WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:05.360 Of all the legends from the days of gunslingers and desperadoes, no one fires 2 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:11.240 our collective imagination more than Billy the Kid. Now maybe that's because no outline 3 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:16.640 better blurred the lines between good and bad. He's actually going to jail, 4 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:20.879 and he's probably going to be hanged, and yet he's laughing about it. 5 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:23.480 From his point of view, he would have been killed within a matter of 6 00:00:23.559 --> 00:00:26.480 days if he hadn't killed them first. But at the same time, I 7 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:29.600 think that's not a justification for murder. If the law had not been so 8 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:34.159 incredibly corrupt, he wouldn't be in this situation. The Kid had learned a 9 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:37.920 hard truth about the way the world worked in New Mexico. Just a few 10 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:41.399 years earlier, he'd been a skinny, orphan boy from New York City. 11 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:46.200 Calling themselves the regulators, they vowed to dispense their own brand of justice. 12 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:51.119 Now Billy was the most feared man in New Mexico. The people he was 13 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:54.000 fighting against, even the ones who were on the side of the law, 14 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:58.759 were brooks. These were not fine, outstanding citizens who were being gunned down. 15 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:07.239 William Henry McCarty alias William Antram alias Kid Antram, alias William H. 16 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:33.120 Bonnie alias Billy the Kid. Yeah, I'll make your things. The best 17 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:38.040 part about researching Billy the Kid is the fact that not even historians can agree 18 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:44.079 on his early years. So what I had to do was I had to 19 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:48.760 research all kinds of different shit and I kind of put it all together and 20 00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:56.120 I went by what historians would say the most of So basically, if five 21 00:01:56.239 --> 00:02:00.519 historians said this and three historians said that, I'm going to go with what 22 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:04.920 the five agreed on. So this is pretty much what I came up with. 23 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:08.319 And I will tell you right now, after researching Billy the Kid, 24 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:15.120 I have a whole new respect for this guy, man, I truly do. 25 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:17.919 Yeah. He was at times a cold blooded murderer, as you're going 26 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:23.159 to find out, he was a victim of circumstance more often than not. 27 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:28.639 It's really interesting. So let's go ahead and get rolling here. Now. 28 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:35.080 He was supposedly born William Henry McCarty junior, and he was born in either 29 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:39.879 eighteen fifty nine or eighteen sixty one. They believe his birthday is November twenty 30 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:45.520 third, and they say that he was born in New York. His father 31 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:51.360 is unknown. His mother was Catherine McCarty who was an Irish immigrant who came 32 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:55.520 to America during the Great Potato Famine over in Ireland. Now, he did 33 00:02:55.639 --> 00:03:00.439 have a brother who was named Joe. Even history oriens can't agree on when 34 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:06.360 he was born. His death certificate says he was born in eighteen fifty four, 35 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:12.319 which would make him older than Billy, But Joe himself and there are 36 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:16.800 documents that correlate with this, says he was born in eighteen sixty three, 37 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:23.159 which would make him Billy's younger brother. They can't agree on whether Billy was 38 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:27.879 born in New York or if he was born in Anderson, Indiana, which 39 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:32.080 is just kick ass in my book because I'm from Indiana. So the reason 40 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:37.599 they think he was born in New York is because, ironically enough, in 41 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:42.280 eighteen sixty one, there is a kid that shows up getting a baptism that 42 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:46.439 is going by the name Henry McCarty. They're not one hundred percent sure if 43 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:52.400 this is him, though, because his father is unknown. There's so many 44 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:55.919 stories about his father. It has suspected that his dad was a guy named 45 00:03:55.960 --> 00:04:01.879 Michael McCarty who had died in the Civil War. That's unconfirmed. Is also 46 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:08.039 stated that they believe young William McCarty might have been an illegitimate child. And 47 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:14.719 where this comes from is Catherine, his mother. When historians would try to 48 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:18.920 talk to her family, her surviving family about her, they literally would change 49 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:24.199 the subject and would not really acknowledge her. So that would kind of give 50 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:29.279 the idea that maybe these kids were illegitimate. Now we do not know that. 51 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:34.240 Even his birthday of November twenty third is not certain. The only person 52 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:41.480 that said his birthday was on November twenty third was in Pat Garrett's biography of 53 00:04:41.519 --> 00:04:45.040 Billy the Kid, and I believe it was titled The Authentic Life of Billy 54 00:04:45.079 --> 00:04:47.839 the Kid. The thing about it is is his co author on this book 55 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:54.399 that person's birthday just so happens to be on November twenty third as well, 56 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:58.759 So they think they really didn't know, and they just kind of inserted that 57 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:02.800 birthday in there and just everybody accepted it as fact. So we really don't 58 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:09.240 know. Most historians will say that he was born on November twenty third, 59 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:13.920 eighteen fifty nine, in New York. Now where Indiana comes into play is 60 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:19.279 this is the first official record per a census and Anderson, Indiana on June 61 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:25.199 eighteenth, eighteen sixty eight, there was a census taken, like I said, 62 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:29.920 and Katherine McCarty does show up, and she states that she has two 63 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:33.800 boys that go by William, Henry McCarty and Joseph McCarty. While they are 64 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:39.680 living in Anderson, Indiana, this is where Katherine meets a guy named William 65 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:45.839 Antrim. She has like a laundry business. She's washing people's clothes, she's 66 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:49.600 baking stuff. She's pretty much trying to get by any way that she can. 67 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:55.839 William Antrim not much is known about his past up until he comes into 68 00:05:55.879 --> 00:06:00.399 contact with Catherine. He really doesn't care about the Bays too much. Young 69 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:04.439 Joseph and William. He really, you know, he just kind of wanted 70 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:11.199 Catherine. And as we're gonna come to find out, William Antram was probably 71 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:16.439 not the best husband or father figure that these boys could have had. They 72 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:20.439 are going through a courtship for a couple of years. On August tenth, 73 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:28.000 eighteen seventy, they move their little family to Wichita, Kansas. Actually is 74 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:34.120 right outside of Wichita, Kansas, and Katherine is actually in the papers here. 75 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:40.120 This is documented. She is a business leader. She opens up her 76 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:46.040 laundry business again she's doing pretty well for herself. But this is also around 77 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:50.000 the time that she is diagnosed with consumption, which is also known as tuberculosis 78 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:55.959 at the time the infection of the lungs, so she needs to move to 79 00:06:56.079 --> 00:07:00.959 a less humid climate. They need to go do somewhere dry and possibly warmer, 80 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:08.199 So in August of eighteen seventy one they leave for a dryer climate because 81 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:12.720 of the consumption. The next time we see them pop up is in Denver, 82 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:17.079 Colorado, in October of eighteen seventy two. Now they really weren't there 83 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:21.800 too long from what I could find out, because they later end up moving 84 00:07:21.839 --> 00:07:26.720 to Santa Fe. And how we know this is because on March first, 85 00:07:26.720 --> 00:07:33.279 eighteen seventy three, William Antrim and Catherine McCarty are married in Santa Fe where 86 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:40.560 Little Billy was a witness and he signed the marriage certificate as the witness. 87 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:46.600 He signed it to little Harry McCarty, which is absolutely adorable. I don't 88 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:53.399 even know why. But so from here on she's still doing her business. 89 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:57.879 You know, she's washing clothes, she's baking stuff for people. Now, 90 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:03.560 right around this time, in April of eighteen seventy three, they move the 91 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:09.319 Antrim family to Silver City, New Mexico. William wants to start work as 92 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:13.439 a prospector. There's silver mines popping up everywhere. Everybody's wanting to get their 93 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:20.639 riches, so they do settle in Silver City. Catherine starts washing clothes, 94 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:24.560 she starts baking, selling those baked goods, and she even takes on boarders 95 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:28.360 in her house to make ends meet. William, on the other hand, 96 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:35.519 is pretty much a piece of shit. He is running around, never really 97 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:39.840 around. He's always trying to make his riches. He's off in the silver 98 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:46.440 mines. Whatever little money he does make he spends. He has a gambling 99 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:50.720 addiction. He's a heavy drinker, and like I said, he really doesn't 100 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:54.440 care too much. Dude's just not around. But Billy and Joe, on 101 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:58.159 the other hand, are doing fairly well. Billy is doing good in school. 102 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:03.080 His personality starts coming out right about now, and from schoolmates that did 103 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:09.559 go to school with young William McCarty, they said his personality was kick ass. 104 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:13.039 He just was happy, go lucky, real care free. It is 105 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:18.120 said that he had like a little bit of protruding buck teeth, but he 106 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:24.000 was still a ladies man because of that. Personality. Everybody got along with 107 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:28.080 him really, really well. Another thing that we did find out is that 108 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:33.320 he's a hell of a dancer because picture this if you can, young Billy. 