Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-02-29

in New Mexico. He knew Governor
Curry well and spent much time with
him on the range when both were
cowboys together.
Garrett was brought forward by his
friends as a suitable man for prison
superintendent at the time the office
was resigned by Marion Littrell, out
he would not consider it and so the
position was not rendered him
1t is said President Roosevelt fire.
quently referred to the hunter of bad
men as Pat Garret, the man who is
mighty handy with his siX-shOoter."
But despite his ability to shoot
when occasion demanded. those who
knew Pat Garret intimately say that
he never was known to fight unless
he was forced to do so or had been
most severely provoked. In all the
fights in which he was ever con-
cerned as hunter of bad men, he
never took unfair advantage and had
the respect alike of the outlaws he
hunted and the people he defended
from their outrages.
We'll known Here.
At the time Garrct killed Billy
the Kid in room i'm little stone
house a few miles from old Fort
Sumner, the sherff and the outlaw,
both fired almost simultaneously and
Garretts shot reached its mark only
an instant before the outlaw pulled
the trigger, or the story might have
| been written differently.
When The Citizen received the
| first news of the killing of Pat Gar
ret shortly after noon today. a num-
Der of his friends in this city visited
| the office to hear the details of the
| ira gedy. Garrett was well known
here and had visited this city many
! times. \ number of stories were told
| of his prowess with the siX-shooter
upon various occasions and of his
| fights with outlaws and bad men.
Death of the Kid.
Billy the Kid, whose career of
crime was cut short by Garrett was
a product of the famous Lincoln
county cattle war Garrett, until re-
Gently collector of customs at the
| port of El Paso under appointment by
! President Roosevelt made for him
self a national reputation as a man
| Of nerve and bravery by this fight
and it was the killing of Billy the
/ Kid that attracted the attention of
! President Roosevelt to Garrett He
! had proved himself a politician, how
ever, during his early life In New
! Mexico. He was sheriff Of Lincoln
! county during the most troublesome
/ times of that rough county's history,
and was sheriff of that county at the
! time he killed the noted outlaw.
at was during Garrett's first term
Of office as sheriff Of Lincoln coun-
ty," writes Emmerson Hough. for
mer resident of Lincoln county and a
/ personal friend of Captain Garrett,
when he was called upon to capture
! the notorious young desperate. Billy
the Kid, then not over 20 years Of
: age but charged with not less than
| twenty murders-moSt say that he
had killed u men, Garrett said
nine, With the Kid at their chosen
headquarters nine miles east Of Fort
! Sumner were Tom Pickett, one Of the
Lincoln county war fighters; Tom
! O'Fallidrd, another reckless charact-
err charged with murder Dave Duda-
baugh. who had killed his jailer at
Las Vegas, and Charlie BOwda, for
merly a small rancher OIL the Bunito,
nut of late turned killer. Garrett con-
ICealed his deputies at Fort sumner
and put out scouts one day he and
some of his men were riding east
Waru of the town when they jumped
| Tom OFolliard, who was mounted
on a horse which proved to be too
good for them in chase Of several
miles. Garrett at last was left alone
following O'Folliard. The latter later
admitted that he fired twenty times