The San Francisco call., 1896-12-19

hearst S Otner ScanQalOuS paper, the New
York Journal, and whom the Examiner
recently published as "a man among men
who knew men, has written much OF
Wyatt carp since the robbery of Fiizsim-
mons. This knowledge of carp is from
personal contact with and study OF the
bully. Here are a few extracts OF Mr..
Lewis opinion of Long Green" Law
rence's associate and protector:
In the early eighties was neighbor of the
carp family. Tney abode at Tombstone, Ariz,
and did much toward making that hamlet a
thrilling place OF residence.
Wyatt carp is OF four brothers, two oil
whom, J ullan and Warren carp, are happily
dead and out The iour carp brothers were
abundant about Tom bstone in 1881, 1882 and
1888. The community in 1883 assumed q
positive attitude toward the Earps, and pre-
sented front 10 that household, made up in
the main of Winchesters and Colt Six-shooters.
The Earps Construed this into a lack of con-
fidence on the part OF the Tom bstone public.
They resented 1t by shaking the dust OF Tom b.
stone from their feet forever. They migrated
to the Gunnison country. They were subse-
Quentiy run out OF Gunnlson, and wyatt ana
Virgil carp went TO California, where Wyatt
the otner night refereed the Fitzsimmons-
Sharkey fight.
Virgil, Wyatt, Warren and Julian. They had
a sister, Jessie, who was with them in Tomb
stone. OF her, as noyelists say, anon
Virgil was the Oldest carp, Wyatt the
wisest Warren the most foolhardy, Julian the
brevest and Jessie the most loving. As re-
SUIT WYATT and Virgil lived to get out of
Tombstone, and the Gunnison in advance OF
public opinion and the bullets that expressed
1t; while Warren was killed in Tom bstone and
Julian i'll the Gunnison by Ike Clanton, who
married his sister Jessie, and whom wyatt
and Virgil subsequently killed at Socorro-and
Jessie, the loving one welded Ike Clanton,
with whom her 1our brothers had blood teud
the time?
Wyatt carp and, for that matter, all the
Ifs and
and bitter courage. Wyatt carp himself is
credited with ten men; one MS own Drother-
ih-law, ClanIon. Every one of the Earps had
killed his men-noL man-Rnd was famed in
Tombstone and the Cochise country round
about as qualified to pull and make q center
shot in less than one-tenth OF second. They
had all filed the sights from their siX-shooterS
when l knew them in 81 and 50; and,
eschewing the Intervention of a trigger, were
prone to that prowess known as tanning
their pistols in fight, whereby Colts six
shooter becomes for the nonce miniature
Calling.
Mr.. Lewis has an interesting anecdote
to tell OF carp and his friends and like
class of rutfians who were their enemies.
he publishes it thus:
1t was gala occasion in the Bird Cage
Opera-house in Tombstone. Sheriff Jimmy
Behan, Ike Clan ton, Rlngo and Others OF the
cow-thieves had boxes on one side. The
Earps, Curly Bill, Doc Holiday, Nixon and
Others of the stage-robbers had boxes opposite.
When one side cheered performer the others
hissed, and as whisky flowed the spirits OF
both gangs mounted.
Atlast Ike Clanton took umbrage because
Nixon opposite reposed his boot on the rail OF
his box. Cianton was 100 far away for Con-
Versat1on, so in testimony OF his condemns
tion OF Nixon's action, he pulled his gun and
put bullet through NiXon'S offensive foot.
1t came off the box rail.
Much good and enthusiastic shooting en-
sued. Twelve men were killed and wounded );
none OF the Earps however Williams, the
confederate OF Virgil and Wyatt carp In
stage robbing, was badly shot up. He
expected to die and confessed. AL this Wyatt
carp and his three brothers, with others of the
gang, fortified themselves in an old dolby
house on the edge of Tombstone. Behan and
the cow-th1eyes put in what time they could
spare from faro bank and theft in besieging
them. The siege was stand-off. At last War
rem Earp-the loolhardy one-heeled himself
and came down from the dolby fortress to play
taro bank He had just set a stack of blues on
the king open when coW-thief Hstlessly put
a bullet through his head.
Thus died the first OF the Earps. There was
no more fighting then, and at last the Earps
were driven out OF Tombstone and into the
Gunnlson. Their sister Jessie went with them.
Ike Clanton, one OF the Democrats ard cow
thieves, followed them TO Colorado and el0ped
with Jessie. This was too much for the Re-
publican stage-rob bbing blood OF Wyatt carp
and his brothers. They pursued They ran
The miners interfered. There must be fair
play. Ike Clanton offered to fight Virgil, Wyatt
or Julian carp for their sister. Julian took it
up. The two shot it out with pis tolls and Julian
was killed.
Thus died the second carp. Ike Clanton and
Jessie (nee Earp), lived in peace two years.
Then Wyatt carp, Virgil carp and Curly Bill
crossed up with Clanton. and there was an
other feast of the guns. Clanton was killed
and took with him Curly Bill to the happy
hunting grounds. Wyatt Earp, when the
smoke blew away, was also full of well-made
bullet-holes, but he got well.
1t was then that Wyatt and Virgil Earp lined
out for the slope. Just before they lett Toni b.
stone the EarpS killed the two McL)wrles, Billy
Clanton and Frank Stillwell 1t was these
killings rather than the Wells-Fargo hold-ups
that caused the public 10 lay ior them. Wyatt
Earp was prominent-wtth his gun-in the
Cochise county-seat war between Tombstone
and Charleston of long ago.
His last public appearance in gun play
was IN the middle eighties, when Mayor Kelly
ran Luke Short out of Dodge City, and the
fugitive Luke summoned Wyatt carp, Doc
Holiday, Charley Bassett, Bat Masterson and
Shotgun Collins to aid him in the recovery of
his own. They reinstated Luke and he and
Kelly divided Dodge City between them.
Is it wonder, then, that Wyatt carp
was selected as the most daring ana brazen
rascal TO do the bidding of Sharkey and
the other sharks OF mis- encourage? A man
of nerve was required to boldly face an
audience of 10000 people or more and
calmly decide contrary to all rules of right,
and actually rob man OF $4,000.
But this man Is not through yet with
such fragrant steal. His very boldness
and effronl cry have rushed him into po-
sition where he may have TO face charge
of perjury based upon his testimony given
before Judge Sanderson on Tuesday last.
He was undergoing cross-examlnation
by Attorney Kowalsky. and in regard to
matters that rranspired in the ring within
view of the thousands of spectators who
shouted themselves hoarse in calling his
attention TO them he denied seeing any
fouiIng by Sharkey, or even of hearing
Martin Julian address the house saying
that he objected to carp as a referee be-
cause he was reported fixed to give the
fight to Sharkey.
Here is the testimony as taken down by
a stenographer:
Q.-Did you see sharkey on several occa-
sions, when they clinched, grab Fitzsimmons
by the leg.
A.-No, sir; never. Ii Mr.. sharkey had
caught Mr.. Fitzsimmons by the legs and
wanted to throw him he could have thrown
him plumb off the stage, and anybody knows
that,
Q.-At the time when we claim that Sharkey
not once, but half dozen times, caught FiIz-
simmons around the legs and tried to throw
him, did you not hear the audience holler,
"Shamel Fouli"
A.--No, did not sharkey never caught