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Post by kerry on Oct 25, 2021 19:54:28 GMT -5
Pat Garrett would have encouraged the belief that the gun was BTK's as evidence the man he shot was BTK...the model 1877/78 certainly was recovered that night - only it was never BTK's gun. The double action trigger can just be seen proudly displayed by Dirty Dave in the mid-1880 Vegas line-up that included Pat Garrett himself ...at some time before Stinking Springs - Dave must have flicked the gun to a Fort Sumner sheep herder...who in turn claimed he had swapped the gun to BTK after his escape from Lincoln jail. All 3 lawmen specifically mention the double action revolver -and indepenent witness...Charles Siringo was present when Pat auctioned the gun off with other items recovered as belonging to BTK soon after the shooting.... In 1880/81 ....the likelihood of two new double action Colt pistols being in the same vicinity at the same time anywhere in New Mexico Territory ( let alone remote Fort Sumner) - was highly unlikely....If Dirty Dave still had the gun at Stinking Springs - I think Pat would have eagerly taken this gun off Dave rather than the long barrel single action he took off Billy Wilson -( now apparently worth 6 million dollars .!.)
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