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Post by MissyS on Oct 6, 2016 4:07:54 GMT -5
There's something interesting about Paulita Maxwell's interview by Walter Noble Burns. Was she present with her brother Pete and Garrett when he was asking questions to him in the room just before Billy supposedly entered? Here is an excert from that interview..
" Billy the Kid, after his escape at Lincoln, came to Fort Sumner, it is true, to see a woman he was in love with. But it was not I. Pat Garrett ought to have known who she was because he was connected with her, and not very distantly, by marriage. The night the Kid was killed, Garrett asked Pete Maxwell why the Kid was in Fort Sumner. Pete shook his head and said he didn’t know. But he merely wanted to save Garrett embarrassment. He knew and I knew. I was standing beside Pete’s chair at the time and I would have answered Garrett’s question if Pete, by a look, had not warned me to keep my mouth shut".
By reading this it sounds like she was in the room when Garrett was inquiring about Billy when Garrett went in to talk with Pete. Billy or Barlow had soon walked up to the porch, so did Paulita by slim chance slip away just before the shooting? Strange Garrett didnt mention her being in the room nor Pete either? Im wondering just how long did Garrett and Pete talk? If it was so dark that Billy couldn't see Garrett in the room why was Paulita there? Could she have meant after the shooting? Thoughts please
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Post by mckinley412 on Oct 6, 2016 17:29:49 GMT -5
Wow. I think you deserve the post of the year award. That is fantastic. I need to start paying better attention. Good job Missy. That made my day. That is awesome.
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Post by MissyS on Oct 10, 2016 2:26:33 GMT -5
I'm glad it made your day mckinley412, Thanks but , I wonder just what she meant?, maybe Burns was confused about what she said?
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Post by mckinley412 on Oct 10, 2016 13:18:33 GMT -5
I believe it was nmjames that recently said Burns and Paulita's chapter is written about and discussed in detail in some book. Something about he had to change some details. Where at on the forum he gave the name of the book is anyone's guess.
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Post by mckinley412 on Oct 10, 2016 13:54:05 GMT -5
I found the book. It is American Mythmaker by Dworkin and it looks very very interesting from the preview i read on Google books
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Post by Henry McCarty Fan 1 on Nov 16, 2016 16:20:54 GMT -5
Maybe the question was asked after the killing that night. She said she was standing by Pete's chair. This indicates he was sitting in a chair, not lying in bed as most accounts place him at the time of the shooting. In my opinion, she was one of the people who saw his body and entered the room after the killing. She did know exactly in what condition it was in which the Kid was shot though. My theory is that Billy was in Deluvina's house with her daughter. Came out to cut some meat. Saw some guys outside, went in to question Pete and was shot during his first question by Garrett, whose eyes already adjusted to the dark in the room. Paulita was probably awakened by the gunshot; I think her room was down the hallway from Pete's? I read somewhere that they sent a woman in to make sure he was dead. With the story of her going to Billy's tombstone at midnight, maybe it was Paulita or Deluvina who went in there with a candle when Garrett and his posse took a position in one of the rooms for fear of retaliation. She had the grit to be in that room at the time, and as a nosy little sister sometimes does, maybe she saw it all. Awesome post.
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Post by mckinley412 on Nov 17, 2016 2:33:26 GMT -5
She said in a interview she did not see the body until the morning.
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Post by nmjames on Nov 19, 2016 23:53:03 GMT -5
Deluvina Maxwell said she didn't see the body until the next morning in a 1927 interview with J. Evetts Haley. I don't know of Deluvina having a daughter or any children.
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Post by Beaker on Feb 6, 2019 9:59:49 GMT -5
Why would they have just let him pass by and not ask who he is? Maybe she was able to slip away and warn Billy or someone else told him what Paulita heard. And I thought at least one of the deputies knew his description and would of noticed him. Other things I wonder about that night too.
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Post by mckinley412 on Feb 10, 2019 2:20:18 GMT -5
according to Severo Gallegos someone did ask who he was and Barlow answered 'Billy' and was shot.
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Post by leeb on Apr 22, 2019 6:05:13 GMT -5
How come Pete Maxwell never gave an account of what happened that night?
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Post by Wayne Land on Apr 22, 2019 9:17:13 GMT -5
Because if you're unwilling to tell the truth about something and also unwilling to lie, being quiet about it is your only option.
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Post by leeb on Apr 22, 2019 9:23:22 GMT -5
Because if you're unwilling to tell the truth about something and also unwilling to lie, being quiet about it is your only option. Or maybe he was riddled with guilt.
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Post by kerry on Dec 18, 2019 1:42:40 GMT -5
I believe the message Paulita was giving to living history was her clear inference that BTK fathered a child in Fort Sumner which means if Brushy was shown to be the paternal ancestor ot descendants - then he was'nt 3 years old in 1881 ! Perhaps Billy's contrived death was protecting the reputation of an unmarried mother ? Paulita thought it important posterity had this information without knowing about DNA...she wanted the truth to be known even though she could only allude to the facts..it would have be impossible for her to have done otherwise...a very great and proud lady true to her heritage...entrapped in romanticism of then and now...
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Post by kerry on Dec 28, 2019 16:36:50 GMT -5
Pete Maxwell's epitaph is also Paulita's words referring to his anxious fears in life....despite his position in Fort Sumner he was vulnerable - a man was shot in his bedroom who Garrett claimed to be BTK and claimed Maxwell said it was him before the shot was fired. With BTK at large until he died- Pete must have been very anxious indeed...in addition Pete had crossed Garrett by swapping the body that couldn't go back to Lincoln and compassionately allowing his people to save Billy Barlow and then equipping him for a start as further west out of sight as possible.Compare this to Pat playing cards while O'Folliard was left to die slowly ...Pete Maxwell and his Mexican community would have feared Pat Garrett and the truth being revealed more than any vengeful reappearance of the Kid.
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