Sheriff Whitehill did not expect to find…
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

that King had left town before the killing occurred. It seems that Pat Devine, who has made good his escape into the Sierra Madre, is accredited with doing most of the shooting. Sheriff Whitehill did not expect to find Pat Devine in Tombstone, but strange to say, he ( 2 ) arrived there the same night, and although well disguised, King’s friends, who were an- xious for his capture, soon spotted him, and Sheriff Whitehill was informed of the fact. The sheriff lost no time in getting after his man, but he had left town and taken to the hills. Whitehill offered a reward of $100 for his cap- ture, and in person, although worn out with travel, took the trail and followed it for some distance. Pat was finally arrested near Fair- banks, and the reward paid. He had cut off his mustache and discarded his false teeth, and it is said that these slight changes in his toilet so altered his appearance that his mother would not have recognized him. He had nothing to say to the reporter, but looked tough and dis- appointed. Walter Birchfield did not have anything to say in particular, but did not appear in bad spirits. He said it was not as bad an affair as reported. He was sure that Billy King was not there at the time of the killing. It is said Walter has stated that Devine did the shooting.