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Beaten PathByHOWARDBRYAN'( 'rtteyj::bi*rie4.-Bi;K id-,iW; y t air s - a ^0' ;tt^ay.',east bauk of, the PecosRivert; V?'■ '■•■'jyThey' buried hitn Wat brand’ new suit of clothes ..which;.: June 27,1926,'Abay^bbWbf.Uie' Sheriff Pat Garrett,1 the man . events following.the »booj^;£ who: killed him the night ■ (“After' the/i:4htj^th|i?;'?PetS; before, had purchased1, for • the , Maxwell V'Shd'T Pat occasion.' .-/.. 'i'-yv. J-.C.aipe out of the- room; leaving:Dressing the. remains; .for'; - t.ttifefi’dead . t»dy jrald^'i inp;( burial were two Fort Sumiier nobody wanted to goin: ttetii'residents, A, P, (Paco) . Ali'aya - hlrs.jpeiubine {Deluvina Max-.; arid his brother-in-law; Higinio: Well), the; cook, went inside Garcia.. -.'.ri.v..LV.'i-1 withyi jlOTp(and; saw . BjHy1': .'■', ' '.v *-: ;? lying.fade down, took away'his:ivLR. ANAYA, who ■ died ; in ' revolver, and knife, and turned • 1047'at the. age. of 86, recorded'. him faceup. . some of his recollections of that' -i -“Then. slie called out saying .• eveniulday in.. an unpublished he, was dead and it was;Uieri . manuscript arid in several-let-. that Pat, Pete,'Jesus Silva and ters he wrote in; 1926-to the Myself, Higlnlo-Garcia, -Miss-, editor of. The Albuquerque ; Paiilila Maxwell,' - Mrs.. Luz Tribune,'. then known as1 the: Maxwell,-MissOdelia Maxwell,-, New Mexico State Tribune: - Mrs.. : Jesus (Silva,; Vicente These limb-known. recollec, !.Otei-ft, , Francisco: Medina; tions have : never b e e h: Frgndsco Lobato, S a.v'a 1published in book form and have not been incorporated in any 0? the many biographies of Billy the Kid. •' :Gutierrez and Celsa Gutierrez all-saw. the body.(. “AFTER THIS, ;.Pat. called . Don/; Alejandro . Segura, who-PAT GARRETT, and; two . was; Justice of' the peace,, and deputies., rodh .i into . the quiet .. this official, caked, the. coroner village of Fork Sumner — for-1.jury,: including myself,. Jesub. merly a military post — on the \ Silva, :Higinio:Garcia,. F. night of July:14,1881. lovato,. V;. Otero, arid (aiman1They were looking for.Billy' called Negro jaramillo.y the Kid, a young desperado for ■ •'• •“?#' Garrett, wrote;, right whoni::Gqv. Lew. Wallace had . there in .person the'findings: ofbffered,a;?500 reward;.,Reaching the; .big Home of. Pete Maxwell, Sheriff Garrett left his two deputies, John W.. Poe and.Kip MCKinriey, sitting oil the veranda outside in the. bright moo Plight while he went1 in. tb' inquire about , the Kid’s ( whereabouts.Garrett roused the sleeping Maxwell in his dark-.bedroom which opened onto the veranda', sat down on the bcd_ beside him and asked him if Billy the Kid was around..the jury, (saying: that Billy, the Kid had .died of a(.'gunshot wound' at the hands, of Pat Garrettl; - ' J“We. the, jury. madeari1 ex-, amination of the wound, it:was -only.one;-on.the leftside.,.j .We took the. body and' ear-: ried it to the front room,, and ' there we put 012 him some • other .'clothes, and . we,- too, :buried him at 10 o’clock in the morning,”BEFORE MAXWELL could answer, the Kid himself walked into the unlighted room in bis stocking feet, a revolver in his right hand and' a butcher knife in his left.He had been preparing to cut some beef for a snack when he noticed the. two strangers onLATER, in an, unpublished, manuscript handed down to bis. newphew,1 Martin F. Garcia of Santa Rosa, Anaya elaborated on.some of the details. . ..Anaya stressed that1 Garrett already had written the verdict of the coroner’s jury before handing the paper to. the jury members for signing. He said 'the paper... Was '.'about. fivethe Maxwell porch, . , ; ®ches wide.’and 10 inches long.“Pete, who' are those fellows ■ . Anaya -continued his nar-out there?” Billy asked as .he: rat|Ve with an episode which, entered the bedroom. .. has escaped the nntice of Instead of answering, Pete hjstorians.Maxwellwhispered to Garrett, ■lt;Whenihepap(!r was sign--was a third man in the room and.pointed his revolver at the shadowy figure.Billy the Kid’s answer was a bullet through his heart, killing him. instantly.PACO ANAYA recalled, years later that he and several other Fort Sumner residents saw Billy the Kid 2(1 minutes before his death.In a letter to the editor of The Tribune, published onPete took, the money, (and-he and Don Manuel Abreu went to the store of the latter .and.bought a gray suit, a shirt, underclothes and socks.“The writer of this story. A.P. (Paco) Anaya and Higinio Garcia, dressed Bilito (Billy the Kid).He said Frank Lovato dug the grave in the old military cemetery just east of the old fort.
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Albuquerque Tribune
Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Thu, Jul 15, 1971
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