Garrett, not Billy, said Quien Es..
Feb 8, 2024 4:49:40 GMT -5
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Earl (Pat) Tolen said Garrett was a father figure to him and said Pat told him he killed Billy. He said Billy's friends even told him Billy was killed. Apparently, Garrett said that he was hiding behind Pete's bed. Billy was entering and Garrett said that He(Garrett) said "Quien Es". He said Billy ignored it and just kept coming, Garrett cocks his pistol, Billy here's this after ignoring the question, cocks his and Pat shot him.
Depicts the character of Pat and Billy.
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TUCSON, ARIZONA, WEDNESDAY probation-- offi- Coivboy Says Billy the Kid Is in Boothill Tucsonan Refutes Belief That Famed Desperado Living in Mexico By ELLSWORTH MOE Is Billy the Kid a legend or alive? Last week reports came from El Paso that a Texas law firm was representing the fabled outlaw in an application for a full paudon tor the Kid. The firm filed a formal appli cation to Gov. Thomas J. Mabry, of -New Mexico, for an unconditional pardon for its client. The applying attorneys, Andress Lipscomb and Petiscolas, of El Paso, contend that Billy was onlv wounded back in 1881 and has been hiding in Mexico ever since Owns Kids Rifle A Tucson cowbov, who savs he owns Billy the Kid's old rifle, said yesterday that he doubts the story Pat Garrett told me he killed him," Earl (Pat) Tolen said, "and I believe Pat he was like a father to me." Garrett was the Lincoln county N.
M., sheriff who presumably shot and killed Billy the Kid on July 14, 18S1, in the town of Fort Sumter. He also gave Tolen the nickname he uses even todav. Tolen, who says he was born in Ohio in about 1880, came west in his early teens and knew Gar rett several years after the famed shooting. As he remembers Garrett's story of the gunfight, Garrett was on the trail of the Kid after he had been sentenced to death for the killing of Garrett's predecessor, Sheriff William Brady. Searching for Food It was late at night, and the Kid had come in to a house in Fort Sumter hungry.
He had taken his boots off and started to a house nearby occupied by Pete Maxwell. They were good friends. Maxwell and the Kid," Tolen said, "the Kid was going to ask Pete for some meat for a Mexican woman to cook for him. "Pete was in bed and Pat Gar rett was behind the bed waiting for the Kid to come in. As the Kid approached the door, Garrett asked, "Quien es?" (Spanish for, who is it?), but Billy apparently thought it was lust some sleepy Mexican and ignored the question.
"He just continued into the house and as he came Garrett cocked his gun. The Kid heard the click and went for his gun Gar rett knew it was him or the Kid then, so he shot him," Tolen declared. 'Can't Believe It' Now this guy in Mexico says he's the Kid, I see by the papers," Tolen continued. "Guess if he says he is, mavbe he is, but I can't be lieve it. His friends said he was dead, and Garrett told me he had killed him." Tolen explained that he had re ceived Billy the Kid s rifle from an old Mexican who lived near Lincoln, N.
M., some time in the 1890's. The stock of the Winchester 73, is lettered, W. H. Bonney, with small nails. Billy the Kid's real name was Yv imam Henry Bonnev.
Also nicked in the underside of the stock with a nail was the word, "Billy." Tolen said the Mexican who had the gun said it belonged to Bonney the outlaw was a cowboy in that area before his banditry- began. Tolen described Bonney as "a nice kid;" he was only 21 when Garrett shot him; he would be in his 90's now. As Tolen recalls, there were two factions at bitter odds in Lincoln county, and both groups believed they were on the side of justice. Seeks Revenge Bonney, Tolen said, started down the owlhoot trail after swearing revenge for the slaying of a friend. - V! Rl llIIIIIJJIl..IU.JI.UUMJUjUiillU.-l sf F r; Eacl (Pat) Tolen, veteran cowboy and operator, with his wife, of the Wilniot Junction cafe, Benson highway and AVilmot road, poses with what he believes was Billy the Kid's rifle.
The Winchester '73, famed in the west, bears the nail-head inscription on its stock, "AV. H. Bonney." The Kid's real name was William Henry Bonney. Reports out of Texas state that a man in Mexico who asserts he is the fabled outlaw, is seeking a full pardon from New Mexico's governor for 21 killings he allegedly committed in that state during the 1870s and 80s. (Photo by Levitz.) Billy was never knpwn to have robbed a bank or stage, Tolen said, although he might have rustled a few cattle.
