10th and subsequently heard of the robber yat
Stein's Pass.

Detective Thacker has been active in ferreting out train robbers and was
instrumental in securing the arrest and conviction of the six Americans who
robbed the Mexican Central train on the 10th of February.


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