Show 1 LD PAL PAt TALKS OF BILLY Y THE KID KD t t l Good to Friends but Bad With His Enemies C Chicago Billy the Kids Kid's pal came out of the West the other day daJ bringing bringing bring bring- S ing tales of New Mexico In the days when feu feuds s meant shooting It out outon outon outon on sight and plainsmen died with their boots hoots on I c It was v George Coes Coe's first trip to Chicago The rile broad shouldered broad I Ir l r white whiskered plainsman had hadr k r heard something g about Chicago bet before be- be t fore but It was more about gunmen gunmen gunt gun- gun t men than greeters f Id heat heard d Chicago had an nn awful awful aw aw- ful rep confided the visitor but hut butI butI I haven't ha seen nn anything tl to confirm i f It since Ive I've been here i With Mr Coe are his wife and niece the latter Mrs Louise H n. n Coe Coc n I New Mexico's first and only woman f t state senator Howd I r get that repeated the plainsman looking down at the stub of an nn Index finger nger on his right handBack hand Back In the days when Billy the Kid and me rue fought together out In Lincoln count county New Mexico It was the battle at nt Blazers Blazer's sawmill sawmill saw- saw mill when Bill Roberts of the other faction walked In unawares wares there were thirteen of us He wouldn't surrender so every everyone one started pumping lead One bullet tore off ocr my Index finger and knocked the six-shooter six out of my land hand I got gota a n couple of other good wounds before before before be be- fore I got out of the country after the Lincoln count county war How Trouble Start Started d dIt It began because Cheriff Cherill Brady and his gang the Murphy faction killed an English cattleman J. J H. H Tunstall There was a faction that didn't want ant any other cattlemen In Inthe Inthe inthe the country They tried to sew the whole country up for themselves and would try to run out newcom ers The uTh Englishman bought a ranch and started a sort of supply store in competition ills flis murder set things off It made Billy the Kid go wild because Tunstall was the best friend he lie had Before Defore he lie was done man man killing killing the ilie Kid hId got all of twenty one menThe menThe men The really bad part of the war lasted si six sib or or eight months months months-It It began February 18 IS 1878 ISiS and and when the whole war was over there were two seventy-two men den dead About even on both sides I should say The soldiers Interfered and most of us got out of the country We had been fair and square but when the soldiers came up we knew we couldn't fight the United States President Hayes HaJes sent a committee to Investigate after the Englishman's Englishman's English English- mans man's family had raised a row and they found we had bad been In the right The affection that still exists for Billy EUly the Kid who died with his boots on at the n age e of twenty-one twenty was apparent as ns George Coe talked of his pal Praises Kids Kid's Principles He Be was a n great boy with plenty of principle with his friends but pretty had bad with his enemies I was his pal for eighteen months He was the most agreeable man mun I ever was ms with Outside his man killing he be was fine He lIe didn't use half the bad language the rest of us did We Ve felt as if we had lint about the same bringing tip up up and mid that made madeus us kind of chummy I was left an nn orphan when I was four years old and his father died when he be was four too He lIe did his first killing I In Silver City That was when he be was twelve years old His mother took toole In washing for their living anda and a blacksmith she washed for got Insulting Billy went out looking I Ifor for him and made him film take tale It back lie told me he didn't mean to shoot but he did |