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

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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.