He also fought in New Mexico's Lincoln County War, during which he allegedly committed three murders. It was a moonlit night in Ft. Sumner, NM when history tells us that Sheriff Pat Garrett shot down the notorious outlaw Billy “the Kid”. Billy the Kid did it, after surviving Pat’s bullet and living in hiding under the name John Miller. People Projects Discussions Surnames Newspapers across the country quickly reported that the Kid was dead and Garrett quickly put the body in the ground. With James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado. I believe he lived, had many more adventures … before he finally died in Hico in 1950. On Dec. 20, 1882, San Miguel County issued an arrest warrant for the Kid. Shirley, Glenn. While Billy was on the run from the law, Sheriff Pat Garrett heard that the outlaw was in Fort Sumner. Pat Garrett: The Story of a Western Lawman, Leon Metz, University of Oklahoma Press Pat's last remark had been a threat, said Wayne, and he had simply acted in self-defense. He left there in 1869 and went to Dallas County, Texas. In 1983, Elizabeth Garrett, last surviving daughter of Pat Garrett, claimed to interviewer Paul Cain that her father did not kill Billy the Kid. There were a number of motives: vengeance for Pat’s activities while a lawman, fear that Garrett was continuing his investigation of the Fountain case, the desire for the water on Pat’s ranch, and a seething anger over Garrett’s killing of an alleged fugitive harbored on Cox’s San Augustine Ranch. Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid. He grew up on a prosperous plantation in Louisiana. Conveniantly named Billy Barlow. Wayne stayed in the area, married, and when his wife died, he eventually wandered off and disappeared. Young Guns II is a 1990 American Western film and a sequel to Young Guns (1988). Pat Garrett was a cowboy, rancher, and lawman who is best known for killing Billy the Kid. Who according to sources was one year younger than Billy and was the spitting image of him. Did Pat Garrett kill Billy the Kid? Garrett went straight to Pete Maxwell, a contact of Billy’s in the area. To date, at least 10 books and dozens of articles have been published examining Sheriff Pat F. Garrett, not to mention Sam Peckinpah’s classic 1973 film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, yet his murder remains one of the Southwest’s most intriguing and enduring cold cases because few historians believe Brazel was capable of violence. Pat Garrett: A Biography of the Famous Marshal and the Killer of Billy the Kid. He had a reputation as a hot-tempered man, and in 1877 he killed a friend in a drunken brawl, but was acquitted on grounds of self-defense. "Pat Garrett Tells 'How I Killed Billy the Kid.'" Rickards, Colin. In partial vindication of this story we have evidence from a number of sources that Billy the Kid did not die that night in Ft. Sumner. Nearly everybody knows that Sheriff Pat Garrett of Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, shot and killed a 21-year-old bandit named Henry McCarty, who usually went by Billy the Kid, in Pete Maxwell’s bedroom at Fort Sumner in July, 1881.What most people don’t know is that Pat Garrett was himself murdered in Doña Ana County, New Mexico 27 years later. Sheriff Pat Garrett, the man who (probably) shot Billy the Kid. Probably the most likely version says Billy had a girlfriend called Paulita who the sister off and lived of Pedro Maxwell. https://historycollection.com/mysteries-old-west-pat-garrett-kill-billy-kid/2 They were there to decide how to rid themselves of Pat Garrett. Pat’s son Dudley arranged with Jesse Brazel for a five-year lease of the Garrett’s Bear Canyon Ranch. It stars Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Christian Slater, and features William Petersen as Pat Garrett.It was written and produced by John Fusco and directed by Geoff Murphy. Billy the Kid, with Pat Garret’s bullet lodged in … Pat Garrett and the Kid no doubt knew each other, but they were not close friends. Garrett was away from Lincoln on county business when the Kid made his escape. LINCOLN, New Mexico For more than 120 years, Pat Garrett has enjoyed legendary status in the American West, a lawman on a par with Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, even Matt Dillon. Brazel used the land to raise goats, which was unacceptable to the Garrets. According to Brushy Bill, Pat Garrett did kill a man the night the kid was alledgedly