When was billy the kid born

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Henry hid the loot in his boarding house, but was arrested after his landlord turned him in to the sheriff. The crime only carried a minor sentence, but rather than face punishment, the wiry youth escaped the jailhouse by shimmying up a chimney.

McCarty then fled town and embarked on a career as a roving ranch hand, gambler and gang member. He became handy with a Winchester rifle and a Colt revolver, and in August he killed his first man during a dispute in an Arizona saloon. Billy the Kid first earned his reputation as a gunslinger in , when he participated in a bloody frontier war in Lincoln County, New Mexico. The conflict centered on a business rivalry between British-born rancher John Tunstall and a pair of Irish tycoons named James Dolan and Lawrence Murphy.

The tensions finally boiled over in February , when Tunstall was murdered by a posse organized by Sheriff William Brady, a supporter of The House. In July , the feud reached its climax with a deadly, five-day firefight in the town of Lincoln, after which the Regulators disbanded and the two sides sealed a flimsy peace agreement.

He would spend the rest of his life on the run from the authorities. Billy The Kid shooting down his foe who had taken refuge behind a saloon bar. The young gunslinger stole the occasional horse, but he never once held up a bank, train or even a stagecoach. Billy, now a member of the Regulators , would enact revenge by gunning-down the deputy who killed his friend, as well as another deputy and the County Sheriff, William Brady on April 1, Now an even more wanted man than before, McCarty went into hiding but soon started to steal livestock from white ranchers and Apache on the Mescalero reservation.

In order to restore peace to Lincoln County, Wallace proclaimed an amnesty for any man involved in the Lincoln County War that was not already under indictment. Billy was, of course, under several indictments some of which unrelated to the Lincoln County War but Wallace was intrigued by rumors that McCarty was willing to surrender himself and testify against other combatants if amnesty could be extended to him.

In March of , Wallace and Billy met to discuss the possibility of a deal. True to form, McCarty greeted the governor with a revolver in one hand and a Winchester rifle in the other. After several days to think the issue over, Billy agreed to testify in return for an amnesty. Part of the agreement was for McCarty to submit to a show arrest and a short stay in jail until the conclusion of his courtroom testimony.

However, Billy was a skilled escape artist and slipped out of his handcuffs and fled. For the next year, he hung around Fort Sumner on the Pecos River and developed a fateful friendship with a local bartender named Pat Garrett who was later elected sheriff of Lincoln County. By the Fall of , Billy was still trying to convince the governor of a pardon, although continuing his outlaw activities.

Taking shots at the deputy, Redman hid behind a saloon as several local citizens ran into the street, chasing the fugitives out of town. Garrett set-up many traps and ambushes in an attempt to apprehend Billy but the Kid seemed to have an animal instinct that warned him of danger, but that was not to last. Pat Garrett, Lon chambers, and several others leaped from cover as Garrett ordered the outlaws to halt. When Bowdre passed before an open window, he was shot in the chest.

The siege continued until the next day when Rudabaugh finally waved a white flag and the bandits surrendered. Deliberation in his April trial took exactly one day and Billy was convicted of murdering Sheriff William Brady and sentenced to hang by Judge Warren Bristol.