Tolen, himself is practically a page out of frontier history. He says he has ridden a horse in every state west of the Missouri, and included among his friends and acquaintances such figures as Buffalo Bill Cody, the Earn broth ers, Frank James, the Dalton boys, and Al Jennings. Fancho villa, the Mexican guer rilla leader, he recalls was "a gentleman he was loved, by the poor, and was hated by the "wealthy; I'd can mm a socialist. "One thing I do remember, he ate beans with a knife and drank a mixture of half coffee and half sugar. He loved sweets." A collector of frontier relics, Tolen has seven rifles, a pair of pistols, as many knives, an Indian spear and arrow, in addition innumerable hunting trophies in-! eluding a bison head and several1 Sinaloa deer horns.
j 'Renegade's Roost' ! These adorn the walls of the' small living room in the house he constructed himself. The little home, dubbed, "Renegade's Roost" is on his 16-acre ranch he calls Trail's End, 17 miles southeast of Tucson on the Benson highway at .Wilmot road. Also on the walls of his living-room is a large photograph of Ed Echols whom Tolen regards as "a real cowboy and the best sheriff we ever had there's nothing dude about him," Tolen added. Tolen is probably one of the few waddies of the far west who tends bar wearing a 10-gallon hat. Although in his 70s, Tolen looks like he might be 50; his range-hardened body is still slim and his blue eyes keen.
And they wear a skeptical look when Billy the Kid's survival is mentioned. A pocket gopher, when in its burrow, runs forward or backward with equal ease. Brrr . . .
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Earl (Pat) Tolen said Garrett was a father figure to him and said Pat told him he killed Billy. He said Billy's friends even told him Billy was killed. Apparently, Garrett said that he was hiding behind Pete's bed. Billy was entering and Garrett said that He(Garrett) said "Quien Es". He said Billy ignored it and just kept coming, Garrett cocks his pistol, Billy here's this after ignoring the question, cocks his and Pat shot him.
Depicts the character of Pat and Billy.
Full article:
TUCSON, ARIZONA, WEDNESDAY probation-- offi- Coivboy Says Billy the Kid Is in Boothill Tucsonan Refutes Belief That Famed Desperado Living in Mexico By ELLSWORTH MOE Is Billy the Kid a legend or alive? Last week reports came from El Paso that a Texas law firm was representing the fabled outlaw in an application for a full paudon tor the Kid. The firm filed a formal appli cation to Gov. Thomas J. Mabry, of -New Mexico, for an unconditional pardon for its client. The applying attorneys, Andress Lipscomb and Petiscolas, of El Paso, contend that Billy was onlv wounded back in 1881 and has been hiding in Mexico ever since Owns Kids Rifle A Tucson cowbov, who savs he owns Billy the Kid's old rifle, said yesterday that he doubts the story Pat Garrett told me he killed him," Earl (Pat) Tolen said, "and I believe Pat he was like a father to me." Garrett was the Lincoln county N.
M., sheriff who presumably shot and killed Billy the Kid on July 14, 18S1, in the town of Fort Sumter. He also gave Tolen the nickname he uses even todav. Tolen, who says he was born in Ohio in about 1880, came west in his early teens and knew Gar rett several years after the famed shooting. As he remembers Garrett's story of the gunfight, Garrett was on the trail of the Kid after he had been sentenced to death for the killing of Garrett's predecessor, Sheriff William Brady. Searching for Food It was late at night, and the Kid had come in to a house in Fort Sumter hungry.
He had taken his boots off and started to a house nearby occupied by Pete Maxwell. They were good friends. Maxwell and the Kid," Tolen said, "the Kid was going to ask Pete for some meat for a Mexican woman to cook for him. "Pete was in bed and Pat Gar rett was behind the bed waiting for the Kid to come in. As the Kid approached the door, Garrett asked, "Quien es?" (Spanish for, who is it?), but Billy apparently thought it was lust some sleepy Mexican and ignored the question.
