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Post by noreaster on Jul 31, 2023 18:31:21 GMT -5
I found Godfrey Gauss account of Billy's escape from the Lincoln county jail (not that it was lost but I had not previously seen the original newspaper article). This is the March 1, 1890 article. Interesting that Sam Wortley made himself "useful". Gauss called Olinger over to the best place to stand to get shot...just under the window. Not saying it was intentional. However, given Billy was armed I would have thought Gauss would immediately run. He knew Bell was dead so there was nothing that he could do for him. Calling Olinger over and getting him killed should have left him with some guilt one would think...however, things may have been viewed quite differently back then.. Godfrey Gauss Article |
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Post by MissyS on Aug 4, 2023 15:11:16 GMT -5
I wonder what Sam Wortley was doing to make himself useful in the courthouse? It’s kinda odd to me that Olinger had taken other prisoners across the street to eat but when he heard the shot he came running over to the courthouse, nothing was ever said of what happened to the other prisoners standing there outside the restaurant? Who was guarding them? I guess they were shackled, but their hands may not have been cuffed because they needed to eat, did he take the time to cuff them? Seems like if Sam Wortley owned and operated the Wortley Hotel that he would have been useful helping to guard the other prisoners left eating in his establishment?  |
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Post by thumbuster on Nov 30, 2023 20:25:43 GMT -5
I own a wonderful and very clear photograph, a tintype, of Old Man Gauss. That's what Billy called him. He was a cook for John Tunstall and he also saddled their horses for them. He knew Billy pretty well. It was Mr. Gauss who tossed Billy the miner's pickax to break his leg irons after he killed Bell and Olinger.
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Post by chivato88 on Dec 3, 2023 15:23:07 GMT -5
I own a wonderful and very clear photograph, a tintype, of Old Man Gauss. That's what Billy called him. He was a cook for John Tunstall and he also saddled their horses for them. He knew Billy pretty well. It was Mr. Gauss who tossed Billy the miner's pickax to break his leg irons after he killed Bell and Olinger. You know that you can post them here dont you? |
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Post by thumbuster on Dec 5, 2023 1:14:52 GMT -5
I own a wonderful and very clear photograph, a tintype, of Old Man Gauss. That's what Billy called him. He was a cook for John Tunstall and he also saddled their horses for them. He knew Billy pretty well. It was Mr. Gauss who tossed Billy the miner's pickax to break his leg irons after he killed Bell and Olinger. You know that you can post them here dont you? My digitized copies of my collection of Sallie's tintypes have disappeared except for four. However you can see several of them shown on the Anglefire Sallie Chisum site. Don't have Godfrey's picture there however. I still have the original and that's all. I'll try to take pictures of them again. I had them all a decade ago but something happened within this computer and they are gone. |
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