109 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:39.240 The kid is a dancer because him and his mom used to go to 110 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:43.399 town dances. She taught him how to dance. So this kind of helped 111 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:48.080 his reputation of being a little bit of a ladies man. The girls did 112 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:52.480 love him, and like I said, everything's going great. You know, 113 00:09:52.559 --> 00:10:00.159 this kind of gets bad around September of eighteen seventy four, after four were 114 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:05.600 months of bed rest because of her consumption. On September sixteenth, eighteen seventy 115 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:13.679 four, Catherine dies from her consumption, also known as tuberculosis. William Antrim 116 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:16.720 was not around when his wife died. He was off doing whatever the hell 117 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:22.600 he was doing. But before she does die, she arranges for the boys 118 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:26.200 to be taken in by a neighbor of hers. That right there is just 119 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:31.600 crazy admirable because this woman's working three different jobs taking care of these two boys, 120 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:37.840 raising little gentlemen for the most part, and her husband's off whatever. 121 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:41.879 Her husband doesn't even come back for her funeral, so they get taken in 122 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:46.519 by this neighbor. What happens is when William Antrum ends up coming back, 123 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:52.399 he does not want anything to do with these boys. He doesn't want anything 124 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:56.240 dragging him down. He doesn't want anything to do with them, so he 125 00:10:56.279 --> 00:11:01.039 takes off for Clifton, Arizona and leaves the boys behind. Now, at 126 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:05.600 this point, this death of his mother just devastated Billy all right, like 127 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:07.919 this was his rock. This was the one person in his life that was 128 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:13.559 stationary, that loved him unconditionally, that was always there for him, and 129 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:18.159 she's gone. He gets pushed off to a neighbor's house and he's not doing 130 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:20.679 bad, but obviously he's dealing with some shit. He's just a young kid 131 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:26.639 at this point in time, he's thirteen years old. Now. While he 132 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:31.679 was living with these neighbors, he does, in early of eighteen seventy five, 133 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:37.000 get his first arrest, and believe it or not, he gets arrested 134 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:41.720 for stealing butter from a rancher and trying to sell it to a local merchant. 135 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:48.120 Now, because Billy is friends with the sheriff's kid and his name was 136 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:52.240 Sheriff Whitehill, you know, they ran around together and stuff, all he 137 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:54.679 gets is a little bit of some verbal discipline, you know, the Sheriff's 138 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:56.960 is like, hey, you know, this ain't the road you want to 139 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:01.399 go down. We're not gonna get you in too much trouble. Just get 140 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:03.919 your shit together, quit steal and stuff. Now, at this point in 141 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:09.600 time, he is also bouncing around two different houses, different little foster homes. 142 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:13.879 He has no stationary place to live, so it's not out of the 143 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:18.000 realm of possibility that he's trying to make a living. He's on his own 144 00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:24.879 at thirteen fourteen years old. So he starts getting into a little bit of 145 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:31.399 more trouble and on September twenty third, eighteen seventy five, young William Henry 146 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:37.799 McCarty is arrested again, this time for stealing laundry. Now I have heard 147 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:41.039 a couple of different variations of this story. Here's the first version of the 148 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:45.799 story that we have. Billy, the kid, ends up meeting with this 149 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:50.279 guy named Sombrero Jack. Shit you not, that's the name that this guy 150 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:54.919 goes by. He's pretty much a local hoodlum whatever. Now, Sombrero Jack 151 00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:01.559 has Billy steal these clothes from a local Chinaman. Now, unfortunately, this 152 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:05.039 was a different time and the whole thinking process behind this was that if they 153 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:11.879 stole from this guy, the local authorities probably wouldn't really care too much because 154 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:16.039 he was a foreigner. Unfortunately, that was the mindset in this time. 155 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:18.399 It was a different era. You know, if they would have gotten caught, 156 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:22.600 then Billy wouldn't have really gotten in trouble because he was still just a 157 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:26.879 young kid. Now, he was supposed to take these clothes, hide him, 158 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:31.320 and then meet up with Sombrero Jack later and give him the clothes. 159 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:35.279 And supposedly he had stolen a couple of pistols as well. That is unconfirmed. 160 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:39.639 I only heard that in a couple places. But the other story that 161 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:48.080 I heard is that basically Sombrero Jack stole the clothes and he told Billy that 162 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:52.320 he would give him some clothes if he ended up getting caught, then Billy 163 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:54.679 would take the fall. Well, Billy's living in a boarding house at this 164 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:58.519 point in time, and he does end up getting caught, the lady who 165 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:03.159 was running the house comes in to check on his room, clean his room, 166 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:05.480 or whatever, finds the clothes, reports it to the local authorities. 167 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:13.120 The local authority just happens to be Sheriff Whitehill, who had arrested Billy previously, 168 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:18.240 so he is you familiar with him. He knows Billy. What they 169 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:24.000 do is he kind of wants to prove a point to Billy, so he 170 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:26.480 arrests him and he puts him in a jail cell. Now, at this 171 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:31.399 point in time, they had traveling judges, so Billy could have been sitting 172 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:35.840 in jail for a few months waiting for a judge to come around, in 173 00:14:35.879 --> 00:14:41.440 which case he probably would have gotten nothing more than probably another warning is slap 174 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:43.559 on the wrist. Maybe they'd put him to work for a little bit. 175 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:48.919 But Billy doesn't know this, and he's just a local kid, and the 176 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:52.200 sheriff knows him. So when they put him in jail, they don't actually 177 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:54.759 put him in a cell. They just kind of let him roam around in 178 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:58.799 that area and don't really keep an eye on him. Well, the sheriff 179 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:03.840 goes out to dinner on September twenty fifth, just a couple of days later, 180 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:07.440 and when he comes back, Billy's gone. The sheriff is looking, 181 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:09.720 He's like, how the hell did he get out of here? Well, 182 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:16.240 what Billy does is he goes up the chimney. You know, they look 183 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:18.840 up the chimney, and they can see in the soot, they can see, 184 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:20.440 you know, a little hand and footprints going all the way up the 185 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:24.240 chimney. Billy climbed his little body all the way up there, got out 186 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:28.159 the top, jumped off the roof, stole a horse, and took off. 187 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:35.320 But this also makes Billy a fugitive at the tender age of about sixteen. 188 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:41.440 So it's a pretty interesting little story right there, because, as you'll 189 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:45.000 come to find, Billy is kind of the Hoodini of the wild West. 190 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:50.080 This guy literally escaped so many times and got out of so much shit that 191 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:56.279 it's honestly amazing. So what Billy does is he ends up going to Clifton, 192 00:15:56.360 --> 00:16:00.519 Arizona to try to track down William Antrum, basically to take him in 193 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:03.440 to ask him for help, any kind of help that he has. Well, 194 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:08.000 he does end up finding his stepfather, and you know, he tells 195 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:12.360 him what happened, and his stepfather pretty much tells him to get out of 196 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:17.279 there, and I don't want anything to do with you, just to leave. 197 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:22.639 So Billy literally is on his own, and he's on the run and 198 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:30.480 unforgiving territory, and he is technically a fugitive So the next time young Billy 199 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:36.600 turns up is right around April of eighteen seventy six, and he's hanging around 200 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:40.879 a Camp Grant, Arizona or Fort Grant, however you want to refer to 201 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:45.919 it as. And he's working at a hotel there, washing dishes and cooking 202 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:49.159 some food, a little place called the Hotel de Luna. This is where 203 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:55.240 he meets up with a guy named John Mackie, and Mackie starts getting him 204 00:16:55.320 --> 00:17:02.120 into stealing horses and stealing saddles. And he's not just stealing them from anybody, 205 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:06.799 he's stealing them from the soldiers who are based at that camp there in 206 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:11.960 Arizona. This is where Billy starts really getting into some trouble. Now Billy 207 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:17.440 is a horse thief, a saddle thief. He's stealing from the soldiers based 208 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:21.559 at this camp there in Arizona. And this is where he starts hanging out 209 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:25.160 with a little bit of the rougher crowd. He's playing cards, he's gambling, 210 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:29.519 he's drinking, and mind you, at this point in time, he's 211 00:17:29.559 --> 00:17:34.880 still merely right around sixteen years old. So in March twenty fifth, eighteen 212 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:41.279 seventy seven, after months of doing this, him and Mackie end up getting 213 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:48.519 caught. They are confined at Camp Grant. Billy escapes later that night and 214 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:52.720 again he is on the run. He doesn't go very far, though, 215 00:17:52.759 --> 00:17:59.960 he still hangs out in that area and on August eighteenth of eighteen seventy seven, 216 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:06.920 this is where Billy officially kills his first man. Now, the circumstances 217 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:12.960 of this are extremely interesting because around Camp Grant there's a local blacksmith named Frank 218 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:19.000 k Hill, known as Wendy k Hill. He was known to bully young 219 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:25.000 Billy the kid quite bad. He would often throw him to the ground. 