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Old 08-16-2018, 12:01 PM   #1
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Constable Frank Broad versus a Tombstone "Ripper."

Late on the evening of September 3, 1892, Mollie Kingsman, "a woman of easy virtue" was standing on a corner near her house on Allen Street in Tombstone, A.T. when she was accosted by one Francisco Lopez. Before she knew what was happening, Lopez dragged her into a gulch and began stoning her. "To the fact that he could find no large rocks, the woman owes her existence to-day," the Tombstone Epitaph declared. Undeterred however, Lopez bent the poor dove?s head down, opened his jaws and bit down on the woman?s ear, then ripped away a part of her "auditory apparatus."

Lopez spit the woman's ear lope out of his mouth and then started to chew off what remained of Kingsman's ear. The woman managed to break free however and ran towards her house screaming.

Hearing the screams, Constable Frank Broad, a particularly active Cochise County lawman, grabbed his revolver and jumped into action. Broad chased Lopez down the street, fired a warning shot from his six-gun and called on him to surrender. Somehow, Lopez managed to duck down an alley and escaped. Broad gathered a small posse of volunteers and together they eventually found Lopez hiding under a stack of old doors and garbage. "He played off drunk and was obliged to be packed down to the city jail by four large men," the Epitaph reported. "He fought desperately on the way, but was soon landed behind the bars."

Though a portion of Mollie Kingsman's ear was later recovered from the ground where Lopez had spit it out, the prostitute suffered a permanent injury, which no doubt made a hard life even harder. Lopez was charged with the crime of "mayhem" and in November of 1892 was sentenced to six years in Arizona's Yuma Prison.
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Old 08-16-2018, 09:54 PM   #2
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Well that is no way to treat a lady, even if she was "lady of the night"!
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Good thing Tyson wasn't around back then when he bit off part of Holyfield's ear.
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