murdered. Three years later, Pat’s father, John Garrett, purchased a Louisiana plantation in Claiborne Parish, where young Garrett grew up. Pat Garrett was born in Chambers County, Alabama on June 5, 1850. it was. “I now believe without a doubt that Billy the Kid was not killed by Pat Garrett in Ft. Sumner. New York: Doubleday & Co., 1960. Did Pat Garrett kill Billy the Kid? Garrett, Poe and McKinney peered through the window, and in the flickering light, they could see a figure sprawled on the floor, motionless. The man who was once the West’s most-lauded lawman died along a lonely stretch of desert road, shot in the back of the head, the killer unknown, the motive unclear. As sheriff here in Lincoln County in 1881, Garrett is credited with shooting to death the notorious outlaw known as Billy the Kid, a killing that made Garrett a hero. Garrett watched as Maxwell lit a candle and placed it in the window of the bedroom to light the interior. Newspapers across the country quickly reported that the Kid was dead and Garrett quickly put the body in the ground. Pat Garrett. It was a moonlit night in Ft. Sumner, NM when history tells us that Sheriff Pat Garrett shot down the notorious outlaw Billy “the Kid”. Real West, April 1971. No one knows who killed Pat Garrett or why. But rumors Pat Garrett’s name still generated controversy three quarters of a century after his murder. One of his first acts was to capture Billy the Kid, sending him to trial for the murder of the Lincoln sheriff and his deputy. From there he joined up with W. Skelton Glenn, as a buffalo hunter. Basil Farmer Garrett (1919-1941), English Able Seaman from Hanwell, Ealing, England, who sailed into battle aboard HMAS Sydney II and died in the sinking Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockerbie) Paul Isaac Garrett (1947-1988), American Flight Attendant from Napa, California, America, who flew aboard the Pan Am Flight 103 from Frankfurt to Detroit, known as the Lockerbie bombing in 1988 and died [12] How did billy the kid die? https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-figures/billy-the-kid.htm There are several different versions of what happened next the facts are Pat Garrett shot and killed The Kid at night. Born in Chambers County, Alabama on June 5, 1850, Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett was one of seven children born to John and Elizabeth Garrett. Pat Garrett. He was 56. Pat Garrett was raised on a prosperous pre-Civil War plantation in Louisiana, then worked as a cowboy and buffalo hunter before becoming a cop. Billy the Kid (born Henry McCarty; September 17 or November 23, 1859 – July 14, 1881), also known by the pseudonym William H. Bonney, was an American outlaw and gunfighter of the American Old West who killed eight men before he was shot and killed at the age of 21. J.P. Garrett died Dec. 30, following a battle with cancer. Shotgun for Hire: The Story of "Deacon" Jim Miller, Killer of Pat Garrett… There will be a memorial service 1-4 p.m. today at Nature Pointe Clubhouse, 30 Nature Pointe Drive, in Tijeras. Garrett tried to break the lease when he learned his creditor, W.W. “Bill” Cox, was financing Brazel. Genealogy for Patrick Floyd Garrett, Jr (1896 - 1927) family tree on Geni, with over 200 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Directed by Sam Peckinpah. The jury agreed. In Garrett's biography, The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid , when Tom O’Folliard ( a friend of the Kid's ) was mortally wounded and in pain, the dying outlaw pleaded with Garrett that if he was a friend he would put him out of his misery. References. Pat Garrett was elected Sheriff of Lincoln County in 1880 on a reform ticket with the expectation that he would reinstate justice in the area. He worked there as a cowboy until 1875. There were a number of people who did not believe the account given by Pat Garrett, partly because Garrett was not wholly reliable as a witness. Garrett questioned Maxwell for several hours in his bedroom, when suddenly (and quite by chance) Billy himself walked into the room around midnight. Died and that uh Pat Garrett wrote his uh book You know with a ups and on the authentic life of building the kid and that uh the kid was famous and finally they made a movie about him and uh it was just an ark that just kept going higher and higher and higher well what I discovered was uh by 1915, no one remembered Billy the kid and I was um he was forgotten. Mr.