220 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:29.160 He would open hand slap him in the face. He would humiliate him in 221 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:36.200 front of everybody, and Billy just kinda took it until August eighteenth, eighteen 222 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:42.200 seventy seven, when they were playing cards and Wendy k Hill refers to Billy 223 00:18:42.359 --> 00:18:47.839 as a pimp and a son of a bitch. Well, he's throws Billy 224 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:52.799 to the ground from what witnesses say, about three times, and he takes 225 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:57.920 his knees and he pins him on Billy's shoulders while Billy is on the ground, 226 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:03.200 backface has his back to the ground. He's on the ground he's got 227 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:07.599 him pinned down, and he's literally just open hand slapping Billy in the face, 228 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:14.519 just being a total asshole. They're kind of wrestling around a little bit, 229 00:19:14.599 --> 00:19:18.799 and Billy manages to get one of his arms free and manages to grab 230 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:22.920 a pistol and he takes a shot and hits Ky Hill right in the gut. 231 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:27.880 Now, Kayhill slumps over. Billy kind of wiggles free. Now he 232 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:32.480 takes off, gets it onto the nearest horse that he can find, and 233 00:19:32.599 --> 00:19:36.440 starts riding off. And his luck would have it, the horse that he 234 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:41.000 steals is a racing horse. So Billy is gone into the sunset. Now, 235 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:47.519 all these witnesses, there were several witnesses to this incident that said this 236 00:19:47.640 --> 00:19:52.119 was a clear cut case of self defense. This guy had it coming. 237 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:56.440 What was Billy supposed to do? You know what I'm saying. The only 238 00:19:56.720 --> 00:20:00.759 person who did not think it was self defense was the justice of the peace. 239 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:06.880 Literally, everybody that was a witness, everybody that was asked, everybody 240 00:20:06.920 --> 00:20:10.880 that was there, says it was a clear cut case of self defense. 241 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:15.200 Billy had no choice. So it doesn't take long for him to get captured 242 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:19.720 by local soldiers. Now the best part about this is is because, like 243 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:25.680 I said, Billy is about seventeen eighteen years old at this point in time, 244 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:30.160 and the soldiers take pity on him because he tells them the story of 245 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:33.640 what happened. So they let him go. But they tell him when they 246 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:38.240 let him go, you are a wanted fugitive for murder. Whether it was 247 00:20:38.279 --> 00:20:41.640 in self defense or not. You didn't stick around to find out, you 248 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:47.240 didn't stick around to go to court, so technically you are a fugitive wanted 249 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:49.960 for murder. Billy doesn't care. He takes off and he leaves for New 250 00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:55.400 Mexico. Now, while he's on his way to New Mexico, I'm not 251 00:20:55.440 --> 00:20:57.480 one hundred percent sure if it's in New Mexico or on his way there, 252 00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:04.640 he runs in to some Apache American Indians. These Apache take his guns, 253 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:10.480 they take his horse, and they pretty much leave Billy for dead out in 254 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:14.319 the middle of the desert. Now, I cannot stress enough for those of 255 00:21:14.359 --> 00:21:21.160 you not familiar with the American Southwest, this is unforgiving territory. If you 256 00:21:21.240 --> 00:21:25.839 do not have food, water, a horse, and a weapon of any 257 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:30.319 kind, you will for sure die. So Billy's out here wandering around for 258 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:36.000 a few days, damn near close to death, and he stumbles upon a 259 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:38.960 shack. I believe the shack is owned by the Joneses, I'm not one 260 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:44.359 hundred percent sure. Well, this lady, the lady of the house, 261 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:48.680 takes him in and pretty much nurses him back to health. Now, like 262 00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:52.240 I said, Billy was very very close to death. He was extremely dehydrated 263 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:56.400 at this point in time, and these apache beat the hell out of this 264 00:21:56.480 --> 00:22:00.160 kid. So he gets a nurse back to health and they give him a 265 00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:03.920 horse and tell him, you know, hey, go ahead, get out 266 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:07.759 of here, do what you gotta do. And it is at this point 267 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:14.920 in time that Billy does change his name to William H. Bonnie. So 268 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:19.680 the next time he shows up is about a month later in eighteen seventy seven. 269 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:25.680 This is right around September, and he joins a little gang known as 270 00:22:25.720 --> 00:22:29.640 the Boys, led by Jesse Evans. This gang is also known as the 271 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:33.279 Jesse Evans Gang. And these dudes are legit. They are a gang of 272 00:22:33.440 --> 00:22:38.200 killers and rustlers. Now Billy, who is no stranger to danger, he 273 00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:42.519 has nothing else to lose. He's a young kid and he literally has to 274 00:22:42.559 --> 00:22:48.680 hold his own He pretty much has to stay claim to a reputation that he 275 00:22:48.880 --> 00:22:52.559 is not one to be messed with. These guys are older, they've been 276 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:57.359 around. These are some rough guys, okay, And Billy starts riding with 277 00:22:57.400 --> 00:23:03.200 these guys at at the age of seventeen or eighteen. So the next time 278 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:07.799 he shows up is October of eighteen seventy seven, when the boys ride into 279 00:23:07.880 --> 00:23:12.319 Lincoln County. And it is at this point in time that a man named 280 00:23:12.440 --> 00:23:18.799 Frank Coe actually writes about Billy the Kid. What he writes about is his 281 00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:26.119 ability with pistols. It's really really interesting because he's talking about how Billy can 282 00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:33.119 twirl his pistols while they are cocked one in each hand going the opposite way. 283 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:37.839 There's lots of stories out there about Old West gunslingers, but this is 284 00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:42.960 the first documented thing that I saw about Billy the Kid that someone actually commented 285 00:23:44.079 --> 00:23:48.720 on his abilities with the pistol and how fast he was and how skilled he 286 00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:52.039 was with him. I'll think about it. Billy didn't have nothing else to 287 00:23:52.119 --> 00:23:56.759 do. He was out here doing his thing, living his life, you 288 00:23:56.799 --> 00:24:00.279 know, and he had a lot of time to get really good with those 289 00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:04.119 pistols. I would like to touch base a little bit on what's going on 290 00:24:04.200 --> 00:24:08.000 at Lincoln County at this point in time. All Right, in the early 291 00:24:08.119 --> 00:24:15.279 eighteen seventies, two guys named Lawrence Murphy and James Dolan opened the only store 292 00:24:15.319 --> 00:24:19.240 in all of Lincoln County. They call it the Murphy and Dolan Merchantile and 293 00:24:19.400 --> 00:24:25.599 Banking. Now what they are doing is they have a shipload of cattle and 294 00:24:25.599 --> 00:24:30.200 a shitload of ranches. And what they do is they get these government contracts. 295 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:33.960 Now they owned all the cattle, and they owned the only store that 296 00:24:34.079 --> 00:24:38.720 sells meet in all of Lincoln County. Now, to put this into perspective, 297 00:24:40.599 --> 00:24:45.039 Lincoln County at this point in time is the size of Ireland. This 298 00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:49.839 is a huge, massive county. And for them to own the only cattle, 299 00:24:51.039 --> 00:24:56.119 have a government contract, and own the only store that sells their own 300 00:24:56.200 --> 00:25:02.200 meat, they literally have a monopoly going on it. They have bought all 301 00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:06.799 the local politicians, they have bought all the local law enforcement, which is 302 00:25:06.839 --> 00:25:11.079 only one guy. They have one sheriff in this entire county that goes by 303 00:25:11.079 --> 00:25:17.559 the name of Sheriff William Brady. Now what Dolan and Murphy do is they 304 00:25:17.640 --> 00:25:22.519 form this faction and they call it the House now the House, because they 305 00:25:22.599 --> 00:25:30.559 literally are rich and extremely powerful. They control everything in Lincoln County. If 306 00:25:30.599 --> 00:25:34.880 you want to buy something, trade something, sell something in Lincoln County, 307 00:25:36.200 --> 00:25:41.160 you have to go through the House and there's not much of anybody to stop 308 00:25:41.240 --> 00:25:45.559 them. They have everybody in their pocket. So what happens now is in 309 00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:51.960 February of eighteen seventy seven, an Englishman shows up in Lincoln County. Now, 310 00:25:52.039 --> 00:25:55.960 besides the fact that English and the Irish are not exactly friendly in this 311 00:25:56.119 --> 00:25:59.680 county, I'm not sure about the rest of the world, but they do 312 00:25:59.799 --> 00:26:06.319 have their differences. This guy's name is John Tunstall. He's an English banker 313 00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:11.599 and he ended up coming from Victoria, British Columbia, and he wanted to 314 00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:15.960 invest in some cattle. He had some money to invest somewhere, and he 315 00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:18.200 knew there was a lot of money in the cattle trade down in Lincoln County, 316 00:26:18.200 --> 00:26:22.519 around the Pecos Valley area. What he does is he hooks up with 317 00:26:22.559 --> 00:26:30.119 a guy named Alexander McSween. Now McSween was a former lawyer for the House. 318 00:26:30.559 --> 00:26:34.000 I'm not exactly sure why he ended up wanting to leave the House and 319 00:26:34.039 --> 00:26:38.960 go into business with Tunstall, but that is how it happens. Now, 320 00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:44.160 what they do is McSween pretty much hooks him up with this guy named John 321 00:26:44.279 --> 00:26:49.440 Chisholm. Now John Chisholm is a cattle baron. He is literally known as 322 00:26:49.480 --> 00:26:57.680 the King of Pecos Valley because he owns tens upon thousands of heads of cattle. 323 00:26:59.279 --> 00:27:04.000 When he moved cattle from the Pecos Valley, he moved a hundred thousand 324 00:27:04.119 --> 00:27:08.480 head of cattle at a time. This is a lot of money right here. 325 00:27:08.839 --> 00:27:14.440 And what he does is John Chisholm decides that he wants in on this 326 00:27:14.599 --> 00:27:18.160 too because he knows there's a lot of money to be made in Lincoln because 327 00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:22.359 as of right now, there's only one store there which are owned by the 328 00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:27.480 House Murphy and Dolan. Now John Chisholm's wanting to expand, so he thinks 329 00:27:27.480 --> 00:27:34.839 it's a great idea to back McSween Tunstall. Not only does the House have 330 00:27:36.200 --> 00:27:41.200 the sheriff the local politicians in their pocket, they also have the governor of 331 00:27:41.319 --> 00:27:47.200 the territory, guy by the name of Governor Axtel in their pocket as well. 332 00:27:47.279 --> 00:27:52.279 So they literally are doing whatever they want, whenever they want. And 333 00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:56.559 it is said that one of the reasons. A lot of the locals they 334 00:27:56.599 --> 00:28:02.759 hated the House. All the local rounding Lincoln County and in Lincoln County could 335 00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:07.119 not stand the House because it was a monopoly. They literally did whatever they 336 00:28:07.160 --> 00:28:11.839 wanted. Some of the lands in the surrounding areas. The House would write 337 00:28:11.960 --> 00:28:17.119 up fake foreclosure papers, they would act like they weren't getting paid. They 338 00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:21.359 would go foreclose on people's land, take their shit, take their assets. 339 00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:27.640 People hated the House. So when they see this competition opening up, naturally 340 00:28:29.400 --> 00:28:33.279 they start going to that competition. Now, what the House does is they 341 00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:40.759 start putting a lot of political pressure on Tunstall and McSween. They do that 342 00:28:40.920 --> 00:28:45.559 through like bullshit, little court cases and everything like that little political bullshit. 