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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2019 10:58:41 GMT -5
Great find! Jesus bless you and your family
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2019 11:52:39 GMT -5
MissyS It is the same man. To me there is a better newspaper article in the Express and News, San Antonio, Texas, 06 Dec. 1964, page 83. It is about Leslie Traylor. I came across Mr. Traylor a few years back when I was looking into the picture said to have been of John Able and Billy the Kid. On the back of the picture I found going through files was a statement made by Mr. Traylor. I first thought he was talking about J. Frank Dalton but later found the newspaper article on Henry Street Smith. So the fiddle picture Martile had was Henry Smith? Or did you think that Smith was the man in the picture? Or was it Traylor that thought Smith was the fiddle player in the picture? Elaborate for me if you will. Jesus bless you and your family
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Post by MissyS on Dec 6, 2019 13:29:38 GMT -5
MissyS It is the same man. To me there is a better newspaper article in the Express and News, San Antonio, Texas, 06 Dec. 1964, page 83. It is about Leslie Traylor. I came across Mr. Traylor a few years back when I was looking into the picture said to have been of John Able and Billy the Kid. On the back of the picture I found going through files was a statement made by Mr. Traylor. I first thought he was talking about J. Frank Dalton but later found the newspaper article on Henry Street Smith. nmjames Thanks for the info, it's puzzling because one source says Fiddling Henry Smith died outside Lordsburg NM in 1937 and the news article about Henry Street Smith said he died in Prescott Arizona on Oct. 17,1955. If Traylor went to find him in 1943, it couldn't be the same man, unless one source is wrong about his death?, but the odds they both have the same first and last name and are musically inclined, and both had somewhat claims to have been BTK seem too much to be coincidental.
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Post by MissyS on Dec 6, 2019 13:41:46 GMT -5
rufus Interesting question Here's the thread that was posted about the fiddle player and John Ables brushybill.proboards.com/thread/157/billy-kid-fiddle-playerThere is an image of Fiddling Henry Smith in the book Tall Tales and Half Truths of Billy the Kid by John LeMay, the two can be looked at for comparison maybe?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2019 14:14:43 GMT -5
And, according to the following:
Haunted Prescott (2018)
Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography (1991)
Burs Under the Saddle (1964)
Whatever Happened to Billy The Kid (1993)
As well as "Tall Tales & Half Truths of Billy The Kid", both John Miller & Fiddling Henry Smith alias Henry Street Smith, both ended up in the same nursing home and both are buried in the same cemetery.
That's pretty ridiculous odds of having two Billy The Kid claimants in the exact same area. Lol
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2019 16:16:21 GMT -5
Missy pointed me to the New Mexico Museum, under the media files of the Palace of the Governor's section, to the picture of Fiddling Henry Smith alias Henry Street Smith alias Henry Walkabout Smith who claimed to be Billy The Kid. I'm not certain who is which, though the website seems to indicate the shorter man on the right is Smith and the man on the left is Elijah Bain, which is laughable if that's the case because the gentleman with the mustache and fancy cowboy clothes looks more like he'd be suitable to be a Kid claimant. Either way, let's see if the Martile Able picture and either one of these men are a "match" for who she claimed was Billy The Kid. Mind you, she discredited Smith so the matter is immaterial but still worth doing. Jesus bless you all 😊
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Post by MissyS on Dec 21, 2019 13:45:10 GMT -5
Thinking about Wayne Land's idea of Brushy being the last man standing in the arena is interesting and makes good logic, the process of elimination is pretty much the basics of the way law enforcement uses to narrow down to one suspect when they have many. Billy the Kid had some characteristics that are not that common, being ambidextrous is like 1% of the population, having blue colored eyes with grey or brown flecks can't be that common? How many men can say that their photo has a 93% match to Billy the Kids? The characteristics they both shared is pretty amazing. I believe Morrison realized the odds when he met Brushy, he was convincing then and he's still convincing today nearly 70 years later because of the odds. Peace, Love and Joy to You All
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