The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1881-07-30
Killing The Kid.

The follow ing is Sheriff Carrots
official report to the governor of New
Mexico:
FT. SUMNER, n. NJ, July IS.
To His ExeeTlency, the Governor Of New
Mexico:
have the honor to inform your
eNcellency that had received several
Communications from persons in and
about Fort Sumner. that William
Bonny, alias the Kid, had been there,
or in that vicinity for some time,
In view of these reports deemed
1 it my duty to 90 there, and ascertain
II there was any truth in them or not,
I all Tie time uouUrrug their aeve.ee~
but ON Monday, July lIth, I left
home. taking with me John W. Poe
Snd L. l.. Mckinney, men in whose
courage and sagacitv relied implic-
lilly. and arrived just below Fort
sumner on Wednesday, the 18th. |
renamed concealed near the houses
until night, and then entered The fort
about midnight, and went TO p. Max,
wells room. | found him in bed,
and had just commenced to talk ta
him about the object of my visit at
such an unusual hour. when man
entered the room ir Stockinged feet,
with pistol in Que hand and Il knife
in the other. lie caipo and placed
his hand on the bed just beside me,
and in low whisper, "who is it ~
(and repeated the question: lie asked
of MIR. Maxwell.
l at once recognized the man. and
knew he was the Kid, and reached
behind me for my pistol, feeling al
most certain OF receiving 4 ball from
his at the moment of doing so. as |
falf n haH I'D
but fortunately he drew back from,
the bed at noticing my movement,
and, although he had his pistol point
ed at my breast, he delayed 30 fire,
and asked in Spanishs ''Quien es
Quien es ~ This gave me time to
bring mine to bear on him, and the
moment | did so pulled the trigger
and he received his death wound, for
the ball struck him in the left breast
and pierced his heart. lie never
spoke, but died in a minute. Is was
my desire to have been able to take
him alive, but his coming upon me
so suddenly and Unexpectedly leads
me TO believe that he had seen nlc
enter the room, or had been informed
by some one of the Tact; and that he
came there armed with pistol and
knife expressly to kill me II he could.
Under that impression, had no al
ternative but to Kill him ar to suffer
death at his hands,
There probably never was u more
terrible desperado ever infested tho
western country than Billy the Kid,
alias Rilly Bonney, alias Mccarthy,
alias Antrim. lie turned out to be /,
Killer in the Lincoln county war and
since then aidod in numbering Sheriff
Brady and Deputy Sheriff Hlndman,
of that county; killed Burnsteip aud
AL. Roberts at the Muscalero Apache
agency killed Robert Beckwith and
Chas. Crawford at Lincoln in July
1878; killed VIM. Morton, Frank
Baker and MeI<loskey ut Blue Water,
CAPTAIN mountains, in March, 1878 u
halt-breed Indian, John Farvis and
Grant, at TT. Sumner, blacksmith
at Camp Apache, and finally iiab Oh
linger aud d. W. Boil the last tinc
he escaped from the Jail at Lincoln.
These men he Is known To have iuur-
dered and there may be otisars. lie
was only "a years OF are and bo,istpd
that ho had killed man Tor every
year OF his life. Sheriff Garrett will
receive $500 from the governor and
IL is expected that $4,000 more viii
be raised in Las Vegas and Santa fe.
Two little sons Of ss..e.....si, Koch, of
Denver. aged three and dve years,
died, one Saturday aud tho other
Sunday last. from sating the plsos-
phorous oil oi matches.
The body Of u dead man WAS found
sln tho range nesr Silver Chm rescts-
4 y esidssi,Iy killed by a bear ~ Il waV
MrtiUiy fiaBslea and A rct tlon VI IL