343 00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:52.759 But Tunstall is a smart guy and he literally refuses to give into them. 344 00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:57.960 So at this point they start threatening violence. So this is kind of where 345 00:28:59.359 --> 00:29:04.720 we jump back to the Billy timeline because when they start threatening violence, Tunstall 346 00:29:04.839 --> 00:29:10.079 knows that he needs protection. He has to hire some tough guys from the 347 00:29:10.200 --> 00:29:15.200 area. This guy is way out of his element. The way he did 348 00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:19.200 business was different than Dolan and Murphy. Dolan was known to literally kill anybody 349 00:29:19.240 --> 00:29:23.680 that got in his way. That's not how John Tunstall did shit. That's 350 00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:26.759 not how they did stuff in England at the time. Like I said, 351 00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:32.160 this was the American wild West. There were no rules. Now, while 352 00:29:32.200 --> 00:29:36.359 all this inner fighting in Lincoln County, it's pretty much a merchant war. 353 00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:40.039 It's referred to as account of war, but it is technically a merchant war 354 00:29:40.759 --> 00:29:45.079 because in the fall of eighteen seventy seven, the house is losing a lot 355 00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:49.799 of money. They are almost struggling to stay afloat at this point in time 356 00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:56.720 because of the competition of Tunstall and McSween. We jump back into Billy. 357 00:29:56.200 --> 00:30:00.720 This is October of eighteen seventy seven when Bill and Jesse Evans and the boys 358 00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:07.000 gang ride back into Lincoln County. Now, right around in November of eighteen 359 00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:12.599 seventy seven, the boys are stealing cattle from anybody that they could. They 360 00:30:12.599 --> 00:30:17.720 were stealing cattle from the house side, they were stealing cattle from the Tunstall 361 00:30:17.759 --> 00:30:21.960 side. They were stealing cattle from John Chisholm. They were wrestlers, they 362 00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:26.920 were killers, they were trying to make a living. So Billy gets caught 363 00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:32.559 stealing a couple of horses from John Tunstall. Now it is right directly around 364 00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:36.880 this time, not one hundred percent sure of win, but Billie and Jesse 365 00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:41.079 Evans have a little bit of a falling out. Billy ends up getting caught 366 00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:45.200 stealing those horses from John Tunstall, so he ends up going to jail there 367 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:49.240 in Lincoln County. Now, while the threats of violence against John Tunstall start 368 00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:55.160 growing and growing, McSween suggests that, hey, you know, maybe you 369 00:30:55.200 --> 00:31:00.400 should hire some tough guys. Maybe you should hire some cowboys to help protect 370 00:31:00.440 --> 00:31:04.279 your ass dude, because these guys are powerful men. They do not care. 371 00:31:04.359 --> 00:31:10.680 They have local law in their pocket. So John Tunstall goes to the 372 00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:15.960 Lincoln County jail and he gets Billy out, and he offers Billy a chance 373 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:21.119 to work on his ranch. His official title was a cattle guard. He 374 00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:25.240 says, I'll give you a job. You can work the ranch. You 375 00:31:25.319 --> 00:31:29.960 offer me protection basically as a bodyguard, and I will make sure that you 376 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:33.920 are taken care of. And he gets Billy out of jail. Now, 377 00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:38.079 Billy agrees to this because this is a chance that he has really never been 378 00:31:38.119 --> 00:31:42.440 given before. You got to think of what this kid has been through in 379 00:31:42.440 --> 00:31:48.240 the last two three years. This guy that he has no idea who he 380 00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:53.119 is is literally getting him out of jail after stealing his cattle and his horses 381 00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:59.759 and giving him a job. So Billy wants to go straight. He's like, 382 00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:04.079 yeah, this is a great opportunity for me to have like a real 383 00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:08.519 job and not do stupid shit anymore. So he gets he gets out of 384 00:32:08.599 --> 00:32:15.200 jail. Now John Tunstall gives him a horse and a rifle. There's a 385 00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:20.599 good possibility this is the first gifts that Billy the Kid has ever been given 386 00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:24.160 in his life. He's got to a strange guy who he literally got caught 387 00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:28.880 stealing from, who is giving him a job, and all he's got to 388 00:32:28.920 --> 00:32:31.519 do is offer him a little bit of protection, guards some of his cattle. 389 00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:37.960 So he's just kind of thrown back by it. But because John Tunstall 390 00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:45.319 gave him this opportunity, despite who he was, Billy at this point in 391 00:32:45.359 --> 00:32:51.519 time just has gained so much respect. He respects John Tunstall like no other. 392 00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:54.519 It's a really cool thing. It's a really cool thing to get in 393 00:32:54.559 --> 00:32:59.880 depth with. Especially you know, I'm no psychologist, but you got to 394 00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:04.519 put yourself in Billy's shoes right now. Billy is not the only local gun 395 00:33:04.599 --> 00:33:08.319 slinger that Tunstall hires. He hires quite a few other guys as well, 396 00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:13.640 because he knows some shit is about to go down now. At the same 397 00:33:13.680 --> 00:33:19.079 time he's hiring all these gun slingers and guys to protect his cattle, the 398 00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:23.000 House is doing the same thing. Well, what the House does is they 399 00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:28.920 go and hire Jesse Evans and some of the boys gang that Billy used to 400 00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:35.000 ride with to do the same thing. Be little bodyguards, offer protection pretty 401 00:33:35.079 --> 00:33:37.079 much, just go and do the dirty work. So, like I had 402 00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:43.440 mentioned before, Billy literally walked into a really bad situation. But he made 403 00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:46.000 a friend in John Tunstall, somebody who believed in him and gave him a 404 00:33:46.119 --> 00:33:53.319 chance. So he is very, very loyal to the Englishman. By February 405 00:33:53.359 --> 00:34:00.839 of eighteen seventy eight, the House is losing a lot of money to Tunstall 406 00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:05.319 in mcsween's other store that they had opened up. They are hurting really, 407 00:34:05.319 --> 00:34:09.039 really bad. So what they do is they go to the local politicians. 408 00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:15.519 And here's why the House is particularly mad at Alexander McSween at this point in 409 00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:22.239 time, because Alexander McSween is the executor of a will of a deceased member 410 00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:27.079 of the House. Guy by the name of Fritz. Now, Dolan and 411 00:34:27.199 --> 00:34:32.199 Murphy had one hundred thousand dollars life insurance policy on this guy, and McSween 412 00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:37.280 refuses to sign off to pay the house the insurance money. Now, the 413 00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:42.159 House needs this money to stay afloat, so they take it to court, 414 00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:46.119 and of course the court is in the House's pocket, so they side with 415 00:34:46.320 --> 00:34:53.000 the house. McSween still refuses to sign off on this life insurance policy and 416 00:34:53.119 --> 00:34:59.480 award the money to the house because he knows the entire court case was total 417 00:34:59.519 --> 00:35:04.519 bullshit because all these dudes are still paid off. So this is when things 418 00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:09.719 start getting really really hairy. On February eighteenth, eighteen seventy eight, the 419 00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:13.840 kid in, some of the other ranch hands that Tunstall had hired, and 420 00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:19.320 Tunstall himself are herding horses into Lincoln. This is like a whole day long 421 00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:22.760 thing. Some say that there were some wild turkeys around, so Billy and 422 00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:27.320 a couple of ranch hands rode off to go shoot some turkeys, and while 423 00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:31.239 they were off in the distance, they see Dolan and Sheriff Brady's men. 424 00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:37.320 Tunstall, who is a pretty calm and collective guy, and unfortunately he thinks 425 00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:43.280 words can settle disputes in this land, and that cannot be further from the 426 00:35:43.320 --> 00:35:47.159 truth. So what happens is Sheriff Brady's men, because what it was with 427 00:35:47.280 --> 00:35:53.679 Sheriff Brady organized a posse. He was the main organizer to go serve warrants 428 00:35:54.199 --> 00:36:00.800 to collect some of Tunstall's assets since McSween wasn't paying the hundred thousand dollars life 429 00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:06.000 insurance policy. It was basically a bunch of written up, fake bullshit. 430 00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:08.920 It was just a way for the house to get back at Tunstall. Well, 431 00:36:08.960 --> 00:36:14.960 they go off, they go to serve these quote unquote warrants and sees 432 00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:20.079 a bunch of his shit. Well Tunstall starts writing up to him. Brady's 433 00:36:20.119 --> 00:36:24.599 men are quoted as saying wait till he gets a little bit closer. Now. 434 00:36:24.599 --> 00:36:29.480 When Tunstall is riding towards them to try to talk to them, he 435 00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:32.320 is shot one time with a rifle and knocked off his horse. At that 436 00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:37.159 point in time, one of the members of the posse walks up and puts 437 00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:40.280 a single shot in the back at Tunstall's head. Now, Billy and the 438 00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:45.000 rest of the guys see this, and not because Billy's a coward, but 439 00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:50.000 because he does have a little bit of common sense. They take off because 440 00:36:50.039 --> 00:36:53.039 they know there's nothing they can do. Otherwise there's a good chance they're probably 441 00:36:53.079 --> 00:36:57.880 gonna get killed too. It. Now, to add insult to injury, 442 00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:02.079 what they do is they not only shoot Tunstall, but they shoot his horse 443 00:37:02.159 --> 00:37:09.239 too, and they position them like they are taking a nap together, just 444 00:37:09.519 --> 00:37:15.559 as a form of humiliation. They put a gun in Tunstall's hand and they 445 00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:17.679 go back and say, well, he fired on us first. We had 446 00:37:17.719 --> 00:37:22.960 no other choice. And of course it's the law. The Sheriff Brady organized 447 00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:27.960 the posse. He had the law in their pocket. The house controlled everything, 448 00:37:28.519 --> 00:37:31.800 ran everything, so there was literally nothing that these guys could do. 449 00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:37.039 Now, while Tunstall is being buried, a guy named Fred Waite and a 450 00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:42.440 guy named Martinez, they attempt to serve warrants to the men who murdered Tunstall, 451 00:37:43.119 --> 00:37:46.199 but they are pretty quickly disarmed. They got their weapons taken from him, 452 00:37:46.280 --> 00:37:51.800 and Sheriff Brady throws them in jail. Now Martinez is allowed to leave. 453 00:37:52.199 --> 00:37:58.880 Billy and Fred Waite are held prisoner until after Tunstall's funeral. They are 454 00:37:58.920 --> 00:38:02.800 released on February where twenty third, eighteen seventy eight, after spending a couple 455 00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:07.239 days in jail, and it is said at this point, and it's unconfirmed, 456 00:38:07.320 --> 00:38:13.519 but I've read this in more than one place that while standing over the 457 00:38:13.559 --> 00:38:17.440 grave of John Tunstall, Billy the Kid known as William H. Bonnie at 458 00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:23.119 this point in time, swears revenge on every single person that killed his friend. 459 00:38:24.079 --> 00:38:29.400 Tunstall's foreman was a guy named Dick Brewer. Dick Brewer was a very 460 00:38:29.480 --> 00:38:34.719 respected guy in Lincoln County at this point in time, and he was also 461 00:38:34.840 --> 00:38:37.920 respected by Billy. He was a very level headed, smart guy. He 462 00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:45.760 was a leader. He gets appointed constable and they have a good enough argument 463 00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:53.800 to justify being able to serve warrants to have Tunstall's murderers arrested. So what 464 00:38:53.960 --> 00:39:00.639 happens is Billy the Kid and a bunch of other ranch hands are deputized. 