Image 1 of The Roswell daily record (Roswell, N.M.), March 2, 1908
author: Anonymous
source date: 1908
availability: public_domain

11 MSWELL VOLUME 6 ROSWELL NEW MEXICO MONDAY EVENING MARCH 2 18 NUMBER 1 EMM 1 4 i V ll I 2 5 PAT GARRETT IS KILLED SHOT TO DEATH BY HIS TENANT WAYNE BRAZELE AFTER QUARREL ON HIGHWAY WAS A ROSWELl PIONEER Settled and Improved Eight Hundred Acres of Land East of This City Received Greater Notoriety for Kill ing Billy the Kid and Causing Other Desperadoes to Bite the Dust A Famous Character Roswell people will take great Int erest in the following account of the killing of Pat F Garrett a pioneer and for many years a resident of this city the account being taken from the Albuquerque Journal which al though not the first is the best de scription of the tragedy yet received here Las Cruces N M Feb 28 Pat Garrett veteran fighter of the fron tier days in New Mexico exsherif of Lincoln county excollector of cus toms at El Paso friend of President Roosevelt and famed as the slayer of Billy the Kid was shot and al most instantly Wiled at 1130 this morning four miles northeast of Las Cruces by a young ranchman named Wawne Brazele The killing was the result