during their tenure in the county jail, the outlaws asked for their bodies to be delivered to the local Roman Catholic priest, Father Gallagher. Their hats were then taken from them and black hoods pulled down over their heads. The nooses were subsequently adjusted around their necks. It was then that Daniel "York" Kelly, his voice muffled by the hood which covered his features, said, "Let her go!" On March 28, 1884, at 1:18 p.m. James "Tex" Howard, Dan "Big Dan" Dowd, William Delaney (or DeLaney), Omer W. "Red" Sample, and Kelly were executed. They were dropped together and, except for Dowd, died quickly. Dowd's body was seen to twitch and jerk for several minutes as he strangled to death. The bodies of the Bisbee bandits were allowed to hang there in the early spring air for a full half-hour before they were officially pronounced dead. Then, at 1:45 p.m. the corpses were cut down and “placed in neat but plain coffins” and conveyed to the city morgue, where they were each identified in turn by Gallagher. Learning that a medical school intended to exhume the bandits' corpses for research, Cashman intervened, hiring two miners to guard the graves of the bandits for ten days. A joint gravestone marks the graves of the five executed bandits, which can still be seen in Tombstone. Current graves The following are the images, as of 2017, of the individual graves of Dan Dowd, William E. Delaney, Daniel Kelley, James Howard and Omer W. Sample in Boot Hill Graveyard in Tombstone. See also List of massacres in Arizona Lynching in the United States Cochise County in the Old West References Further reading The Bisbee Massacre The Copper Chronicle, KPRB Radio, Bisbee Madeline Ferrin Pare with Bert M. Fireman, Arizona Pageant – A Short History of the 48th State Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Historical Foundation, 1875, pp. 231–232 Thomas Way, Frontier Arizona (A Milestone Book), Carleton Press, 1960 1883 murders in the United States Massacres in 1883 Murder in Arizona Conflicts in 1883 1883 in Arizona Territory 1884 in Arizona Territory Mass murder in the United States Crimes in Arizona Territory Bisbee, Arizona December 1883 events Events in Cochise County, Arizona