465 00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:07.880 And what they do is they call themselves the Regulators, because they are going 466 00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:12.840 to go and they are going to serve out their own brand of justice and 467 00:39:12.960 --> 00:39:16.039 they are going to regulate this shit. Now. Some of the known members 468 00:39:16.119 --> 00:39:22.920 of the Regulators are Billy the Kid, Charlie Bowdrey, Dick Brewer who was 469 00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:28.840 the first leader, guy named Henry Brown, Jose Chavez, Chavez, George 470 00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:32.800 Coe, Frank co who I mentioned earlier, who was one of the people 471 00:39:32.840 --> 00:39:38.039 who came out and mentioned and had written about Billy's ability with the pistols, 472 00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:45.559 another guy named Jim French, and then Doc Skurlocke. Now together these guys 473 00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:49.920 were the ones who formed the Regulators. These are the known members. There 474 00:39:50.039 --> 00:39:55.039 are some that joined up later, specifically a guy named Tom o'folliard who does 475 00:39:55.079 --> 00:39:59.320 play a little bit of a role a little bit later on in the story. 476 00:39:59.599 --> 00:40:02.199 And then you have another guy who joined later on by the name of 477 00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:09.559 McCloskey. So within five days of the Regulators getting deputized on March sixth, 478 00:40:09.559 --> 00:40:15.079 eighteen seventy eight, the Regulators arrest Bill Morton and Frank Baker. Now what 479 00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:21.719 happens is a few days later, the Regulators pretty much come to the understanding 480 00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:24.760 that even if they go and take them to court, there's probably nothing going 481 00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:30.840 to be done about it because these guys are members of the House. They 482 00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:35.480 realized that no punishment is ever going to come of this. Now, it's 483 00:40:35.519 --> 00:40:40.119 often said that Billy was the one who really wanted to just straight up kill 484 00:40:40.199 --> 00:40:45.840 these guys. That's totally unconfirmed. We don't know now. Like I said, 485 00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:51.960 these guys really wanted to just kill Morton and Baker because they were two 486 00:40:51.960 --> 00:40:55.079 of the four man posse that had gunned down Tunstall. Now, it is 487 00:40:55.119 --> 00:40:59.679 said that Billy was the one who was very vocal about just shooting them right 488 00:40:59.719 --> 00:41:02.559 on the spot. Now, Dick Brewer was a very level headed guy. 489 00:41:02.719 --> 00:41:06.599 He is very collective. He's like, no, we're gonna do the right 490 00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:08.719 thing. We're gonna take him in, they're gonna stand trial. Well, 491 00:41:08.719 --> 00:41:14.599 what happens is they get about fifteen miles outside of Lincoln County and some ship 492 00:41:14.719 --> 00:41:20.199 goes down. We don't exactly know what happens, but Bill Morton known as 493 00:41:20.199 --> 00:41:24.840 Buck, and Frank Baker are shot down along with a guy named William McCloskey. 494 00:41:25.159 --> 00:41:29.840 Now William McCloskey was a regulator, but he was also believed to be 495 00:41:29.880 --> 00:41:35.400 a trader because he was very weird about a lot of his actions and the 496 00:41:35.480 --> 00:41:37.639 things that he said. It is said that Billy kind of sniffed him out 497 00:41:37.679 --> 00:41:42.840 a little bit. Those guys never made it back to Lincoln County. They 498 00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:46.239 were shot dead. Now, even though the regulators did have warrants, they 499 00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:52.760 really didn't treat him as much as warrants as they did straight up hunting licenses. 500 00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:55.960 It is said that they had a kill list, that they had a 501 00:41:55.960 --> 00:42:00.719 list of men that they were gonna kill that were responsible for the death of 502 00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:05.400 John Tunstall, which you can take that is, you know, one way 503 00:42:05.480 --> 00:42:09.000 or the other, but that is what is stated. On April first, 504 00:42:09.039 --> 00:42:14.440 eighteen seventy eight, some of the members of the Regulators, who were Frank 505 00:42:14.519 --> 00:42:17.639 McNabb, Jim French, Fred Waite, John Middleton, Henry Brown, and 506 00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:24.719 of course Billy the Kid, they're in Lincoln and they see Sheriff Brady and 507 00:42:24.840 --> 00:42:30.280 his deputies, and one of his main deputies was George Hyman. Now they 508 00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:34.239 see him, and they don't see Billy and the rest of the Regulators. 509 00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:38.039 So what they do is the Regulators are hanging out at John Tunstall's store and 510 00:42:38.119 --> 00:42:42.800 they see the sheriff and his posse's little posse and some of his deputies like 511 00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:45.760 start, you know, coming down the street or whatever. So they go 512 00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:52.039 hide in the alley beside Tunstall's store, and as Sheriff Brady and the rest 513 00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:55.199 of the group of his men are walking by, they unload a hail storm 514 00:42:55.239 --> 00:43:01.079 of bullets on him. They shot Hyman dead right there. Several other men 515 00:43:01.159 --> 00:43:07.880 were shot. Sheriff Brady himself was shot eleven times, but he did not 516 00:43:07.079 --> 00:43:12.480 die. He groaned a little bit on the ground and went to sit up, 517 00:43:12.519 --> 00:43:15.719 and he said, oh, he's like I've been shot. And as 518 00:43:15.719 --> 00:43:20.280 soon as he moved and said he'd been shot, they unloaded another hailstorm of 519 00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:23.599 bullets on this dude. They said, probably about a dozen more rounds hit 520 00:43:23.679 --> 00:43:30.880 Sheriff Brady, and the Regulators know that they're more than likely their deputization has 521 00:43:31.000 --> 00:43:36.920 run its course. Now, just three days later, on April fourth, 522 00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:42.800 eighteen seventy eight, the Regulators end up finding another guy who was part of 523 00:43:42.800 --> 00:43:45.400 that little posse, guy by the name of Buckshot Roberts, and they run 524 00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:51.400 into him at a place called Blazer's Mill. Now, this huge gunfight ensues. 525 00:43:52.159 --> 00:43:54.519 Dick Brewer, the leader of the Regulators, and a man that Billy 526 00:43:54.679 --> 00:44:00.840 respected so much, is shot right between the eyes and killed along with Buckshot 527 00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:06.480 Roberts, who also died. Now, Frank co one of the regulators, 528 00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:09.199 had his trigger finger shot off, and John Middleton, also a member of 529 00:44:09.199 --> 00:44:15.840 the Regulators, was wounded in that gunfight. And ironically enough, Dick Brewer 530 00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:21.360 and Buckshot Roberts were buried side by side, which is weird, but that's 531 00:44:21.400 --> 00:44:25.239 how it went down. A couple weeks later, on April eighteenth, eighteen 532 00:44:25.360 --> 00:44:31.199 seventy eight, Billy the Kid, John Middleton, and another guy named Henry 533 00:44:31.239 --> 00:44:37.559 Brown of the Regulators are indicted for the murder of Sheriff Brady. Now this 534 00:44:37.679 --> 00:44:44.519 makes them wanted men like no other. Now, these guys are seriously wanted 535 00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:47.280 at this point in time. And in the next month May of eighteen seventy 536 00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:53.880 eight, Governor Axtel pretty much tells everyone to disarm and stop because shit is 537 00:44:53.920 --> 00:45:00.000 getting way out of hand, all right. Word has gotten to the President 538 00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:05.800 of the United States about the Lincoln County War that is going on right now. 539 00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:10.679 So Axtel, who is under the thumb of the house, nobody takes 540 00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:16.199 him seriously, Nobody listens to him. The fighting ensues. So on July 541 00:45:16.440 --> 00:45:22.159 fourth, eighteen seventy eight, the regulators go to hide it Chisholm's Ranch. 542 00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:27.199 John Chisholm, who if you remember earlier, he was a backer of McSween 543 00:45:27.280 --> 00:45:30.519 and Tunstall, so he was a friend to them. He offered them a 544 00:45:30.599 --> 00:45:32.639 place to hide out, gave him a little bit of protection. So they 545 00:45:32.719 --> 00:45:37.199 hide out there for a couple of weeks until ship dies down a little bit. 546 00:45:37.760 --> 00:45:40.880 On July fifteenth, eighteen seventy eight, they ride back into Lincoln. 547 00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:46.840 Now what happens next is some pretty messed up stuff. Now this is referred 548 00:45:46.920 --> 00:45:53.440 to as the five Day Battle for three days and nights straight. What happens 549 00:45:53.559 --> 00:45:58.760 is is they are at Alexander mcsween's home in Lincoln. This is him, 550 00:45:58.760 --> 00:46:02.159 and there's some of the regulators. They are found out to be there. 551 00:46:02.199 --> 00:46:07.039 What's suspected is that somehow they got coaxed into going there, that it was 552 00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:13.280 some kind of a trap. Now what happens is the new sheriff, Sheriff 553 00:46:13.320 --> 00:46:16.239 Pippen, shows up and surrounds the house. But he is not alone. 554 00:46:16.440 --> 00:46:22.559 He shows up with the United States Cavalry led by Colonel Dudley. This is 555 00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:30.639 no bullshit. They have this entire house surrounded. You got McSween, You 556 00:46:30.760 --> 00:46:34.760 have mcsween's wife, Susan, and you have their two kids in the house 557 00:46:34.840 --> 00:46:38.679 along with some of the regulators. And what the cavalry and the sheriff do 558 00:46:39.079 --> 00:46:44.360 is they set the house on fire to smoke them out. Now this fire 559 00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:50.119 is burning very very slowly doesn't get torched right away. Well, this is 560 00:46:50.159 --> 00:46:54.599 towards the end of the standoff, and on July nineteenth, just four days 561 00:46:54.639 --> 00:47:00.639 after the initial gunfight started, and on a side and hope this is really 562 00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:06.679 really cool. Susan McSween did survive this, and she probably survived this because 563 00:47:06.719 --> 00:47:12.519 of Billy himself. She goes on to talk later years about Billy's personality and 564 00:47:12.559 --> 00:47:15.960 says, he's literally one of the sweetest guys she had ever met. She's 565 00:47:15.039 --> 00:47:22.039 like the way he was portrayed in later books and by a lot of historians 566 00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:25.159 wasn't right. She's like, he was one of the nicest, most honest, 567 00:47:25.239 --> 00:47:29.719 loyal guys you could ever meet. But she goes on to tell a 568 00:47:29.840 --> 00:47:35.840 story that she had a grand piano in the house and Billy knew that she 569 00:47:36.039 --> 00:47:40.079 loved this piano. So as the house is burning down room by room, 570 00:47:40.760 --> 00:47:46.800 Billy and a couple other regulators kept moving this piano from room to room so 571 00:47:46.840 --> 00:47:51.559 that it would not get damaged by the fire, which I thought was a 572 00:47:51.639 --> 00:47:54.320 really really cool story. And I'm going to take that as fact because that 573 00:47:54.480 --> 00:48:00.760 is something that Susan McSween did say, Like I had said on on the 574 00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:06.280 fourth day of this standoff, on July nineteenth, eighteen seventy eight, it 575 00:48:06.360 --> 00:48:08.880 all comes to a head. They need to get out of this house bad. 576 00:48:09.519 --> 00:48:15.400 But above all else, Billy is very vocal on the fact that Susan 577 00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:20.000 and the kids need to get out of this house. They do not need 578 00:48:20.039 --> 00:48:23.199 to be in here. He doesn't care about himself. During the standoff, 579 00:48:23.199 --> 00:48:29.760 Alex McSween, Francisco Zamora, and Harvey Morris are all killed on the Regulator's 580 00:48:29.800 --> 00:48:32.679 side. Now on the Dolan side, a guy named Robert Beckwith is killed. 581 00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:38.440 And what ends up happening how Billy gets away is he calls for four 582 00:48:38.519 --> 00:48:44.079 volunteers. And I'm gonna tell you right now, anybody that says Billy the 583 00:48:44.199 --> 00:48:47.239 kid was a coward has no idea what they were talking about. This dude 584 00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:53.320 had balls of steel. He straight up as for four volunteers with him to 585 00:48:53.480 --> 00:48:59.000 be decoys so that Susan McSween and the kids can get out of this house. 586 00:48:59.760 --> 00:49:02.880 And I shit you not. While this house is burning to the ground, 587 00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:10.440 surrounded by US cavalry and a shitload of Sheriff's deputies, they've come out 588 00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:16.159 the back door firing, and what they walk into is a hailstorm of bullets. 589 00:49:17.079 --> 00:49:22.000 There were three people on the regulator side that did lose their life, 590 00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:27.840 alex McSween being one of them. How Billy got out of this alive is 591 00:49:27.920 --> 00:49:32.119 beyond me. It's nothing short of amazing. But Billy did get out, 592 00:49:32.239 --> 00:49:37.320 Susan mcsweene and the kids did end up living as well. Now Billy does 593 00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:40.760 end up escaping. He goes down the riverbed up the other side and is 594 00:49:40.840 --> 00:49:45.840 pretty much gone. Now, to put this into perspective for you, Alexander 595 00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:52.239 McSween when he came out of that house was shot more than a hundred times. 