She told the jury that her husband Pete Spence and several others who she identified had talked about the murder in her home. A passenger told Virgil he saw men lying on a flatcar near the engine. [30], While Behan sought to arrest the Earps, his reputation among some citizens was very negative. [3], John "Texas Jack" Vermillion, a Virginian, joined the vendetta ride after Frank Stilwell was killed, and was never indicted for Stilwell's murder, but he was with the Earps when Florentino "Indian Charlie" Cruz was killed. [11]:38 Dodge also wrote in the 1920s that Barnes had told him that Wyatt Earp had killed Brocius. Their lives were not safe for a moment in Tombstone, even if they gave themselves up to the authorities, for the sheriff is inimical to them, and they felt that in his hands they would be entirely at the mercy of the cowboys. They stayed near Cottonwood the next night, possibly a mill site near the southwest end of the Whetstone Mountains,[42] from which they picked up the trail of fugitive Frank Jackson. [3][43], On Friday, March 24 in Tombstone, Dr. George Goodfellow, acting as coroner, examined Cruz's body. The next day the posse scouted the countryside, eventually stopping at a camp near Tombstone known as "Pick-em-up". All Rights Reserved. [69] According to a letter written by former New Mexico Territory Governor Miguel Otero, Wyatt and Holliday were eating at The Retreat Restaurant in Albuquerque owned by "Fat Charlie" "when Holliday said something about Earp becoming 'a damn Jew-boy.' In 1927, Earp defended his decisions before the Gunfight at the O.K. "Texas Jack" Vermillion’s horse was killed and fell on him, pinning his leg. The Earp Vendetta Ride was a deadly search by a federal posse led by Deputy U.S. Hooker told Behan where the Earps were camped but the posse left in the opposite direction. Tipton, a former Union seaman in the Civil War, was tattooed on his hands and forearms, and took up mining and gambling after the war. Eighteen months earlier, Wyatt had protected Curly Bill against a mob ready to lynch him for killing Tombstone Town Marshal Fred White, and then provided testimony that helped spare Curly Bill from a murder trial. Smith left Tombstone to rejoin the federal posse but Tipton remained behind. They rode into Tombstone around 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, March 21. ... without any provocation a band of four or five slayers pursued a lonely man in the dark and without a word of warning murdered him in cold blood and then hied to their stamping grounds as unconcerned as though they had when out on a hunting expedition, or like so many blood-thirsty Apaches rejoice over their crime. Afterward, Doc went to his room and Morgan and Tipton headed for Hatch's Saloon and Billiard Parlor, which had become their unofficial headquarters after the Oriental Hotel was sold. "[20] Watched over by the well-armed Wyatt and his posse, Virgil and Allie had dinner in Tucson at Porter's Hotel. [3] The Earps returned to their rooms upstairs at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, where they had lived in close company and used as their temporary headquarters since the first attack on Virgil in December. Wyatt, McMaster and Tipton pulled Morgan out of the line of fire while Hatch dashed outside looking for the shooters. On Friday, March 24, the Earp posse, including Wyatt, Warren, Doc Holliday, Sherman McMaster, and Texas Jack, rode west about 12 miles (19 km) from their overnight campsite about halfway between Contention and Drew's Station. Behan formed a Cochise County sheriff's posse consisting of deputies Phineas Clanton, Johnny Ringo, and about twenty other Cowboys and Arizona ranchers. The saddle-horn had been splintered, his coat hung in shreds, there were three holes through the legs of his trousers, five holes through the crown of his sombrero, and three through the brim. Unsuccessful, they returned to town a few days later, hearing rumors that the Cowboys were plotting further revenge. He and several men chased down and killed Stilwell, but lost the other. This man, Ayers, for personal reasons that would take too long to tell supplied me with reliable information. Holliday asked someone to get his shotguns. They simply walked in on the mill superintendent, Peel, and two other men, who were socializing. If the outlaws and their friends and allies imagined that they could intimidate or exterminate the Earps by a process of murder, and then hide behind alibis and the technicalities of the law, they simply missed their guess. [7]:238, On January 23, Wyatt rode with his deputized posse, consisting of his brothers Morgan and Warren, Doc Holliday, "Texas Jack" Vermillion and four others, to Charleston, Arizona where Ike Clanton, his brother Phin, and Pony Diehl were known to stay. He deposited money, variously reported as either $300[6] or $3000,[7]:238 to an account in the Hudson & Company Bank, minus $15, for use "to arrest all parties committing crimes against the United States." Desperately need help. [45][47] The other Cowboys fired at the lawmen. Long after the gunfight, Johnny Behan continued to spread rumors about the Earps. Between them and Earps rose a bitter feud over the division of the proceeds of the looting. "[57] Upon payment, he provided Behan's posse and horses with food and water, but would not supply them with fresh horses. "There is no hope for any honest man to get justice here against these scoundrels as long as Behan is in office. 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