El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-18

though there was plenty that would a
liked to. I WAS at the rou.
lette table, and I was losing
right along. It was new to me then
and I didn't have sense enough to
stop. Billy was standing at the bar
with his back to the room, when 1
heard somebody say pretty quiet and
steady:
Billy, L want you.
'Just as quick as he said it Billy
wheeled around and threw his gun.
"1 want you, said Billy.
There was two little puffs of smoke
and Deputy Sheriff Bob Becker went
over backwards to the sawdust, dead,
with his gun in his hand. He diin't
have time to pull the trigger.
"Billy just leaned back against the
bar with his six shooter In his hand
and run his eye around the room. Bob
Becker had lots of friends but there
wasn't any of them at first that would
take it up. Then one of them sneaked
out of the room and took q shot at Bill
ly through the window. The Kid
couldn't see who it was but he threw
his gun that way and shot twice. I
had my arm raised up to take stack {
chips when he fired, and the ball
struck me on the elbow and shattered
the bone. 1 remember [ turned sick
and that's all. When [ come to | was
on a cot in the room back of the bar,
and my arm was took of. I've got to
find 1t some day. It haunts me.
BILLY the Kid got his horse and
left when the shooting was over aud he
left me money to last till ] got wei.
Before he could get out of town
Pat Garrett got him, and they put him
in the Lincoln jail.
Just few days after was out of bed
he was free again. He was a wonder
full boy, Billy was. They had him fast
and tight in the Jail. and besides that
they had two deputy sheriffs standing
guard over him all the time. Well,
this night it was in September, there
was Jack Bell and Bob O'Linger q
guarding of him.
"Billy never done no work in his life,
and his hand was as small and white as
q woman's. While Jack Bell went
down stairs for . drink or something
or other, Billy slipped his handouts of
his wrists, and while Bob's back was
turned for half minute he gave him
terrible blow over the head and laid
him out the same as a steer with q rope
on his leg. Billy grabbed Bob's gun
before 1t could hit the floor and make
a noise, and when Jack Bell come back
up stairs Billy shot him dead on the top
step.
Then he worked at the irons on
his legs and got away. Well, after
that of course there was a bigger re-
ward offered for him aud all the man
b unters in four states tried the game
But there couldn't none of 'em meet
up with him. Pat Garrett kept up the
hunt after the others stopped, and
one day he got him. he had been a
following of him through Texas and
Kansas and Colorado, and he finally
got him in New Mexico.
HE came up to him one morning
here wasn't but one way to do it. Both
men drawed their guns at the same
lime, but Pat Garrett was just a miu-
lite the soonest. 1t was right there at |
Sort Sumner on the Pecos river in
Jhaves county, New Mexico, where he
rot him.
BILLY was a good boy,s mighty good
10Y. He was only twenty when he
vac killed. There wasn't but one
hing the matter with the kid; he was
90 good q shot. 1t got him into
rouble, and then after that he got a
ad name and they all was against
i'm. That's the way lots OF the boys
tsrted. II they'd have give 'em a
nance they'd have been good citizens.
lie did for this arm of mine but don't
lame him.
"Yes, I'm going to quit. Cash 'em
Or me. 1 don't know, may be super
titicus, but 1 can't lose"
GEORGE r. BROWN.