It was a good racket, but he couldnt stay out of trouble long enough to enjoy it. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. For instance, Poe does not remember the significant incident at the peach orchard. Once again, Billy the Kid ended up in custody. Ethan Hawke and Dane DeHaan ride tall in Vincent DOnofrios fresh take on the saga of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid. After his release, Billy the Kid joined up with a posse called the Lincoln County Regulators in order to avenge Tunstalls death. Join us for a daily celebration of the worlds most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places. The two men were fined for disturbing the peace. Garrett then supposedly shot McCarty dead. Roberts died a month later, and neither Billy the Kid nor Brushy Bill Roberts ever received a pardon. Now a fugitive, Henry McCarty had to lay low. He was the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, as well as Doa Ana County, New Mexico. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. They lived in a slum on Manhattans east side and his father, Patrick, died soon after his first son was born. Nine years older than Billy, he'd been a buffalo hunter, hired gun, and cowboy before he ran for sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, on a law-and-order platform. Some argue his book about Billy Bonney is the only reason why The Kid is remembered today. In the midst of the act, he was shot in the back of the head. Exactly what happened after that has been the subject of speculation ever since, but everyone agrees on one fact: On the night of July 14, Billy the Kid was shot to death in Maxwells home. I asked him as to the whereabouts of the Kid. Billy Hathorn / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0), Carol M. Highsmith/Library of Congress/LC-DIG-highsm-29831. In 1948, a paralegal named William V. Morrison was investigating a man named Joe Hines, a survivor of the Lincoln County War, the feud that helped make Billy the Kids name. She writes, A promise is a promise and should be enforced. Instead, he briefly moved to Texas to serve asa Lieutenant in the Texas Rangers before returning to his ranch in New Mexico. Some of those in favor of Kids pardon have filed a petition, including defense attorney Randi McGinn who has offered to handle the case for free. Well, let me explain by starting with a little history lesson. Marshal named Robert Widenmann, there as part of a federal effort to restore order, who let him out (presumably sparing him the hassle of planning his third jail escape). The Lincoln County justice of the peace was convinced but before Brady could be arrested, local deputies loyal to the sheriff arrested Billy and threw him in jail. The sheriff and two deputies, John Poe and Thomas McKinney, saddle up and set out in search of their quarry. Either way, Billy sensed that trouble was coming and decided to head it off at the pass. Garrett settled a truce with the fugitives to retrieve his deputy, who died on the way to Las Cruces. Experts believe a picture that shows the New Mexico outlaw with Garrett would be worth much more. A very similar situation arose with yet another disputed photo of Billy in 2017. Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico, declined to follow through with that pardon. 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After this look at Billy the Kid, read up on other legendary Wild West figures like legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley and Bass Reeves, the bullet-dodging black lone ranger. You can read all about Billys last night from the point of view of the man who shot him. For example, a Mrs. Wood of Seven Rivers said she served the outlaw dinner three days after he was supposed to have died. What prompted this last minute decision? He never spoke. Follow us on social media to add even more wonder to your day. He also obtained a deputy U.S. Marshals commission to have jurisdiction in other counties. So, the Kid escaped custody and eluded the law for the next two years. The Regulators found themselves cornered and under siege in a local saloon by elements of the local sheriffs posse. Although he claimed to have killed 21 men, the actual number is likely less than 10. However, Poe and several other people say they moved the body quickly, dressed it and prepared it for a wake. Garrett went on to be a rancher, customs collector, sheriff of another county, and terrible gambler. When the warden came out into the street to investigate the gunshot, Billy shouted down to him: Look up, old boy, and see what you get! and then he shot him dead (apparently arousing no suspicion from any bystanders in the process). We concealed ourselves quickly and listened; but the distance was too great to hear words, or even distinguish voices. Pat Garrett, byname of Patrick Floyd Garrett, (born June 5, 1850, Chambers County, Ala., U.S.died Feb. 29, 1908, near Las Cruces, N.M.), Western U.S. lawman known as the man who killed Billy the Kid (q.v.). Who is it?' In 1901 Garrett was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as Collector of Customs in El Paso. Billy the Kid was up for a posthumous pardon for the murder for which he was to be hanged. