Notice is hereby given that five hundred dollars reward will be paid for the delivery of Bonney alias 'The Kid' to the sheriff of Lincoln County. Five days later, Sheriff Pat Garrett and his men ambush the Regulators after luring them back to town with false information. But the Kid escapes back to his hideout with most of his gang intact.
December 23, Garrett's men track down the Kid's hideout and surround the one-room, stone house. After a day of banter between the Kid and Garrett, the Kid and his men surrender, allegedly drawn out by the aroma of bacon and beans from Garrett's posse. Over the next few days -- after a soulful goodbye to his sweetheart, Paulita Maxwell -- Garrett brings the Kid to Las Vegas, where he is the talk of the town.
In it the Kid is quoted as saying, "What's the use of looking on the gloomy side of everything? The laugh's on me this time. Albert Jennings Fountain, who had written scalding editorials on Billy's former gang, is chosen to represent the Kid.
After only two days of testimony, both sides of the case rest. The jury returns a guilty verdict for first degree murder, and the Kid is sentenced to die on May April 28, While awaiting execution in the Lincoln jail, the Kid asks his guard to take him to the toilet. During the trip, the Kid gains possession of the guard's gun and kills him. From Sheriff Garrett's office, the Kid then grabs a gauge shotgun, takes aim out a jailhouse window at the second guard who is walking across the street, and kills him.
The Kid knocks the shackles off his legs with a pickax and flees on a stolen horse. The next day, word of the Kid's escape inspires hundreds of news stories and pulp articles around the world. July 14, Sheriff Garrett and his two best deputies slip into Fort Sumner in the early evening to look for the Kid after reportedly hearing a rumor that Paulita Maxwell was pregnant with the Kid's child.
Near midnight the men enter the gate of the Maxwell house and stand on the porch. Garrett enters Pete Maxwell's room, sitting near the head of the bed. The Kid, spotting the deputies on the porch, pulls his gun from his waistband and whispers, "Quien es? Maxwell whispers to Garrett, "El es" [It's him], and Garrett pulls out his gun and fires twice, killing the Kid. July 15, A coroner's jury rules that the Kid's death was justifiable homicide. In the afternoon a procession follows the wagon carrying the coffin to nearby Fort Sumner cemetery.
The Kid is buried near two of his fallen brethren. August By railroad and telegraph lines, news of the Kid's death travels worldwide as The Times of London runs a reprint of his obituary. Garrett receives international acclaim and the Kid's story makes headlines in hundreds of newspapers. Although the author appears as Pat Garrett, a newspaper journalist ghostwrites the book, which is more myth than fact.
The Cisco Kid will appear dozens of times in books, radio programs, and movies, becoming a cultural icon during the six-season television series "The Cisco Kid" in the s. The book instantly gains widespread popularity and becomes a Book of the Month Club offering. Billy comes to epitomize the romantic Old West as the wild American frontier continues to shrink.
In the movie, Brown carries the actual pistols that belonged to Billy the Kid loaned to the studio by William S. The film is so popular that it will be remade in Ignoring his birth name, the tombstone depicts his name as "William H.
Today, the entire gravesite is enclosed in a steel cage. The series will last for 75 episodes and captivate American audiences across the country. Described as historiographic metafiction, the text contains poetry, prose, and images from both historical and pop-culture sources. Following the outstanding reception by critics, the work was adapted into a play in Young Guns II will follow in No test results have been made public, but in a lawsuit will be filed to release the findings.
December 31, Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico, who had been considering a posthumous pardon for Billy the Kid on the premise that it would follow through on the purported promise made by Governor Lew Wallace, announces on his last day in office that he will not pardon McCarty.
He cites "historical ambiguity. The buyer, a year-old businessman from Florida named William Koch, also owns guns once belonging to general george Custer and Jesse James. He plans to display the photo only in a few small museums.
His birth year is , or Bonney pulled his pistol and blew Windy to kingdom come and sprinted for the door of the saloon. Stop him! String up that Billy the Kid! This act put Billy smack dab in the middle of the Lincoln County War. Everyone knew who was exacting hotlead justice but that was okay since the killers were on one side or the other of the range dispute.
Then Billy and his pals made a big mistake. This was serious trouble. The lawmen were crooked but they were government appointed agents. The Kid was in serious trouble. Pat Garrett was elected sheriff of Lincoln County in and right away, he took off after Billy.
The officer arrested the outlaw and Billy was tried for the murder of Sheriff Brady. He was convicted and the judge sentenced him to death.
His date with destiny would come at another time, July 14, As with all legends things became a bit hazy. Buried in a common grave with two friends, no one knows for sure which body is which, or if Billy is there at all. The young gunslinger stole the occasional horse, but he never once held up a bank, train or even a stagecoach.
Outside of his gunfighting days with the Regulators, his main criminal enterprise was rustling cattle on the New Mexico plains. In a four-year span between and , the baby-faced outlaw was involved in the shooting deaths of some nine men, at least four of whom he killed singlehandedly.
One particularly legendary gunfight unfolded in January at a New Mexico saloon. It proved to be a wise move. Later that evening, Grant pulled the same pistol on the Kid and tried to shoot him in the back. The outlaw was found guilty of the murder of Sheriff William Brady and confined to the Lincoln courthouse.
He was scheduled for a date with the hangman, but on the evening of April 28, , he engineered the most daring getaway of his criminal career. During a trip to the outhouse, the Kid slipped out of his handcuffs, ambushed a guard and shot the man to death with his own pistol. He then armed himself with a double-barreled shotgun and gunned down a second guard who was crossing the street.
Once in control of the courthouse, the Kid collected a small arsenal of weapons, cut his leg shackles with a pickaxe and fled town on a stolen horse. News of the brazen escape was soon reprinted in newspapers across the country, making the Kid the most wanted man in the West.
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