The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1908-03-02

Organs, Garrett loaded his shotgun
saying that "he might need it, befor,
they got to Las Cruces. Brazele, wht
is a stock raiser, has always borne
good reputation, and has never sough
trouble, according to his friends here
He says that he did not draw hi:
s1x-shooter until Garrett had reached
for his shotgun. AS Garrett was a ses
soned fighter and quick on the draw
it was only by his own marvellous
quickless that Brazele saved his life
according to Edmondson.
Intense Excitement.
Seldom has Las Cruces seen such
excitement as followed the news Of
the tragedy today. Pat Garrett was
one of the best known and most pic
turesque men in the southwest and
had hosts of friends Brazele is also
a popular man, and owing to the cir
cumstances of the shooting there il
apparently little i'll feeling against
him.
A Strenuous Career.
Pat Garrett was sheriff in Lincoln
county, New Mexico, in the early sos.
and his campaign against cattle rus
tiers was replete with daring arrests.
pitched battles and bloody encou1-
ters with the cattle thieves.
The best known of his experiences
was that when an officer of the law
Ii J,D ga
killing, according to some reports.
two score of men, was lodged in the
territorial penitentiary, only to es.
cape.
Garrett took up the hunt anew as
soon as he learned of the escape, and
located the outlaw at MaxwelPs
ranch, near Carrizozo. Garrett was in
the room where "The Kid was to
law stepped into the place, his gun
drawn and covering Garrett, the Off
GER killed him.
Garrett fulfilled his own prophecy
Garrett came to Lincoln county in
1878 and Went into the cattle business
gaining such a reputation for nerve
rs a cowboy that in 1880 he was elect,
)ne year later that he killed Billy
he Kid" and broke up the notorious
gang of outlaw cattle thieves in the
He was later sheriff of Dona
fWn
ain of rangers in Texas, and four
years ago was appointed by his warm
riend, President Roosevelt, collector
If customs at Ell Paso, holding the
,ffice for two years. Since that time
lie has been in the ranching and min
ng business in Dona Ana county. He
vas entirely fearless, cool in emerg-
,ncies, dead shot and his work in
.nforcing the law in the lawless days
II the rustlers in southwestern New
Iexico will never be forgotten. He
vas a quiet, unassuming man and had
riends all over the territory, his enc
nies respecting him as much as his
rields.
BILLY the Kid" the ringleader of
he Lincoln county outlaws, mad
some twenty murders to his credit,
md at the time he was killed was ac
by Tom Pickett, Tom
)'Falliard, Dave Dudabaugh and
Charlie Bowda, all with long criminal
ecords. O'Falliard was afterward
;hot and killed by Garrett, as he was
attempting to draw his gun.
Garrett was sitting in dark corner
If Pete Maxwell ranch house talking
o Maxwell, when Billy the Kid enter
ID Both men shot at practically the
same instant, but Garrett was a tri-
lie the quicker. The rest of the Kids
,oterie of bad men were captured in
/ stone house ten miles from Fort
Sumner, Bowda being shot by Sheriff
Jarrett as he sailed forth from the
ioor
Friends Hint at Conspiracy.
Ell Paso. Texas, Feb. 29.-Friends
If Pat Garrett in Las Cruces claim
hat his death is the result of col-
'piracy. They declare that he was
shot first in the back of the head,
md then in the breast after he fell,
pointing out that the wound in the
,reast was made by a bullet that
,anged upward from the seventh rib
md came out between the shoulder
blades.
They say that his shotgun was load
ID with bird shot, and that ne was
lot man who would turn his back
o the man he was preparing to kill,
,r to give him an opportunity to shoot
lin in the back of the head