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.. Garrett succeeded in capturing Billy the Kid and a few other outlaws at Stinking Springs on December 23, 1880. Another chance at a famous crime solving came after Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain and his eight-year-old son Henry vanished at White Sands, New Mexico, in 1896. Even by frontier standards, he was young. Rumor has it that the Kid has taken a shine to Maxwells sister Paulita, though its likely shes not the only local girl to have caught his eye. Like us on Facebook to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders. On April 15th, Judge Warren Bristol sentenced Billy the Kid to hang, but he escaped before the sentence was carried out. 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Billy the Kid, that heasked Sheriff Kimball to appoint him deputy sheriff until his term officiallybegan in January of 1881. Billy lights out for old Fort Sumner on the Pecos River, some 150 miles northeast of Lincoln. McGinn also says that Wallace assured Kid that he had the authority to exempt him from prosecution should he cooperate and share his knowledge, but that Wallace never held up his end of the deal. I might not pardon him. All he wanted to do was to get that pardon that hed been promised, and I believe he felt this was his last chance to get it.. But before that could happen, Billy snuck out of jail yet again and stole another horse which he rode hard for New Mexico Territory where he was still wanted for robbery. He murdered two deputies, James Bell and Bob Olinger, during the escape. Carl Adamson agreed to take the goats until Brazel discovered his estimate of the number of goats had been wrong and demanded the buyer take all 1,800 goats. Wikimedia CommonsPat Garrett, the man who shot Billy the Kid. One of them suddenly got up, walked out of the orchard, and leaped over a fence. Billy the Kid was born Henry McCarty to Irish immigrants in New York City around 1859. It was near midnight and Pete was in bed. For starters, Billy the Kids name wasnt Billy and he wasnt born in the western United States. At that moment a man sprang quickly into the door, looking back, and called twice in Spanish, Who comes there? No one replied and he came on in. He made a deal with the governor that should he testify against persons involved in the Lincoln County War, he would receive a full pardon for involvement in Sheriff Bradys death and other misdeeds. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Billy the Kid (left) and Brushy Bill Roberts (right). When the Kid, by me unrecognized, left the orchard, I motioned to my companions, and we cautiously retreated a short distance, and, to avoid the persons whom we had heard at the houses, took another route, approaching Maxwells house from the opposite direction. The two would have nine children over the years. It was at the saloon that Pat Garrett met and often gambled with William Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid. The two were seen together so often they soon took on the nicknames of Big Casino and Little Casino. A handwriting expert in Texas compared a signature from Garrett on the photo with ten documents with his known handwriting. When we reached the porch in front of the building, I left Poe and McKinney at the end of the porch, about twenty feet from the door of Petes room, and went in. He moved in with an El Paso prostitute; when Curry learned of Garretts situation, he withdrew his offer. But it wasnt to be. He was a wanted young man. HistoryNet.com contains daily features, photo galleries and over 25,000 articles originally published in our nine magazines. Antrim tolerated this briefly but the two eventually had a falling out and McCarty left for good, making sure to steal a gun and some clothes on his way out. In 1964 an Ohio woman took up the challenge that had led to Amelia Earharts disappearance. Here's how Sheriff Pat Garrett related his side of the story. He moved to Texas, where Governor John Ireland appointed him to the Texas Rangers. Garrett wouldn't find McCarty until two years later, a month after he was appointed sheriff. One of his first acts was to capture Billy the Kid, sending him to trial for the murder of the Lincoln sheriff and his deputy. Does Billy the Kid Deserve the Pardon He was Promised? Born on New York Citys East Side, Billy as a child migrated with his parents to Kansas; his father died there, and the mother and her two boys moved to Colorado, where she remarried.