January 14, 1881 Siner and part-time gambler Mike O’Rourke, 18, and his roommate Robert Petty, 23, are eating in Smith’s rest-aurant in Charleston, Arizona. It’s lunchtime, and Tombstone Mill & Mining Company’s chief engineer Phillip Schneider, 28, comes in and sits at the next table, joining A.E. Lindsey, a local telegraph operator. Having finished his meal, O’Rourke gets up and walks over near the fireplace, sits on a stool and lights a cigar. “You look cold Lindsey,”

March 2005