596 00:49:52.519 --> 00:49:57.199 Just to put that into perspective, he was riddled with more than a 597 00:49:57.360 --> 00:50:02.440 hundred rounds. Billy and the other four decoys, Billy especially was not even 598 00:50:02.519 --> 00:50:07.880 grazed. Now, Billy does decide to get out of Dodge for a while. 599 00:50:08.360 --> 00:50:13.320 He goes to Texas where he's stolen some horses, and they are, 600 00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:16.800 you know, selling him to some dudes in Texas. Not much as really 601 00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:22.639 going on. On September fourth of eighteen seventy eight, Governor Axtel is removed 602 00:50:22.840 --> 00:50:28.719 from office and replaced by a guy named Lou Wallace. Now, a little 603 00:50:28.840 --> 00:50:34.360 history lesson for you. Governor Lou Wallace was an Indiana guy. He was 604 00:50:34.440 --> 00:50:39.559 a pretty shrewd guy. Lou Wallace takes control of Lincoln County and that entire 605 00:50:39.719 --> 00:50:44.559 territory at this point in time. From this point on, the House also 606 00:50:44.679 --> 00:50:49.280 knows, oh shit, we don't have this dude paid off or anything. 607 00:50:49.639 --> 00:50:52.840 So maybe, you know, we need to start thinking a little bit of 608 00:50:52.920 --> 00:50:58.679 shit. So while he gets appointed new governor right around the end of September 609 00:50:58.719 --> 00:51:01.840 in eighteen seventy eight, it is said on a side note that another gang 610 00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:07.840 referred to as the Wrestlers come through Lincoln County and they're led by a man 611 00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:15.559 named John Selman. Now what they start doing is stealing livestock robbery. They 612 00:51:15.679 --> 00:51:21.039 kill any man or boy who gets in their way, along with raping women. 613 00:51:21.519 --> 00:51:27.440 Now in early October, Billy is still in Texas selling some horses that 614 00:51:27.519 --> 00:51:35.199 he had previously stolen. But he decides in about November to come back to 615 00:51:35.320 --> 00:51:39.559 Lincoln. Now, on November thirteenth, eighteen seventy eight, Governor Wallace issues 616 00:51:39.599 --> 00:51:46.079 a proclamation of amnesty for all parties involved in the Lincoln County War. Now 617 00:51:46.119 --> 00:51:52.000 what this means is that any person that had not formally been indicted on charges 618 00:51:52.519 --> 00:51:59.239 could come forward and be issued a pardon as long as all of the fighting 619 00:51:59.400 --> 00:52:04.840 stopped. Because of the murder of Sheriff Brady, Billy is exempt from this 620 00:52:05.239 --> 00:52:09.039 and he knows that. So the kid ends up returning to Lincoln County in 621 00:52:09.480 --> 00:52:14.199 early December of eighteen seventy eight. He's tired of running, he's tired of 622 00:52:14.199 --> 00:52:17.199 the bullshit. Even though he's good at living on the lamb, he kind 623 00:52:17.239 --> 00:52:22.880 of wants to make peace. So what he does is he writes a letter 624 00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:29.320 to his old gang buddy Jesse Evans, and he kind of wants a truce. 625 00:52:29.400 --> 00:52:35.239 He writes a truce and they accept the offer. So on February eighteenth 626 00:52:35.239 --> 00:52:39.280 of eighteen seventy nine, the kid meets up with Evans in Lincoln and they 627 00:52:39.360 --> 00:52:45.159 literally write up a contract for a truce. Now this is literally Dolan is 628 00:52:45.239 --> 00:52:51.480 involved in this as well. Peace treaty ends up getting formed like they literally 629 00:52:51.559 --> 00:52:54.920 lined up on each wall of the street, came together, shook hands, 630 00:52:55.000 --> 00:53:00.400 put their guns away, and a truce was formed. This truth does not 631 00:53:00.559 --> 00:53:06.119 last very long because they're in a bar drinking later that night. Along with 632 00:53:06.159 --> 00:53:10.159 this truce is Susan mcsween's attorney, a guy by the name of Houston Chapman. 633 00:53:10.920 --> 00:53:15.119 They're all drinking, having a good time in the saloon and Jesse Evans 634 00:53:15.159 --> 00:53:21.559 and some of the other boys are harassing Houston Chapman, the attorney, And 635 00:53:21.719 --> 00:53:27.199 what happens is James Dolan ends up shooting him and killing him right there on 636 00:53:27.239 --> 00:53:30.880 the spot. Now, after this, Billy is like, you know what 637 00:53:30.320 --> 00:53:35.519 this like, There's no way we're gonna end up being able to form any 638 00:53:35.599 --> 00:53:38.440 kind of true side of this, So he gets out of dodge. Now. 639 00:53:38.480 --> 00:53:43.800 About a month later, on March thirteenth, eighteen seventy nine, the 640 00:53:43.920 --> 00:53:47.079 Kid ends up writing in one of his first letters to Governor lou Wallace, 641 00:53:49.079 --> 00:53:54.519 and he states that he'll be willing to surrender and testify against Chapman's killers and 642 00:53:54.880 --> 00:54:01.920 Tunstall's killers for a pardon. Now, by doing this, he totally breaks 643 00:54:01.960 --> 00:54:07.639 the truce that was formed by Evans and Dolan and the regulators. And by 644 00:54:07.800 --> 00:54:14.599 breaking this truce this is punishable by death. Now, the Governor on March 645 00:54:14.639 --> 00:54:17.519 fifteenth, eighteen seventy nine, just two days later, writes Billy the Kid 646 00:54:17.559 --> 00:54:22.039 back, telling them that he would like to meet with him to discuss the 647 00:54:22.199 --> 00:54:25.679 terms. And it's really cool because at the end of this letter, Governor 648 00:54:25.679 --> 00:54:30.760 Wallace says, and I quote, if you can trust Jesse Evans, you 649 00:54:30.760 --> 00:54:35.360 can trust me. So another couple days later, on March seventeenth, eighteen 650 00:54:35.440 --> 00:54:40.000 seventy nine, the kid and the governor meet and an arrangement is made. 651 00:54:40.320 --> 00:54:45.000 And what it is is Governor Lou Wallace wants to take him in for a 652 00:54:45.079 --> 00:54:49.880 fake arrest. Now while this is going on, he would come in, 653 00:54:50.039 --> 00:54:55.920 he would testify in court against Dolan, Jesse Evans, and Colonel Dudley, 654 00:54:57.239 --> 00:55:00.840 and he would be pardoned. Now, like I said, Arnold Dudley was 655 00:55:00.840 --> 00:55:07.000 a cavalry officer who was involved in killing a couple of innocent people, the 656 00:55:07.079 --> 00:55:12.159 main one being Alex McSween. And obviously we know of Dolan and we do 657 00:55:12.280 --> 00:55:17.119 know of Jesse Evans. So what happens a few days later on March twenty 658 00:55:17.199 --> 00:55:22.320 first, what's supposed to happen is they are going to be quote unquote fake 659 00:55:22.480 --> 00:55:29.679 arrested and they are going to go into voluntary confinement. And this is kind 660 00:55:29.719 --> 00:55:34.840 of for their own protection. Now, Billy knows that if something went wrong, 661 00:55:34.880 --> 00:55:37.280 he was pretty much writing his own death worrd at this point in time, 662 00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:43.880 because he is testifying against these guys, he's breaking the truth. I 663 00:55:43.960 --> 00:55:49.440 mean seriously, like, these guys are not people to turn your back on. 664 00:55:50.039 --> 00:55:54.559 You cannot trust him whatsoever. So on March twenty first, Billy the 665 00:55:54.639 --> 00:55:59.320 Kid and one of the regulators, Tom o'folliard, are arrested and brought to 666 00:55:59.400 --> 00:56:04.960 Lincoln. On April fourteenth, just about three weeks later, on eighteen seventy 667 00:56:05.039 --> 00:56:10.800 nine, the Kid testifies in court against Chapman's murderers, which would have been 668 00:56:10.960 --> 00:56:15.480 Dolan and Jesse Evans. And then just another two weeks later, on May 669 00:56:15.519 --> 00:56:21.400 twenty eighth of the same year, the Kid goes on to testify against Colonel 670 00:56:21.480 --> 00:56:25.000 Dudley for his involvement in the siege of the McSween home. Now, as 671 00:56:25.039 --> 00:56:30.519 you can imagine, these guys were not found guilty. Absolutely none of them 672 00:56:30.519 --> 00:56:37.039 were found guilty. Because even though Governor lou Wallace is not on the take 673 00:56:37.079 --> 00:56:42.360 of the house, the judge and the politicians still are. So these guys 674 00:56:42.360 --> 00:56:46.559 are found innocent. It was either innocent or a mistrial I cannot remember specifically. 675 00:56:47.480 --> 00:56:53.840 So Billy never really gets his pardon. What happens is the judge in 676 00:56:53.880 --> 00:57:00.800 the case ignores the governor's pardon and keeps Billy can find. Now he's sitting 677 00:57:00.840 --> 00:57:07.639 in jail voluntarily for three months, Billy keeps writing him letters, you know, 678 00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:10.679 saying, Hey, you know, we need to talk about the pardon. 679 00:57:12.400 --> 00:57:15.800 I feel like i'm you know, you're pretty much screwing me over to 680 00:57:15.920 --> 00:57:20.800 put it into context, you know, on June seventeenth, eighteen seventy nine, 681 00:57:20.880 --> 00:57:24.800 Billy simply got up and walked out of jail and wrote off and by 682 00:57:24.880 --> 00:57:29.800 October of eighteen seventy nine he goes back to doing what he does best, 683 00:57:29.960 --> 00:57:34.519 living on the lamb and rustling, and the kid lives pretty quietly for the 684 00:57:34.559 --> 00:57:42.440 next couple of months until January tenth of eighteen eighty a drunk guy in Fort 685 00:57:42.480 --> 00:57:45.719 Sumner because this is where Billy's at. The people of Fort Sumner offered Billy 686 00:57:45.760 --> 00:57:51.719 a lot of protection. They hid him whenever he needed it because these were 687 00:57:51.760 --> 00:57:57.079 his people. Billy spoke fluent Spanish, and at this point in time, 688 00:57:57.119 --> 00:58:01.440 he also had himself a little girlfriend by the name of Paulina Maxwell. And 689 00:58:01.719 --> 00:58:07.119 these people around Fort Sumner loved him. He was pretty much their hero. 690 00:58:07.800 --> 00:58:12.719 And the reason that he was their hero is because he was a one man 691 00:58:12.960 --> 00:58:21.400 army against an entire corrupt political situation that we're screwing all of these people over. 692 00:58:22.079 --> 00:58:24.880 They loved him, They gave him whatever he wanted, They offered him 693 00:58:24.880 --> 00:58:30.039 protection when they needed it. So this was his safe place. So on 694 00:58:30.159 --> 00:58:34.800 January tenth, eighteen eighty, there's some drunk guy hanging out Fort Sumner named 695 00:58:34.960 --> 00:58:39.159 Joe Grant. Now Joe Grant is supposedly a bounty hunter and he is on 696 00:58:39.519 --> 00:58:45.559 the hunt for Billy the kid. Well, Billy knows this all right, 697 00:58:45.599 --> 00:58:49.119 now, he doesn't know what Billy looks like or anything like that. The 698 00:58:49.199 --> 00:58:52.719 way the story goes is that Billy just kind of asks him to see his 699 00:58:52.840 --> 00:58:58.239 gun, and what he does is he takes his gun and kind of moves 700 00:58:58.280 --> 00:59:01.280 the chamber. Because what you did with a six shooter is you've kept one 701 00:59:01.320 --> 00:59:07.119 chamber empty. That way your pistol would misfire. You know, these weren't 702 00:59:07.159 --> 00:59:10.679 the greatest weapons on earth, even though they were seriously reliable. Well, 703 00:59:10.679 --> 00:59:15.159 what Billy does is he adjust sit to where that empty chamber is the next 704 00:59:15.159 --> 00:59:21.480 one out. He pretty much just to starts a fight with old Joe Grant 705 00:59:21.519 --> 00:59:24.960 here Now, when Billy turns his back, he hears the gun go click, 706 00:59:25.679 --> 00:59:29.920 and at that point in time, Billy turns around, puts his pistol 707 00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:34.639 under Joe Grant's chin, and pulls the trigger three times. How much of 708 00:59:34.679 --> 00:59:37.679 that is truth, We're not too sure. I've heard anywhere from one time 709 00:59:37.840 --> 00:59:43.920 he shot him to three times. But Billy did definitely kill that dude. 710 00:59:44.159 --> 00:59:47.480 And he goes back to doing the same ship that he's always been doing. 711 00:59:49.239 --> 00:59:52.599 You know, he's just hanging out for almost a year there in Fort Sumter. 712 00:59:52.280 --> 00:59:58.360 On October sixth, in eighteen eighty, the kid is really getting tired 713 00:59:58.400 --> 01:00:00.920 of living outside the law. He's tired of dodging laws, tired of being 714 01:00:00.960 --> 01:00:06.239 on the lamb. And he writes to a guy named Ira Leonard, who 715 01:00:06.360 --> 01:00:09.159 is a lawyer, and he's saying that he wants to try straightening things out 716 01:00:09.199 --> 01:00:14.039 again with Governor Wallace. Now. He agrees to meet him in White Oaks 717 01:00:14.079 --> 01:00:17.360 within a week. Unfortunately, it takes Billy six weeks to get there, 718 01:00:17.880 --> 01:00:22.639 so Ira Leonard tells him to screw off. The deal is off. Now. 719 01:00:22.679 --> 01:00:27.480 About a month later, on November second, eighteen eighty, Governor Lew 720 01:00:27.559 --> 01:00:31.199 Wallace gets a hold of a guy named Pat Garrett. Pat Garrett is officially 721 01:00:31.440 --> 01:00:38.559 elected sheriff of Lincoln County. And how this happens is Billy is running around 722 01:00:38.599 --> 01:00:45.119 Fort Sumner. If you remember John Chisholm, Billy starts stealing his cattle. 723 01:00:45.800 --> 01:00:49.360 I'm not exactly sure why, because he had a lot of it. There 724 01:00:49.599 --> 01:00:53.079 is probably hard to keep track of. But Billy starts stealing John Chisholm's cattle. 725 01:00:53.159 --> 01:00:58.000 Now, John Chisholm was supposed to be a friend. So Chisholm is 726 01:00:58.039 --> 01:01:01.000 like, listen, this little asshole needs to be dealt with. So what 727 01:01:01.159 --> 01:01:07.760 Chisholm does is he backs Pat Garrett as sheriff. And with backing like that, 728 01:01:07.880 --> 01:01:12.760 you can almost guarantee that Pat Garrett was not going to lose that election. 