"He just continued into the house and as he came Garrett cocked his gun. The Kid heard the click and went for his gun Gar rett knew it was him or the Kid then, so he shot him," Tolen declared. 'Can't Believe It' Now this guy in Mexico says he's the Kid, I see by the papers," Tolen continued. "Guess if he says he is, mavbe he is, but I can't be lieve it. His friends said he was dead, and Garrett told me he had killed him." Tolen explained that he had re ceived Billy the Kid s rifle from an old Mexican who lived near Lincoln, N.
M., some time in the 1890's. The stock of the Winchester 73, is lettered, W. H. Bonney, with small nails. Billy the Kid's real name was Yv imam Henry Bonnev.
Also nicked in the underside of the stock with a nail was the word, "Billy." Tolen said the Mexican who had the gun said it belonged to Bonney the outlaw was a cowboy in that area before his banditry- began. Tolen described Bonney as "a nice kid;" he was only 21 when Garrett shot him; he would be in his 90's now. As Tolen recalls, there were two factions at bitter odds in Lincoln county, and both groups believed they were on the side of justice. Seeks Revenge Bonney, Tolen said, started down the owlhoot trail after swearing revenge for the slaying of a friend. - V! Rl llIIIIIJJIl..IU.JI.UUMJUjUiillU.-l sf F r; Eacl (Pat) Tolen, veteran cowboy and operator, with his wife, of the Wilniot Junction cafe, Benson highway and AVilmot road, poses with what he believes was Billy the Kid's rifle.
The Winchester '73, famed in the west, bears the nail-head inscription on its stock, "AV. H. Bonney." The Kid's real name was William Henry Bonney. Reports out of Texas state that a man in Mexico who asserts he is the fabled outlaw, is seeking a full pardon from New Mexico's governor for 21 killings he allegedly committed in that state during the 1870s and 80s. (Photo by Levitz.) Billy was never knpwn to have robbed a bank or stage, Tolen said, although he might have rustled a few cattle.
Tolen, himself is practically a page out of frontier history. He says he has ridden a horse in every state west of the Missouri, and included among his friends and acquaintances such figures as Buffalo Bill Cody, the Earn broth ers, Frank James, the Dalton boys, and Al Jennings. Fancho villa, the Mexican guer rilla leader, he recalls was "a gentleman he was loved, by the poor, and was hated by the "wealthy; I'd can mm a socialist. "One thing I do remember, he ate beans with a knife and drank a mixture of half coffee and half sugar. He loved sweets." A collector of frontier relics, Tolen has seven rifles, a pair of pistols, as many knives, an Indian spear and arrow, in addition innumerable hunting trophies in-! eluding a bison head and several1 Sinaloa deer horns.
j 'Renegade's Roost' ! These adorn the walls of the' small living room in the house he constructed himself. The little home, dubbed, "Renegade's Roost" is on his 16-acre ranch he calls Trail's End, 17 miles southeast of Tucson on the Benson highway at .Wilmot road. Also on the walls of his living-room is a large photograph of Ed Echols whom Tolen regards as "a real cowboy and the best sheriff we ever had there's nothing dude about him," Tolen added. Tolen is probably one of the few waddies of the far west who tends bar wearing a 10-gallon hat. Although in his 70s, Tolen looks like he might be 50; his range-hardened body is still slim and his blue eyes keen.
And they wear a skeptical look when Billy the Kid's survival is mentioned. A pocket gopher, when in its burrow, runs forward or backward with equal ease. Brrr . . .
The Texas law firm Andress Lipscomb and Petiscolas, of El Paso, was the firm Ted Andress was a part of, he was hired on to help Brushy with his pardon, he’s not discussed all that much. He’s also I believe the same lawyer that was shot and killed by a Doctor on Jan. 29, 1959, at the El Paso International Airport terminal. The rifle owned by Earl Tolen with the hammered nails spelling the name is awesome, I wonder what ever happened to it? Earl (Pat) Tolen may have been confused with which one said “Quien Es” but it’s very interesting. Seems like every telling of the account had Billy asking Quien Es, but I can understand why Pat Garrett could have said it, since there may have been small kids in the house? I found a reference of Pete and his wife Sara C. Lutes (or Lutz) had three children; William Maxwell born 1876, Dilla Maxwell born 1879, and Lucien Maxwell born 1880, these three children aged 5 years old, 2 year old 1 year old at the time when the shooting occured. So in a darkened room calling out Quien Es could have been for safety in case a child wondered in the dark room, but since it was supposedly around midnight they may have all been in bed though.