Image 15 of The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times (Tucumcari, N.M.), March 7, 1908
author: Anonymous
source date: 1908
availability: public_domain

PAT GARRETT KILLED IN A iUN FIGHT The Pioneer Sheriff and Slayer of Billy the Kid a Useful Man In the Civilizing of South cast New Mexico KILLED BY BRAZCL A RANCHMAN Pat Garrett one of the best known among New Mexicos oldtimers and the Lincoln county sheriff who killed Billy the Kid the boy out law nearly twentyfive years ago at old Fort Sumner near the town ot Sunnyside on the Santa Fe cut off little more than a hundred miles south and east of Tucumcari was killed last week by Wayne Brazel a ranchman six miles out of Las Cruces in a gun fight The diffi culty as reported came up over a lease of the Garrett ranch the fight taking place en route from the ranch to Las Cruses As the story goes the men were quarreling and Garrett jumped out of the buggy shotgun in hand when Brazel shot him twice with a Colts 45 once in the head and once through the lungs It seems that developments show however that the wound in the head was from the back and it will be bad for Brazel unless he can prove selfde fence Brazel rode into