729 01:01:13.440 --> 01:01:17.760 Now, the stipulation was is that Pat Garrett's first order of business had 730 01:01:17.840 --> 01:01:23.480 to be to eliminate the man known as Billy the kid. You know that 731 01:01:23.679 --> 01:01:28.920 was supposed to be his main order of business. Now, before we go 732 01:01:28.960 --> 01:01:31.199 any further, I do have to take a break. I gotta play a 733 01:01:31.239 --> 01:01:36.119 couple commercials here real quick. I gotta go grab another beer. So you 734 01:01:36.119 --> 01:01:38.840 guys sit tight for about roughly a minute to a minute and a half. 735 01:01:39.000 --> 01:01:45.960 Go refill your drinks. I'll be right back, all right. So to 736 01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:50.159 give you guys a little bit of history on Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett. 737 01:01:50.280 --> 01:01:54.119 Yes, there was a previous friendship there. The extent of it is 738 01:01:54.239 --> 01:02:00.400 not really too well known, but they did ride together and they were friends. 739 01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:04.639 But the extent of their relationship is in Lincoln County. Pat Garrett was 740 01:02:04.840 --> 01:02:09.159 a bartender at a saloon that Billy the Kid used to frequent all the time. 741 01:02:09.199 --> 01:02:13.119 Now, they ended up hanging out for about a year. They were 742 01:02:13.239 --> 01:02:19.280 supposedly really good friends. They actually gave each other nicknames. Pat Garrett was 743 01:02:19.360 --> 01:02:22.320 known as Big Casino. Billy the Kid was known as the Little Casino. 744 01:02:22.639 --> 01:02:28.039 And the reason they got these nicknames is because Pat Garrett was a linky ass 745 01:02:28.039 --> 01:02:34.400 six foot four dude. Billy the Kid full grown, was about five foot 746 01:02:34.480 --> 01:02:37.719 seven, no more than one hundred and forty pounds, soaking wet. So 747 01:02:38.119 --> 01:02:43.639 they gave each other those nicknames. Another set of nicknames. After Pat Garrett 748 01:02:43.639 --> 01:02:46.360 became sheriff, Pat Garrett used to refer to him as a little asshole. 749 01:02:46.880 --> 01:02:51.880 Billy the Kid used to call him the old woman. So while Billy is 750 01:02:51.920 --> 01:02:54.039 in white Oaks. Like I said, he shows up six weeks late for 751 01:02:54.119 --> 01:03:00.000 his meet up with the lawyer Ira Leonard. While he's there, Apostle, 752 01:03:00.039 --> 01:03:02.239 he finds out that he's there, and they surround him at this place called 753 01:03:02.239 --> 01:03:08.119 a Great House Ranch. Now, during this little standoff, a guy named 754 01:03:08.679 --> 01:03:15.000 James Carlyle, who was a deputy, is said to have been killed by 755 01:03:15.159 --> 01:03:20.000 his own men. Now, Billy did get blamed for this murder, and 756 01:03:20.920 --> 01:03:25.760 a lot of the people involved on Billy's side do say Billy didn't do this. 757 01:03:25.760 --> 01:03:30.559 This guy was not killed by him. A lot of the posse after 758 01:03:30.679 --> 01:03:36.280 James Carlyle did die pretty much disbanded, they took off, which would honestly 759 01:03:36.360 --> 01:03:42.239 lead you to believe that it is a good possibility that that he was killed 760 01:03:42.239 --> 01:03:45.079 by his own men. Now, later on, Billy would go on to 761 01:03:45.159 --> 01:03:51.800 say, quote, there's more about the killing than people known, which means 762 01:03:52.199 --> 01:03:55.760 there's a lot of shit going on to where you know, you guys just 763 01:03:55.800 --> 01:04:00.960 don't understand what exactly happened. And that's true. Nobody knows. Now. 764 01:04:00.960 --> 01:04:06.639 This happened on November twenty seventh of eighteen eighty, all right about three weeks 765 01:04:06.679 --> 01:04:12.039 after Pat Garrett gets elected Sheriff. Now, on December twelfth, eighteen eighty, 766 01:04:12.039 --> 01:04:15.320 the kid rights Governor Wallace again. This time he's pleading for his innocence 767 01:04:15.559 --> 01:04:21.440 and concerning the death of Deputy Carlyle and some of his rustling activities in the 768 01:04:21.559 --> 01:04:27.559 territory. Because Billy is really kept pretty quiet up until this point, you 769 01:04:27.599 --> 01:04:30.599 know, and Governor Wallace pretty much ignores him, he does not write him 770 01:04:30.599 --> 01:04:36.119 back. So on December fourteenth, eighteen eighty, Sheriff Garrett finds out that 771 01:04:36.320 --> 01:04:42.159 Billy the Kid more than likely is in back in Fort Sumner, and he 772 01:04:42.239 --> 01:04:45.719 forms a posse and they start to hunt for Billy the Kid. Now, 773 01:04:45.760 --> 01:04:50.199 around December fourteenth, eighteen eighty, Pat Garrett and a posse began the official 774 01:04:50.320 --> 01:04:54.840 hunt for Billy the Kid. He hears word that he might be in Fort 775 01:04:54.880 --> 01:04:57.320 Sumner and he's like, well, shit, I know people there. My 776 01:04:57.400 --> 01:05:00.679 wife is from Fort Sumner, so we should have no problem tracking him down. 777 01:05:01.360 --> 01:05:05.639 And the very next day, Governor lou Wallace puts out a five hundred 778 01:05:05.639 --> 01:05:13.039 dollar reward for the kids. Capture a little bit of background on Pat Garrett, 779 01:05:13.079 --> 01:05:17.280 you know a lot of his history aside, Pat Garrett is a pretty 780 01:05:17.320 --> 01:05:21.719 bad compulsive gambler. He's always losing money, he's always in debt. So 781 01:05:21.760 --> 01:05:28.039 he sees his five hundred bucks and he's all about it. So on December 782 01:05:28.440 --> 01:05:33.400 nineteenth, eighteen eighty, they're in Fort Sumner and Pat Garrett and his men 783 01:05:34.320 --> 01:05:39.039 are stationed out there. Okay, now just imagine this picture of this for 784 01:05:39.119 --> 01:05:44.880 one minute. It's a full moon outside, it's dark out, there's about 785 01:05:44.960 --> 01:05:49.760 three inches of crisp snow on the ground, and you see this gang down 786 01:05:49.760 --> 01:05:54.119 the side of this hill, single file. And Pat Garrett's like, I 787 01:05:54.800 --> 01:05:58.719 know this is the kid. I know he's got to be leading these guys. 788 01:05:59.280 --> 01:06:02.599 So he's sick. First posse to start shooting, and they start shooting. 789 01:06:03.199 --> 01:06:09.000 The only person that gets hit is a guy named Tomo Folliard, who 790 01:06:09.119 --> 01:06:13.719 is a member of the Regulators. Now they pretty much see the extent of 791 01:06:13.719 --> 01:06:16.440 the damage if Tomo Folliard and they keep going, they pretty much leave him 792 01:06:16.480 --> 01:06:21.960 for dead. Now the other Regulators escape. Pat Garrett and his posse are 793 01:06:23.000 --> 01:06:25.400 like, shit, you know, we didn't kill him. We killed the 794 01:06:25.400 --> 01:06:29.079 wrong guy. Now. A few days later, about four days later, 795 01:06:29.119 --> 01:06:33.639 on December twenty third, eighteen eighty, they end up tracking Billy the kid 796 01:06:33.639 --> 01:06:40.480 and his gang to this tiny little rock hut basically right around a place called 797 01:06:40.519 --> 01:06:45.559 Stinking Springs. Now what happens here is Pat Garrett is like, listen, 798 01:06:45.880 --> 01:06:49.400 wet up. The first time we shot the wrong guy. I know Billy, 799 01:06:49.519 --> 01:06:54.400 the kid, I know what he looks like, I know what he 800 01:06:54.519 --> 01:07:00.599 wears. You wait for my signal so we don't make another mistake. And 801 01:07:00.719 --> 01:07:05.519 what happens is Charlie Bowdre comes out the front. Billy had a very specific 802 01:07:05.559 --> 01:07:10.119 hat that he used to war. He used to wore this um like smaller 803 01:07:10.159 --> 01:07:14.239 size some brero with like a green band around the head part of it. 804 01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:17.920 Well, it just so happens that Charlie Bowdre was wearing the same type of 805 01:07:17.960 --> 01:07:23.800 hat. And he comes out and they think it's the kid. So Pat 806 01:07:23.840 --> 01:07:28.599 Garrett gives the order to fire. He gives a signal, and they shoot 807 01:07:28.679 --> 01:07:32.079 Charlie Bowdre down. Now this is after a little bit of a standoff. 808 01:07:32.719 --> 01:07:36.880 They had a standoff for probably a good day. And the whole time, 809 01:07:36.920 --> 01:07:41.960 Billy's just taunting Pat Garrett. I'm not even gonna bullshit you. He knows 810 01:07:42.000 --> 01:07:45.840 that if he walks out of there, he's either getting killed or he's getting 811 01:07:45.239 --> 01:07:50.039 taken back to Lincoln charged with murder and gonna be hanged, But he's sitting 812 01:07:50.079 --> 01:07:56.599 there fucking around with Pat Garrett just blowing him shit. After the death of 813 01:07:56.719 --> 01:08:01.599 Charlie Bowdre, which really affected Billy the Kid because think about it this way, 814 01:08:02.320 --> 01:08:06.719 the only people in Billy the Kid's life that ever showed him respect, 815 01:08:08.199 --> 01:08:13.320 where ever cared about him for that matter, where his mother, John Tunstall, 816 01:08:13.639 --> 01:08:19.159 Dick Brewer, McSween, Charlie Bowdrey, and Tomo Filliard. They've all 817 01:08:19.199 --> 01:08:24.720 been killed. Billy has pretty much nothing, so after a little while, 818 01:08:24.760 --> 01:08:29.479 he does end up surrendering. Now, in between this time of Christmas of 819 01:08:29.600 --> 01:08:35.680 eighteen eighty and at about March twenty eighth of eighteen eighty one, Billy the 820 01:08:35.760 --> 01:08:42.000 Kid is being transported for trial, and this whole time he's writing letters to 821 01:08:42.239 --> 01:08:46.479 Governor Lew Wallace again, and at one point he even threatens to expose the 822 01:08:46.560 --> 01:08:51.760 letters that Governor Lew Wallace had written him two years earlier about the pardon that 823 01:08:51.840 --> 01:08:57.720 he was promised that he was never given. Billy is really really frustrated at 824 01:08:57.760 --> 01:09:01.520 this point in time, because he he could trust this guy. He literally 825 01:09:01.600 --> 01:09:06.520 promised him a pardon if he testified against all these people and he did not 826 01:09:06.720 --> 01:09:12.159 follow through with it, Billy put his life on the line. And I 827 01:09:12.239 --> 01:09:15.279 know some of you are sitting there like, the dude's a stone cold killer, 828 01:09:15.720 --> 01:09:17.680 you know what. Yeah, he is. But when you're promised a 829 01:09:17.720 --> 01:09:23.159 pardon to testify against people that will literally shoot you in the face as soon 830 01:09:23.199 --> 01:09:26.680 as you walk out of the courtroom, that's kind of not right, you 831 01:09:26.720 --> 01:09:30.640 know what I mean. That's not how the government when they offer you a 832 01:09:30.720 --> 01:09:34.840 pardon, is not supposed to work that way. Now, what happens is 833 01:09:35.720 --> 01:09:41.720 he knows that he's running out of time and he's on thin ice. So 834 01:09:41.760 --> 01:09:46.079 on March thirtieth and eighteen eighty one, the kids first trial for killing Buckshot 835 01:09:46.159 --> 01:09:53.439 Roberts goes ahead and commences. About seven days later, the case is dismissed 836 01:09:53.479 --> 01:09:57.640 due to a technicality. Now two days after that, on April eighth, 837 01:09:57.720 --> 01:10:02.239 eighteen eighty one, the kids se trial commences for the killing of Sheriff Brady. 838 01:10:02.680 --> 01:10:06.359 The very next day, on April ninth, eighteen eighty one, the 839 01:10:06.479 --> 01:10:13.039 kid has found guilty of first degree murder and his sentence to death by hanging. 840 01:10:13.359 --> 01:10:16.039 Now, think about this for a second. Out of all the people 841 01:10:16.439 --> 01:10:23.960 involved and the Lincoln County War, the one guy on the losing side who 842 01:10:24.079 --> 01:10:31.079 was involved in every single little gunfight is the only person to have ever been 843 01:10:31.119 --> 01:10:39.039 convicted of any crimes involved in the Lincoln County Wars. Everybody else that were 844 01:10:39.039 --> 01:10:43.079 actually tried in a court of law, we're all acquitted or pardoned. Does 845 01:10:43.119 --> 01:10:46.399 that seem fair to you, because it honestly does not seem very fair to 846 01:10:46.439 --> 01:10:53.399 me. During the Lincoln County War, roughly seventy five to eighty people died, 847 01:10:54.039 --> 01:11:00.399 and Billy the Kid was the only person who was convicted and given a 848 01:11:00.479 --> 01:11:04.880 sentence. That right there is pretty fed up if you ask me. Now, 849 01:11:04.920 --> 01:11:11.159 Billy the Kid is sentenced to hang on May thirteenth, between the hours 850 01:11:11.159 --> 01:11:15.359 of nine am and three pm. Now he is sentenced on April thirteenth of 851 01:11:15.479 --> 01:11:20.439 eighteen eighty one, so he knows he's roughly got about a month to live. 852 01:11:21.039 --> 01:11:25.920 Now. On April twenty first of eighteen eighty one, the Kid arrives 853 01:11:25.960 --> 01:11:30.079 back in Lincoln and is jailed in the local courthouse. Now, while he's 854 01:11:30.119 --> 01:11:33.920 there, he's jailed by two local deputies, one of which being J. 855 01:11:34.239 --> 01:11:39.800 W. Bell and the other one being a guy named Bob Ollinger. Now, 856 01:11:40.159 --> 01:11:44.439 the whole time Billy is in jail, he's waiting to be hanged. 857 01:11:44.920 --> 01:11:48.520 Pat Garrett is pretty much out of town at this point in time. He 858 01:11:48.680 --> 01:11:51.760 is the only sheriff in the county, so he's out doing other shit. 859 01:11:51.880 --> 01:11:59.199 He's collecting taxes and he's also collecting wood to build the gallows for Billy the 860 01:11:59.279 --> 01:12:02.800 kid his at one point in time. Friend. So what happens is while 861 01:12:02.800 --> 01:12:06.640 he's in jail, the whole time, this guy, Bob Ollinger, just 862 01:12:06.800 --> 01:12:14.119 keeps harassing the shit out of him. While he's confined, Bob Ollinger keeps 863 01:12:14.159 --> 01:12:17.039 telling him, Hey, I got this brand new shotgun. He's sitting there 864 01:12:17.039 --> 01:12:21.840 cleaning this shotgun, just looking at Billy the Kid, literally begging him to 865 01:12:23.000 --> 01:12:28.000 try to escape. He's like, please, please escape. I got this 866 01:12:28.119 --> 01:12:30.319 brand new shotgun. I want to use it on you. He's like, 867 01:12:30.399 --> 01:12:35.039 I want to kill you so bad. And Billy the Kid literally is just 868 01:12:35.319 --> 01:12:41.439 not even really phased by it for some odd reason. And Billy the Kid's 869 01:12:41.479 --> 01:12:46.640 brain if he's pretty much gotten out of any situation imaginable. He's escaped from 870 01:12:46.720 --> 01:12:54.920 jail numerous times. He's walked away from gunfights, unscathed. So he's always 871 01:12:54.960 --> 01:12:58.079 an optimist. He's always got it in the back of his mind, like 872 01:12:58.279 --> 01:13:01.680 I will get out of this, I will away. So what happens is 873 01:13:02.640 --> 01:13:08.399 Bob Ollinger puts his shotgun in the arsenal and he takes a couple other prisoners 874 01:13:08.479 --> 01:13:12.000 over across the street to the restaurant to get some dinner for the night. 