Again we find it our painful task to record another bloody deed in our city. On Friday night last, just after dark, Richard Doyle was killed by Patrick Kelley.
    The two, with a man named McDermott were proprietors of the "Club House," an eating and drinking saloon on the corner of F and McGaa streets, in this city.
    Kelly, however has not been in the habit of giving his attention to the business of the house, but worked as a mason tender for J. C. Murphy, contractor. Yesterday he was out of work, and improved the opportunity to get drunk, and in the evening occasioned a good deal of disturbance in and around the house.
    Finally Kelley and Doyle had a set to, in the back room, and indulged in several--apparently friendly--boxing bouts in which Doyle proved rather the better man of the two. By the intervention of mutual friends they were parted; Kelley went into the street, and in a few minutes returned through the front, or bar-room and into the back room. Doyle at the time was washing his face in the back part of the room. As Kelley entered he pushed Murphy aside and advanced toward Doyle with a bowie knife in his hand, saying "now come on you d----d son of a b---h, I am ready for you." About the same time someone called out to Doyle, "look out Dick, Pat is coming after you with a big knife." Doyle straightened up and turned around facing Kelley, and as he did so, some one handed him a pistol which he snatched by barrel, and as Kelley approached and made a lunge with his knife, struck an ineffectual blow at the latter with the butt of his pistol.
    The knife entered Doyle's abdomen a little higher than the point of the hip, and passed entirely through the body, severing a large artery, and causing death in ten or fifteen minutes.
    Kelley immediately fled through the door and threw away his knife. He was pursued by Mr. Cromwell who soon effected his arrest, and turned him over to Sheriff Wynkoop, who kept him in custody during the night. A Coroner's jury was immediately empaneled, who rendered a verdict that Richard Doyle came to his death from wounds inflicted by a bowie knife in the hands of Patrick Kelley. The accused was immediately placed in irons and held for trial.
    Our information respecting the difficulty has been chiefly obtained from J. C. Murphy, who was an eye-witness to the whole transaction.
    Richard Doyle was a carpenter by trade, and formerly lived at Leavenworth, where he was a member of the Shields' Guards, independent military company. He is spoken of as a quiet and peaceable young man.--Kelley was also formerly from about Leavenworth, but more recently of Lawrence, Kansas. We shall give the proceedings of the investigation from day to day as the trial progresses.
    LATER.--We were in error in stating that the prisoner Kelley remained in the custody of Sheriff Wynkoop. Mr. W. delivered him over to City Marshal Shaffer, at a late hour last evening, and he now remains in his cu[s]tody. His trial is set for Monday, 17th, inst., at 9 o'clock, a. m. The accused is in consultation with his counsel and friends, to-day.

Source:

Unknown, "Another Homicide," Weekly Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado, Wednesday, 19 December, 1860, page 2.