He learned that The Kid was staying with a mutual friend, Pedro Maxwell. On July 14, 1881, Garrett visited Fort Sumner to question a friend of The Kid's about the whereabouts of the outlaw. Though he was convicted, The Kid managed to escape from jail on April 18, 1881, after killing his guards J. A few nights later, the sheriff's posse killed Charlie Bowdre, captured The Kid and his companions, and transported the captives to Mesilla, New Mexico, for trial. New Mexico Governor Lew Wallace had personally put a $500 reward on McCarty's capture.ĭuring a December 19 shootout, Garrett killed Tom O'Folliard, a member of McCarty's gang.
He was said to have killed twenty-one men, one for every year of his life, but the actual total was probably closer to nine. McCarty was an alleged murderer who had participated in the Lincoln County War. Garrett was charged with tracking down and arresting a friend from his saloon keeping days, Henry McCarty, a jail escapee and Lincoln County War participant who often went by the aliases Henry Antrim and William Harrison Bonney, but is better known as " Billy the Kid". As Kimbell's successor, the county appointed Garrett, a member of the Republican Party who ran as a Democrat and a gunman of some reputation who had promised to restore law and order. On November 7, 1880, the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, George Kimbell, resigned with two months left in his term. One of the only known fotos of Billy the Kid
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