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welcome to a very exciting edition of Mysteries of the Superstition Mountains
today Jack San Felice is going to talk to us
about one of the gunfights that happened up in the Silver King area the story of
Ned Fales Ned Fales was a came West to be a cowboy
his real name I believe was Robert Goode G ood e not so sure on the Robert but
I'm sure on the Goode and he came to be a cowboy here and now remember silver King
was a town of 500 Pimal city was a town of 3,000 what did the people eat
beef so ranchers came here in the early 1870s the first ranch was in the superstitions
and it started after that the ranchers came out here never would
there have been Cowboys in Tucson for hundreds of years the Vaqueros is what
they called them and so they had to get beef so he was a cowboy and on his time
off you know Cowboys are only needed two times a year doing round ups really most
of the Cowboys and after that they had to go on the grub line and look for
other jobs well Ned Fales came in the Silver King all the time because he was
in love with this girl named Kathleen otherwise known as Katie who was a
waitress at Silver King and there was everybody you know that was all the men
were in love with her because she was a beautiful redheaded Irish lassie named
Kathleen but Ned was very enamored with her and and so was Billy O'Boyle was
the owner of Silver King but you see Billy O'boyle was married
and therefore his affections for her were kind of guarded but Ned
Ned Fales weren't and and he would also come out to the Silver King and
sometimes ride his horse in the front door where the saloon was and then take
him out and roar down Main Street a Silver King downhill or uphill shooting his Six Gun
Billy O'Boyle hated him for that he couldn't do that he was a hotel owner
he was a bartender he was a bar food manager he wasn't a cowboy or a
shoot-'em-up guy one day he came into the Silver King hotel and Billy had been
drinking it was in the evening and that come in without his horse and he they
started to drink and they saw Billy O'Boyle there I said Billy let me buy
you a drink say pour him a drink he poured the
bartender Porured who's name was by the way they called him stuttering Jack his
name was Jack McCoy and his name was stuttering Jack and he was on La the
posses of the County Sheriff with the most famous County Sheriff at that time
Billy O'Boyle took the glass of whiskey and threw it in the face of Ned Fales
Ned says well if you don't like my drinks here I'll go down to I always
took doing my drinking down but I'll still come and see Katie and I'll eat
down here too so I can see Katie that incensed Billy Oh Boyle
now listen he was drunk he'd been drinking Ned fales turns and walks toward the
Williams hotel where they had the saloon Billy O'boyle grabbed a six-gun from
under the bar ran out into the street and fired six times at Ned Feles he just
winged him a little bit on the side he gave him a like of what they call a
flesh wound Ned Fales grabbed this six gun pulled it
out fired one time shot right through the heart Ned Fales
put it he put his gun away walked up and he didn't know he killed him he saw I
knocked him over he walked up down to the Williams Hotel start drinking
not long after that now remember stuttering Jack McCoy who was the bartender and the
nephew of Billy O'Boyle started talking bad about Ned Fales because stuttering
Jack McCoy also was in love with Katie so he figures I got rid of Billy I might
get to take over the hotel and if I can get rid of Ned Fales.
I'll have Katie all
to myself that stuttering Jack did not get the
girl anyhow he goes into Williams but an hour or so later the Silver king shift
lets out and guess what it's not pay day but they get credit
Billy O'Boyle who always gave them credit the miners went down the Silver
King their first stop not that part of the mine right down the road the silver King
so they go in and drinking and stuttering jack is talking what an
evil man that Ned Fales was how he murdered his poor uncle and he didn't
use the word shot shootout this her dad used the word murder he gets these guys drunk
he's free beer! free whiskey! by the way he's getting them drunk gets them
loaded up they the mob scene they go over to the Williams Hotel and Ned Fales
is still there they drag him out and they hoist him up put a rope around his
neck and they hoist him up to the telegraph pole right across from the
Williams hotel and that where the whether they actually where the
stagecoach stop is and where also is the big Corral down there and that's
was the end of Ned Fales the end of Billy O'Boyle
but the moral of the story is that stuttering Jack did not get the girl
she didn't like stuttering jack and since she had so many bad vibes here at
Silver King and the loss of Billy O'Boyle and the loss of her paramour her
lover her so to speak because we kissed a girl in those days they considered you a
lover okay then
she was sad and he overcome by it
because she worked right down the road from where he was hung on hung Lynched
judge Lynch took over so she moved to Mesa City and from there she moved to I
understand wound up and either excuse me Prescott or Flagstaff
Where she somebody married her and that was the end of the days but that's the story
but the big shootout here was a Wild West shoot-out
Perry Wildman writes how quiet it was in in the mining camps you know and
silver King no was not.
in real life it was not
you have to read the other stories one of the stories about Tom Kerr they hung on Christmas
Day and then there's the story about Ben Regan given a sermon down at Pinal
City and there's the other hold up man that they caught and shootouts with or
killed them or beat them to death to find out where the loot was remember you
you get the confession out of one you got the loot once they get the loot
unless they shot them the other hold up men.. others got away.
they wanted the money
I don't know how they held these things let alone draw him out of a holster if I
were in a gunfight I'd probably shoot from around a corner it's much easier
but there you have it the story of Ned Fales as told by Jack San Felice another
one of the great stories of the Superstition Mountains
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