875 01:13:12.439 --> 01:13:16.159 Now this is about right around six pm, I believe. So he's gone 876 01:13:16.199 --> 01:13:21.399 and J. W. Bell is a younger deputy and he's tasked with guarding 877 01:13:21.439 --> 01:13:27.359 Billy the kid. Now, the next events are not exactly known. There's 878 01:13:27.399 --> 01:13:31.800 two different stories, one of which being Billy asks to go to the bathroom, 879 01:13:32.159 --> 01:13:36.279 which would be outside in the outhouse. Now, one story goes is 880 01:13:36.319 --> 01:13:43.800 that a local sympathizer because these people still did not like the house at all, 881 01:13:44.199 --> 01:13:46.880 hit a gun in the outhouse for him to break out a jail with. 882 01:13:47.920 --> 01:13:51.319 And while he was in the outhouse, he managed to get one of 883 01:13:51.359 --> 01:13:58.119 his shackles off his hands. Now, historically, you know what you see 884 01:13:58.520 --> 01:14:01.399 in the movie Young Guns is pretty fin right. He had big risks and 885 01:14:01.680 --> 01:14:06.840 very small girly hands. So this dude was able to slip out of shackles 886 01:14:06.920 --> 01:14:12.840 fairly easily, all right. So while he's in the outhouse, somebody either 887 01:14:12.920 --> 01:14:15.640 planted the gun, we don't know, but we do know that he manages 888 01:14:15.680 --> 01:14:19.880 to get one of his hands out of the shackles. Now, the other 889 01:14:19.920 --> 01:14:23.840 part of the story is is that he does go to the outhouse, gets 890 01:14:23.880 --> 01:14:27.680 his hand out of the shackles. But while he gets back into the jail, 891 01:14:28.079 --> 01:14:31.159 the other half of the story is that he literally takes JW. Bell's 892 01:14:31.199 --> 01:14:36.319 gun out of his holster and uses it on him. Now, JW. 893 01:14:36.359 --> 01:14:41.159 Bell is shot through the chest and the hole goes right through him into the 894 01:14:41.199 --> 01:14:45.119 wall. There is also another part of the story that says Billy kind of 895 01:14:45.119 --> 01:14:50.239 fired like a like a warning shot to JW. Bell and the bullet ricochet 896 01:14:50.479 --> 01:14:55.760 and hit him in the chest. Personally, that one is not very believable. 897 01:14:56.359 --> 01:14:59.800 It is one of the other stories out there. The local people hear 898 01:14:59.840 --> 01:15:03.600 the gunshot, and the first thing that they think is that Bell shot the 899 01:15:03.680 --> 01:15:10.199 kid. While Bob Ollinger is coming across the street from the restaurant, JW. 900 01:15:10.239 --> 01:15:14.359 Bell is stumbling out the front door of the courthouse and he falls face 901 01:15:14.479 --> 01:15:17.359 down dead right there on the street. Now, there was a witness at 902 01:15:17.399 --> 01:15:21.880 the scene, guy by the last name of Goss. Now what he says 903 01:15:23.239 --> 01:15:29.800 is that Bob Ollinger comes walking across the street after he shot Bell. Billy 904 01:15:29.880 --> 01:15:34.960 the Kid goes and he gets that shotgun from the arsenal that Bob Bollinger was 905 01:15:35.039 --> 01:15:41.760 taunting him with, and he sits on the second story where his cell is 906 01:15:42.119 --> 01:15:45.880 and just crouches down below the window. And as Bob Islinger's walking across the 907 01:15:45.920 --> 01:15:50.600 street, he sees JW. Bell fall flat face in the middle of the 908 01:15:50.640 --> 01:15:55.199 street dead. Now, this guy Goss goes on to say, and he 909 01:15:55.239 --> 01:15:59.039 was a witness. Bob Islinger's like, what the hell happened? You know, 910 01:15:59.479 --> 01:16:01.880 did Bell shoot the kid? This other guy comes forward and says, 911 01:16:01.960 --> 01:16:06.359 no, he shot Bill. He shot shot the deputy. Right about then 912 01:16:06.760 --> 01:16:13.760 Bob Ollinger sees Billy the Kid pop up from the second story window. He 913 01:16:13.840 --> 01:16:18.199 hangs the shotgun out the window, looks at Bob, points that double barrel 914 01:16:18.279 --> 01:16:24.520 shotgun right at him and says hello, Bob. And at that point Bob 915 01:16:24.560 --> 01:16:28.439 says, well, shitty just killed me too. Billy the Kid pulls the 916 01:16:28.479 --> 01:16:33.479 trigger puts eighteen buckshot in Bob Ollinger's chest and face. He falls flat dead 917 01:16:34.000 --> 01:16:38.560 about this point in time, obviously, the people in town are shit in 918 01:16:38.640 --> 01:16:42.119 their pants, are like, what in the hell's going on? Billy the 919 01:16:42.199 --> 01:16:45.880 Kid's about to go free. Billy the Kid steps out onto the second floor 920 01:16:46.000 --> 01:16:53.760 balcony outside the courthouse and he proceeds to address the people standing out there and 921 01:16:53.880 --> 01:16:59.159 he explains, Hey, I had to do this. You guys don't understand 922 01:16:59.199 --> 01:17:02.600 that I was ust to pardon that was never given to me. I'm not 923 01:17:02.720 --> 01:17:06.880 supposed to be in this situation. I was never supposed to be put on 924 01:17:06.960 --> 01:17:12.119 trial. So as long as you guys just let me do my thing and 925 01:17:12.279 --> 01:17:15.600 let me go, we will not have any problems. But I do need 926 01:17:15.640 --> 01:17:19.199 a horse. So he has one of the local guys get him a horse, 927 01:17:19.720 --> 01:17:25.600 and while he's doing that, he packs up two pistols, a Winchester 928 01:17:25.760 --> 01:17:29.720 rifle, and a shitload of ammo. Now he tells the guy who he 929 01:17:29.760 --> 01:17:32.399 got the horse from. He literally tells him I will make sure this horse 930 01:17:32.800 --> 01:17:35.600 makes it back here. He's like, I only need to borrow this. 931 01:17:35.720 --> 01:17:40.319 I'm not going to steal it. And ironically enough, a couple of days 932 01:17:40.399 --> 01:17:43.800 later, that horse does show back up in Lincoln County with a rope, 933 01:17:44.039 --> 01:17:47.479 the rope still around its neck. It's not really known whether Billy the kids 934 01:17:47.520 --> 01:17:51.119 sent it back or if he fell off the horse and then the horse came 935 01:17:51.159 --> 01:17:57.319 back. But that's just a little side fact right there. There's no turning 936 01:17:57.399 --> 01:18:00.159 back for Billy. There's a cool little story, you know, that one 937 01:18:00.159 --> 01:18:04.279 of the local guys goes to reach for his pistol while Billy's up there on 938 01:18:04.359 --> 01:18:06.920 his balcony, and his wife looks at him and he's like, no, 939 01:18:08.119 --> 01:18:13.319 dude, no, that's Billy the kid. You're not getting shot down. 940 01:18:13.760 --> 01:18:16.880 Get your damn hand off your six shooter. So they let him ride off, 941 01:18:17.279 --> 01:18:20.840 and at this point in time, there's no turning back for Billy. 942 01:18:21.479 --> 01:18:28.720 He is just shot two cops and he is on the run. Now at 943 01:18:28.720 --> 01:18:31.319 this point, everybody thinks Billy's got to be heading to Mexico. He has 944 01:18:31.520 --> 01:18:35.960 at least a day or two heads start on Pat Garrett. So Pat Garrett 945 01:18:36.479 --> 01:18:43.399 really doesn't proceed to look for him, because anybody in their right mind knows 946 01:18:44.840 --> 01:18:48.960 Billy's not gonna stick around. He's going to Mexico and you're never gonna see 947 01:18:49.000 --> 01:18:56.760 him again, because don't ever forget Billy spoke fluent Spanish. He was protected 948 01:18:56.760 --> 01:19:00.720 by the Mexicans, by the Hispanics down there because he was revered as a 949 01:19:00.840 --> 01:19:06.319 hero. He could have gotten away so easily, but he didn't. He 950 01:19:06.399 --> 01:19:12.319 goes right back to Fort Sumner. He ends up going north. There are 951 01:19:12.359 --> 01:19:16.199 a couple suggestions of why he did not go to Mexico, but one of 952 01:19:16.199 --> 01:19:24.039 them is because of Paul to Maxwell, Billy the kid was supposedly pretty madly 953 01:19:24.079 --> 01:19:28.880 in love with this woman. And let's be real, Billy is twenty one 954 01:19:28.960 --> 01:19:32.199 years old at this point in time. He's still a kid. But instead 955 01:19:32.199 --> 01:19:36.720 of going to Mexico, he goes back to Fort Sumner. So on April 956 01:19:38.079 --> 01:19:43.680 twenty eighth, eighteen eighty one, Billy escapes. There's a lot of rumors 957 01:19:43.680 --> 01:19:48.039 about Billy being in Fort Sumner. Pat Garrett keeps hearing these rumors, but 958 01:19:48.079 --> 01:19:54.359 he's not really paying any attention to him until a lot of people start blowing 959 01:19:54.439 --> 01:19:57.800 him a bunch of shit, saying, oh, man, you know, 960 01:19:57.880 --> 01:20:00.159 you know, we all know where he is. He's back at Fort Sumner. 961 01:20:00.199 --> 01:20:03.439 There's reports of him being around there. We have people saying that he's 962 01:20:03.479 --> 01:20:06.720 there, you know, and they start telling Pat Garrett that, oh, 963 01:20:06.760 --> 01:20:10.800 you must be scared of him. That's why you're not going to get him, 964 01:20:11.079 --> 01:20:15.000 because you must be scared of Billy the Kid. So Pat Garrett does 965 01:20:15.680 --> 01:20:19.680 end up going to Fort Sumner with a few deputies to look for Billy the 966 01:20:19.760 --> 01:20:25.439 Kid, and on July fourteenth, eighteen eighty one, one night, Billy 967 01:20:25.479 --> 01:20:29.800 the Kid is in Fort Sumner. Now Pat Garrett gets there before him. 968 01:20:29.800 --> 01:20:33.359 He meets up with a guy named Pete Maxwell, who is the older brother 969 01:20:33.880 --> 01:20:40.119 of Paul. To Maxwell, Pete is pretty much offering him a lot of 970 01:20:40.199 --> 01:20:45.239 information. Now, what it said is Billy comes into town and he's pretty 971 01:20:45.319 --> 01:20:48.920 much looking for some food. He had been out on the trail for a 972 01:20:48.960 --> 01:20:53.439 couple of days at this point, from what I understand, and he's looking 973 01:20:53.439 --> 01:20:56.720 for some food and somebody directs him over to Pete Maxwell's house, saying, 974 01:20:56.760 --> 01:21:00.479 oh, he just kills some cattle. He's got some of beef hanging up. 975 01:21:00.880 --> 01:21:01.680 You know, you can go over there and get some fresh meat. 976 01:21:02.119 --> 01:21:05.680 So Billy the Kid goes over there. Now he goes over to Pete's house 977 01:21:05.720 --> 01:21:12.119 and he notices that it's all dark inside Pete Maxwell's house. Now Pat Garrett 978 01:21:12.119 --> 01:21:15.920 and Pete Maxwell are in his bedroom, are in Pete Maxwell's bedroom. Pat 979 01:21:15.920 --> 01:21:20.840 Garrett and Pete Maxwell are in Pete's bedroom talking about Billy the Kid where he's 980 01:21:20.880 --> 01:21:26.239 been when he's coming back, and they hear it. They hear a voice 981 01:21:26.279 --> 01:21:30.159 going Guiness, Guinness because Billy shows up at this door and he can't tell 982 01:21:30.159 --> 01:21:35.600 who's inside it, and all Pete Maxwell and Pat Garrett can sees a silhouette 983 01:21:35.600 --> 01:21:40.880 of a man pretty much shrouded by the moonlight that should be known, and 984 01:21:40.960 --> 01:21:45.399 even Pat Garrett says that in his book that they could not see exactly who 985 01:21:45.439 --> 01:21:51.840 it was because all they saw was a silhouette. Well, Pat Garrett is 986 01:21:51.840 --> 01:21:57.399 sitting kind of on his holster, pulls out his gun. Fires one round, 987 01:21:57.560 --> 01:22:01.359 hits Billy right above the heart. Second round he fires, Missus goes 988 01:22:01.359 --> 01:22:05.680 into the wall. Billy the Kid drops dead right there where he stood. 989 01:22:06.359 --> 01:22:12.199 It is still debated to this day whether or not Billy the Kid actually had 990 01:22:12.239 --> 01:22:15.760 a weapon in his hand. Some say that he did have his pistol out. 991 01:22:15.800 --> 01:22:20.439 Others say that it was a knife in his hand because Billy walked up 992 01:22:20.479 --> 01:22:26.279 to this door not wanting to shoot a friend, So a lot of people 993 01:22:26.359 --> 01:22:30.720 say that he actually did holster his pistol and had a knife in his hand 994 01:22:30.720 --> 01:22:34.119 instead, because he didn't know who was in this room. Now, obviously, 995 01:22:34.159 --> 01:22:40.000 about a year later, Pat Garrett co authors a book called The Authentic 996 01:22:40.079 --> 01:22:43.039 Life of Billy the Kid. Now, if you think about this for a 997 01:22:43.119 --> 01:22:47.159 second, how would you like it if your murderer got to write your biography. 998 01:22:48.840 --> 01:22:54.199 They could literally say whatever they wanted to about you, stretch the truth, 999 01:22:54.560 --> 01:23:00.840 make themselves look a lot better. Now, this is pretty much where 1000 01:23:00.159 --> 01:23:06.279 the story of William H. Bonnie ends, in the legend of Billy the 1001 01:23:06.359 --> 01:23:10.960 Kid begins. Now, you'll hear a lot of people say, well, 1002 01:23:11.840 --> 01:23:16.000 there's a lot of rumors flying around that maybe Billy the Kid wasn't shot that 1003 01:23:16.159 --> 01:23:23.119 night, Maybe it was somebody else. Maybe it was Billy's good friend, 1004 01:23:23.439 --> 01:23:29.239 guy named Billy Barlow, who looked exactly like him. A lot of the 1005 01:23:29.319 --> 01:23:35.199 locals said that Billy's body had a darker complexion than what he had actually looked 1006 01:23:35.239 --> 01:23:41.560 like, suggesting that maybe it was a local from that area he was shot 1007 01:23:41.640 --> 01:23:45.800 and not Billy. Because there's a lot of speculation out there that says that 1008 01:23:45.880 --> 01:23:48.479 was not Billy the Kid that died that night, And as a matter of 1009 01:23:48.560 --> 01:23:55.279 fact, the first deputy of Pat Garrett's that ran up and saw the body 1010 01:23:55.600 --> 01:23:58.279 and says, you shot Billy the kid. You shot Billy the kid. 1011 01:24:00.279 --> 01:24:02.159 After he runs up to the body, he says, that's not Billy the 1012 01:24:02.239 --> 01:24:08.760 kid. You shot the wrong guy. Now, this deputy ended up writing 1013 01:24:08.760 --> 01:24:15.079 some memoirs not too long after that about his life, and he would claim 1014 01:24:15.119 --> 01:24:20.279 that Pat Garrett shot the wrong guy until the day he died. Is there 1015 01:24:20.439 --> 01:24:27.039 motivation for Pat Garrett to claim that he shot Billy the kid, collect reward 1016 01:24:27.159 --> 01:24:30.640 money and tell Billy to get the scout of town if you even talked to 1017 01:24:30.680 --> 01:24:35.760 Billy. Yeah, there is a lot of motivation there. Pat Garrett wasn't 1018 01:24:35.800 --> 01:24:41.079 dead up to his eyeballs. He was a compulsive gambler. That five hundred 1019 01:24:41.039 --> 01:24:45.680 dollars reward and sales from a book would have gone a long way for Pat 1020 01:24:45.720 --> 01:25:39.319 Garrett. M hm hm planet. I haven't a minute minute of mantle Planet. 1021 01:25:41.159 --> 01:25:50.479 I have a minute and minute a minute of