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Brushy Bill Roberts (August 26, 1879 [1] – December 27, 1950; claimed date of birth December 31, 1859) also known as William Henry Roberts, [2] Ollie Partridge William Roberts, Ollie N. Roberts, or Ollie L. Roberts, was an American man who attracted attention in the late 1940s and the 1950s by claiming to be Western outlaw William H. Bonney, (who actually died in 1881).
William Vincent Morrison (1906-1977) was an American lawyer, probate investigator, and genealogical researcher best known for his efforts in seeking a pardon for William H. "Brushy Bill" Roberts in 1950, a man who in the 1940s appeared claiming to be Billy the Kid.
Morrison privately continued his search for the man who claimed to be Billy the Kid, and in 1948 an elderly man named Frank J. Dalton in Lawton, Oklahoma claimed to be Jesse James, and said Billy the Kid was still alive in Hamilton Texas, where he was known as O. L. Roberts. [6]
Mabry dismissed Roberts' claims, and Roberts died shortly afterward. [108] Nevertheless, Hico, Texas, Roberts' town of residence, capitalized on his claim by opening a Billy the Kid museum. [109] John Miller, an Arizona man, also claimed he was Bonney. This was unsupported by his family until 1938, some time after his death.
A 110-year-old Oklahoma man who claimed to have known both outlaws was invited, and made a positive identification, while a 1930s-era Oklahoma bank robber was also invited. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] The next day Dalton was posed for a photograph with another Old West pretender, Brushy Bill Roberts , who claimed to be Billy the Kid , and the two would offer ...
A street gangster nicknamed Billy the Kid died in a hail of bullets during a revenge ride-out which ended in “crushing defeat”, a court has heard. Billy McCullagh, 27, suffered two shots in ...
At the end of the film, Scurlock left Billy the Kid's posse, fleeing from New Mexico with an Asian woman he fell for earlier in the movie in the hopes of starting a new life in the East. In the sequel , Young Guns II , Scurlock (again played by Sutherland) is serving as a school teacher in New York City when he is arrested and taken back to New ...
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