ArizonaRealCountry.com 21 August 2017 602.524.7338 For Turn Key Priefert Walkers, Contact Digger: rocksolidframes@aol.com • WWW.ROCKSOLIDFRAMES.COM Traynor was later reported near the mines at Nacozari, Mexico. Mine supervisors Dan Hughes and Jim Kirk hired Traynor as a guard for the payroll of about $15,000 that was brought down from Arizona Territory by train. From the train, Hughes and Kirk would conceal the money in their personal money belts rather than in the old rusty safe in the mine office. A Tough Job Hughes, Kirk and guard Traynor were in a shack saloon in Nacozari when a shot through the window shattered the lamp and plunged them into darkness. The shack was surrounded and Kirk was ordered to “hand over the money.” Traynor’s six shooter belched from the darkness and the man at the window fell dead to the ground. As he did, his fellow bandits opened a barrage of fire at the spot they had seen Traynor’s gun flash. Traynor was hit. Kirk lit a match and saw that Hughes was wounded. Then he saw a Mexican at the window lift his gun. Traynor saw him at the same instance and his gun belched again from his prone position on the floor. The Mexican spun and fell, Traynor’s shot preventing the bandit from killing Hughes. The bandits captured Kirk, but Traynor was nowhere to be found inside the shack saloon. The bandits had Kirk and the money when they rode off down a trail from the shack past the outhouse in the back. As they passed the outhouse, a shot rang out and killed the leader of the bandits. His companions turned their guns on the outhouse and riddled it. Traynor still managed to wound the two remaining bandits as they rode away. Traynor had taken two more slugs in the outhouse and he was covered with his own blood as he staggered out. A posse tracked the blood of the two Traynor had wounded and caught them along the trail. They hung them on the spot. Traynor was healed and back on the job in a little more than a month. Gunned Down A short time later, in May of 1899, Traynor walked through the dance hall and gaming room in the front of Tom Fulghum’s Saloon on Marley St. and into the barroom at the back to get a drink. Bill didn’t notice Downing, who was either already in Fulghum’s or had followed Traynor inside. As Traynor stood at the bar downing his drink, he suddenly spotted Downing in the mirror coming up behind him. Traynor turned to face Downing, only to face a blast from Downing’s six shooter, which the rustler had out when he came up on Traynor. Bill Traynor fell to the floor of Fulghum’s Saloon, his guns still holstered. He never had a chance to draw.