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He escaped from the Lincoln County jail on June 17, 1879. [64] Tom O'Folliard, c. 1875. Bonney avoided further violence until January 10, 1880, when he shot and killed Joe Grant, a newcomer to the area, at Hargrove's Saloon in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. [65]
The Lincoln County War brought him to the front, but several of the other Regulators were actually the driving force behind the events, and had a history of killing alongside one another prior to the war. Ab Saunders, Charlie Bowdre, Doc Scurlock, Frank Coe, and George Coe had previously killed rustlers together.
The old jail in 2014. Lincoln County was established in 1760, and had two different jails for the short-term retention of prisoners. The present building was authorized by the county in 1807, and construction lasted from 1809 to 1811. The original keeper's house was destroyed by fire, and the present brick house was built in 1837.
At his first court appearance Wednesday afternoon, a judge ordered Hurd to be held on $100,000 bail at the Lincoln County Jail and prohibited him from contacting the families of either guard and ...
The Lincoln County War was an Old West conflict between rival factions which began in 1878 in Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, the predecessor of the state of New Mexico, and continued until 1881. [1] The feud became famous because of the participation of William H. Bonney ("Billy the Kid").
The Dec. 9 situation began when authorities from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office responded to a stolen vehicle report and discovered a Dodge pickup truck which had left 291 st Street at 5:37 ...
William J. Brady (August 16, 1829 – April 1, 1878) was an Irish-born American soldier, politician, and corrupt law enforcement officer who served as the sheriff of Lincoln County during the Lincoln County Wars in New Mexico, United States. He was murdered in an ambush, aged 48, by the Lincoln County Regulators and Billy the Kid.
Lincoln County Sheriff's Office deputies conducted an investigation between November and early December and posed as children on social media platforms, according to a news release. Police allege ...