Raid on Ruby Arizona, February 27, 1920

A small raid, which may have been simply a raid by bandits, but which is sometimes associated with Villistas, took place near Ruby Arizona.  Three Americans died in the raid, which had the attributes of a robbery.

The raid was actually on a store in Ruby which had just sold to John and Alexander Frazer.  They wer both shot and killed by the raiders.  The raiders also destroyed the telephone wires for the town's only telephone and that horses had been stolen from a local ranch.  A posse lead by Sheriff Raymond Earhart tracked the raiders, determined to be two in number, but failed to catch them.  By means that are unclear to me, they were later identified and one of them was killed in October in a gunfight in Pima County, Arizona and the other ultimately jailed for crimes in Mexico.