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ipusi.I (Cotttnmcd On Page a. txmimn -u _r_TJ WliVvJ Man About TownAnderson Called BirthplaceOf Notorious Billy The KidNew Mexico Sheriff Reported Outlaw Born HereAnderson received widespread .recognition today, dubious as il [may be.Information uncovered in SilverCity, New Mexico, indicates thaty Billy the Kid, the Old West’s mos: [notorious outlaw, was born in Lhis II city as Henry McCarty. s For more than three-quarters ofn n century, historians believed theKid's true name to be William If. Bnnncy, and they thought his birthplace to be New York City, or Brooklyn,This version of the outlaw’s life has been accepted because it appeared first in a book published in April, 1882, by Sheriff Pat Garrett, slayer of Billy the Kid. Garrett shot the Kid on the night of July 14, 1881, on the old Maxwell Rauch in New Mexico.Garrett, in his hook, The Atilhrmlic Life of Billy I he Kid. odmils he knew nothing of Billy's early life except hearsay and gives his birthplace as New York and the date Nov. 28, 1858, Both have been suspect because years of research have failed to turn up u hi rib certificate or other supporting evidence.Bill McGaw, newspaperman and Western researcher, gives an entirely different account in his copyrighted column, Out of the Wesl ” appearing today in Lite El Paso (Tfxns) Herald-Past. McGaw, quoting an interviewHenry McCarty Given As Real Name OfDesperado•103dIdticsoStdiccb]jSHERIFF WHITEN fLI,with' an old-time sheriff who knew, the Kid and his family intimately, contends Billy Ihe Kid was born at Anderson, and his accepted name was Henry Mc-Carly.The sheriff is Harvey Whitehill, who arrested the Kid for his first crime at Silver Cily, Grant County, N, M„ and the interview first appeared in the Silver Cily Enterprise, edition of Jan. 3,1002, Whilchill was sheriff of Grant Couni y all during the time Billy the Kid lived there ns a child and teen-ager and also knew the Kid's mother. Kathleen, his brother, Joe, and his step-father, William Antrim, intimately.DAUGHTER SURVIVES The slory is further corroborateed by Mrs. Robert K. Bell, octo-gencrian daughter of Sheriff Wlntehili, slill living in Silver City.it has been recognized for the last two or three years that Billy the Kid was known as Henry McCarty during his boyhood in Sit vcr City.Robert N. Mulitn and Philip J. Rasch, Western authorities, were the first to question many of Garret’s fables, when they discover-: ed the Santa Fe marriage certificate between William H. Antrim and Mrs. Catherine McCarty, who were married on March 1. 1873, by Rev. D. F. McFarland at the First Presbyterian Church. Among the witnesses were the bride’s sons, Henry and his older brother, Joe McCarty.1’. GarvctL has the Kid moving with his family from New York to Coffeyviilc. Kos., in 1862. Mu!* lin, Rasch and Ramon F. Adams, whose bonk, “A Fitting Death for |Billy the Kid, is now in the bookstores, [jo\ni ou; that there was no such place as Coffcyviile, Kas.. at that time.A search of Madison County and Anderson records likewise fails lo bring to light a birth certificate for Henry McCarty in 1839, according to ISarl J. Me-Carol, deputy health officer. However, all sources there hayc notJiRsteiPi01wk(Continued On Paso 4, Col, 5)
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Anderson Herald Bulletin
Anderson, Indiana, US
Sat, Nov 05, 1960
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