Pleasant Grove Review | 1939-05-19 | Page 8 | Cagney is Ringer for "Billy the Kid" Say Old Timers

CAGXEY IS RINGER FOR "BILLY THE KID" SAY OLD TILLERS Jimmy Cagney in his role as "The Oklahoma Kid" in the Warner Bros, picture of that name, coming to the Cameo Theatre Sunday and Monday, Mon-day, May 21 and 22, looks exactly like the only known tintype of William Will-iam Bonney, better known under his nickname of Billy the Kid. William Bonney. like James Cagney, Cag-ney, was born in New York City and never began to handle firearms until un-til he came west. Like James Cagney, Cag-ney, Bonney was good to his family but could be plenty tough on occasion. oc-casion. Billy the Kid began nis career as killer by shooting a blacksmith who had insulted his mother, and most of the deadly gunfights in which he participated in his earlier outlaw career were on the side of underdogs, under-dogs, men who were being abused by the greedy combatants in the Lincoln County, New Mexico, cattle wars. Billy the Kid, like the "Oklahoma "Ok-lahoma Kid" of the "Cagney picture, was famous for robbing those who had wealth and sharing portions of the proceeds with the poor families in that section of New Mexico. His depredations and his disregard disre-gard for life finally reached the stage where every man's hand was against Billy the Kid, and he finally final-ly was shot to death. Tex Cooper, old time Oklahoma marshal; Al Jennings, a frontier bank robber who was captured by a posse, jailed for life, released on presidential pardon, and who thereupon there-upon turned reformer, who worked in "The Oklahoma Kid," remarked the striking resemblance between Cagney and the only pictorial record of William Bonney. n