The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-22
MURDERS WERE;
THEIR PyASTTI,NE
Wyatt Earpthe Sole Survivor Of -Four
Outlaw Brothers.
WERE Err: TERRoRs IN ARIZONA.
All Were Noted as Gun Fighters, and
Amused Themselves With Plum
der and slaughter-story of
the Bandits.
WERE TERRoRs IN. ARIZONA.

OF wyatt. carp III MS own SaIOOn at cape
Nome by a customer he had tried to bully,
has revived interest among those who
knew him as the notorious Arizona gun
fighter and bad man and his equally not
ed brothers.
1t was expected that there would be
serious trouble at Cape Nome after the
shooting of carp. as his followers, all
bad and reckless characters, swore ven
geance. The military authorities, how
ever, lodged carp in Jail, and as The
troops are too many for them, It is hard
~ likely that the wounded desperado's
friends will commit any overt act. 1t is
likely that before carp RECEIVERS from his
wound he will receive news of the death
OF his youngest brother, Warren, who
was shot and killed last week at Will
cox, Arizona.
AS PRIZE FIGHT REFEREE.
Wyatt carp gained a new notoriety at
the time he gave decision against Fitz-
simmons in the latter's fight with Shar-
key in this city. Before he entered the
ring as the referee the police. made him
oliver up his big revolver, ana after the
fight he went around heeled with two
guns, and dared any one 20 hint that he
had made a crooked decision.
Wyatt carp is the last oe the four
notorious carp brothers, VINO combined
in the early days to make TOMBSTONE i've
up to it's name. Virgil and Julian, the
first to die, were killed in gun plays
several years ago. Warren, true to LIS
instincts, had the coroner remove his
boots when he was killed a few days ago,
and now Wyatt. the survivor, seems to
have had a close call from What VIII oe
his end.
When the carp brothers lived in Tomb
stone they did much toward making 1T
thrilling place of residence, for the tour
brothers were much IN evidence there
abouts in the early sos In 1883, how
ever, the community decided 1t had had
enough of the Quartette, and soma
front, made up of sin-shooters and VIM
chesters, was presented to them. So they
left Tombstone and migrated to the Gun
nison country. Finally they were run out
of the Gunnison, and Wyatt carp migrat-
ed to California, While Warren chung to
his native heath in Arizona
They had sister, Jessie, too, who llVed
with them in Tombstone. She was known
as the vrtuouS one of the family, virgil
as the Oldest, Wyatt as the Wisest, Julian
as the bravest and Warren as the most
foolhardy. Virgil was killed in tombstone
and Julian in the Gunnison.
THRILLING FAMILY TRAGEDY.
Ike Clauton, a famous member of the
cattle thieves, the opposition faction to
the stage-robbers in Tombstone, married
Jessie carp. Then he found it necessary
to kill her brother, Julian, and then
Warren and Wyatt found it necessary to
kill Clauton and make their charming SIS
ter widow. For Jessie had dared to
marry man with whom her brothers
had feud and she must be disciplined
ALL of the Earps were gun fighters for
the love of it, and men of prompt courage
and bitter revenge. Each of them mas
killed numerous men. Wyatt IS credited
with ten and Warren with fully As many.
1t used to be said in the Cochise com
try, round about Tombstone. that any OF
the Earps was fit to pull and centre
a shot in less than one-tenth Of i second.
In the early sos, when Virgil and Wyatt
carp led the stage robbers Of Tombstone,
Ike Clauton, Johnny Behan AM "ack
Ringo led the cattle rustlers. The stage
robbers were Republicans; the cattle
thieves Democrats. The Earps killed men
for recreation and robbed stages for
livelihood, for there was no money in
murder. The rustlers got their amrse-
ment in much the same way, but they
devoted much time to whisky and the
faro bank.
Political office. too. had It's charms fer
both factions, for while Johnny T5cIlan
was the Democratic Sheriff Of Cochise
county, Virgil carp was the Republican
Marshal of Tombstone. AMI both sides
treated themselves and each other TO
many murder.
Adopts IN STAGE ROBBERY.
Virgil carp had partnership with Bar
sher Williams, at that time the Nells-
Fargo Express agent at Tombstone. Will
liams would 'tip off, the stages that he
knew would hold the big money and then
carp would plant his highway1nen in
convenient place and plumber the stage.
Warren carp was an express stage COM
pany guard, and when his brother gave the
command Glands up" it was wonderful
to see with what meekness the flerce-look-
ing young guard threw up his hands, Then
his brothers went through the express pack
ages. There was never any shooting, for
it was a family affair.
In these robberies the Earps often real
lied as much as $25,O0O, which they spent
with a freedom that was considered royal
In Tombstone. After each crime they or
ganized themselves into a posse coHlta-
tus and received more money as a bonus
for chasing themselves. In each ease Viz
gil. the marshal, would enlist his three
brothers and the notorious Curly Biz
carp, their cousin.
But when Williams. the unfaithful Wells
Fargo man, was about to die, his con-
science snote him and he confessed, inlpli-
eating the Earps-
It was u gala. time in the t:rd- ca se
opera-hcuSe of Tombstone, and the two
warning factions occupied the boxes On
opposite sides of the house. When one
side cherred or clapped their big hands,
the other Kissed. Sheriff Behan, Ike Clau-
ton and Jack Ringo, with several follow
ers. wed with the carp brothers, Curly
Bilr' and doc Holiday. Whiskey flowed
! like water, and excitement was at blood
I heat when suddenly Clauto took excep-
ton to the boot Of one of the Earps which
reposed on the rail in front of the box.
Ike promptly put a bullet through the of
Tending member. and then there was a
| bloody war. Twelve men We're killed or
wounded, but none Of the Earps was even
! scratched.
WILLIAMS BETRAYS THE EARPs
Williams the Wells-Fargo traitor, was
| seriously wounded in half a dozen places,
| and. fully expecting to die. he worked up
q little deathbed repentance, and told how
the Earps had been plundering stages
and express packages for years.
This induced the Earps to fortify them
selves in a small adobe hut on the out
skirts OF the town. where they were
promptly besieged by Sheriff Behan and his