Another interesting version of the Fort Sumner shooting
Apr 13, 2019 4:32:38 GMT -5
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Post by MissyS on Apr 13, 2019 4:32:38 GMT -5
I stumbled upon yet another interesting version of the Fort Sumner shooting and this version is quite a bit different, it has Billy riding up to the house and kicking off his boots and Garrett hiding between the bed and the wall in the room. This version by Emerson Hough is in the book "Billy The Kid, The True Story Of A Western Bad Man." Summing it up, Billy made a promised appointment to see his sweetheart on a certain date and time to say his farewells, Garrett found out about this meeting and assumed Billy would keep his promised appointment and arrived in Fort Sumner before hand and stationed himself between the bed and wall in the bedroom and Pete laid in the bed, then a horseman rode up not far from the house and stopped his horse, and kicked off his boots so as to not make much sound, and came through the gate where the two deputies were sitting, he was holding his boots in his left hand and covering the deputies with his revolver in his right and asked them "Quien es?" and one deputy answered "Amigos". The deputy knew it was Billy according to this version, and as Billy was standing there in the doorway he was visible enough to Garrett and he rose up between the bed and wall, Billy hearing a sound whirled around, but Garrett shot him first, Billy fired a shot but the bullet lodged in the wall above the bed, Garrett shot again but that shot was never accounted for, Billy fell forward in the room, three shots were fired two shots accounted for. There was some more interesting things Hough wrote afterward, thats a little puzzling to me:
"As the grave received him, he was a short, undersized little man, with legs none too good, and the habit of a riding man. His eyes were bluish gray. His chin, so far from being broad and strong, was narrow and pointed. His teeth were large and projecting, the teeth of a carnivore."
So I wonder how Billy's legs became none too good?, this is the first time I read that his legs were in bad shape? and his chin being narrow and pointed does not really describe the photo of Billy, his chin does not look narrow and pointed to me. If Billy was on the grounds, in the orchard or at the home of someone close by then he wouldn't need to ride up on a horse, and why would he make a promised appointment to visit his sweetheart to say goodbye if he was hanging around fort Sumner close by at the time?
"As the grave received him, he was a short, undersized little man, with legs none too good, and the habit of a riding man. His eyes were bluish gray. His chin, so far from being broad and strong, was narrow and pointed. His teeth were large and projecting, the teeth of a carnivore."
So I wonder how Billy's legs became none too good?, this is the first time I read that his legs were in bad shape? and his chin being narrow and pointed does not really describe the photo of Billy, his chin does not look narrow and pointed to me. If Billy was on the grounds, in the orchard or at the home of someone close by then he wouldn't need to ride up on a horse, and why would he make a promised appointment to visit his sweetheart to say goodbye if he was hanging around fort Sumner close by at the time?
