Severo Gallegos Account

[djmatt]

www.rdrnews.com/arts_and_entertainment/vision/historically-speaking-billy-the-kid-memoirs-by-severo-gallegos-part-2/article_c5a1007b-778b-58a4-baff-8b20df449975.html

Story about Severo Gallegos.
Details the escape from Lincoln jail.
Interesting bit where Severo says he went in the jail and tripped over Bell inside the building.

[MissyS]

Thanks for posting this. The account of Severo Gallegos seeing the body on the steps goes along with the luminol tests done on those steps by Steve Sederwall and the tests showed blood on the top of the steps. In a lot of accounts the story is that Bell stumbled out of the building after being shot or stumbled into the arms of Godfrey Gauss and dies, but this more likely didn’t happen? I had to look up Deputy Sheriff Johnny Hurley that the account said was killed by Billy the Kid. Johnny Hurley was actually killed in 1885 and by Nicholas Aragon, who was a friend of the Kid.