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78-446: On March 20, two days after Morgan's murder, Wyatt Earp and his brothers Warren and James along with Doc Holliday , and two other deputies were escorting Virgil and his wife Allie to a California-bound train in Tucson . They learned that suspects Ike Clanton and Frank Stilwell were already waiting there. After Virgil, Allie, and James boarded the train, Wyatt spotted two men near

156-490: A band of four or five slayers pursued a lonely man in the dark and without a word of warning murdered him in cold blood and then hied to their stamping grounds as unconcerned as though they had when out on a hunting expedition, or like so many blood-thirsty Apaches rejoice over their crime. The Coroner's Jury in Tucson found that Stilwell had died at the hands of Wyatt and Warren Earp, Holliday, McMaster, and Johnson. Tucson Justice of

234-768: A camp near Tombstone known as "Pick-em-up". Complicating matters, a Tombstone deputy sheriff rode out to Pick-em-up and served a warrant on McMaster, who was accused of stealing two horses from the Contention mine. The Earp posse rode back into Tombstone where Sherman McMaster made bail. He and Charlie Smith took a room at the Cosmopolitan Hotel near the Earps. On January 30, Ike and Phin Clanton surrendered to Wells Fargo agent Charley Bartholomew and were jailed in Tombstone. They learned that

312-468: A fifth round, this time striking Earp in the chest, killing him almost instantly. Boyett claimed that he feared for his life, and that by allowing Warren Earp to get too close, he believed his life was in danger. Warren Earp was found to have no gun, though he had an open pocket knife in his fist. No arrest was made. Lynn R. Baily, the daughter of rancher Henry Hooker , wrote in Henry Clay Hooker and

390-639: A long period of time. Wyatt did not get involved in the incident, nor did James or Newton. It was later falsely reported that the Earps avenged Warren's death by killing Boyett. Boyett eventually retired in Redlands , California. He later died in Texas. Warren Earp was buried in Willcox, Arizona in the Pioneer Cemetery. Warren is portrayed by Jim Caviezel in the movie Wyatt Earp (1994) . Martyn Huntley portrayed him in

468-473: A man in a quarrel in Tip Top , Arizona Territory, and was sent to Yuma Territorial Prison . John Blount adopted the alias Jack Johnson and went to Tombstone seeking Wyatt Earp's help to get his brother pardoned. Wyatt helped by writing a petition to Governor Fremont, whom Wyatt knew, and Bud Blount was eventually freed. As a way to repay his debt, Johnson joined the posse. Charlie Smith had a long-time connection to

546-408: A man named "Fries" (later identified as Frederick Bode), and two Indians (later identified as Hank Swilling and Florentino Cruz) took part in the killing. She testified that four days before the shooting she and her mother were standing at Spence's house when Morgan walked by. "The Indian then started down the street, & got ahead of him to get a good look at him." She also stated that on the night of

624-526: A newspaper interview afterward that he and Stilwell had been in Tucson to respond to a federal subpoena for interfering with a U.S. mail carrier when he allegedly robbed the Sandy Bob line of the Bisbee stage on September 8, 1881. The federal charges had been filed by Virgil Earp after Stilwell was acquitted for lack of evidence on the state charges of robbery. Clanton said he had heard that the Earps were coming in on

702-516: A pistol. Nathan W. Waite of Ash Canyon in the Huachuca Mountains was on the train with the Earp party. He said the Earp men were all armed and McMaster was wearing two cartridge belts. In Tucson, the party was greeted at the train station by Deputy U.S. Marshal Joseph W. Evans. Virgil and other witnesses later reported that they saw Stilwell, Ike Clanton, and other Cowboys at the train station. "Almost

780-481: A posse. Commenting on Earp's request to Dake, the Weekly Arizona Miner wrote on December 30, 1881 about the repeated threats received by the Earps and others. For some time, the Earps, Doc Holliday, Tom Fitch and others who upheld and defended the Earps in their late trial have received, almost daily, anonymous letters, warning them to leave town or suffer death, supposed to have been written by friends of

858-489: A story published on May 14, 1893, Wyatt told a reporter for the Denver Republican : The sheriff called on me to surrender, and I told him I would not do it. He assembled a posse about the door of my room to take me in, but I walked through the men, and none of them offered to lay a hand upon me. Warren Earp Warren Baxter Earp (March 9, 1855 – July 6, 1900) was an American frontiersman and lawman . He

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936-564: A train to kill Stilwell. According to Clanton, Stilwell left the hotel and was last seen walking down the railroad tracks away from the Porter Hotel, towards where his body was later found on the tracks. Virgil later told the Examiner, "One thing is certain, if I had been without an escort they would have killed me." The next day, the newspapers were full of news about Frank Stilwell's death. The Arizona Star reported, ... without any provocation

1014-422: A weak attempt to arrest them at the Cosmopolitan Hotel before they left, but Wyatt Earp told him he didn't want to see him; that he had seen him once too often, and thereupon the Earp party mounted their horses and rode away.". One of Behan's deputies, Billy Breakenridge , claimed Wyatt and his men resisted arrest and even pulled their guns on Behan and Dave Neagle, one of Wyatt's friends, to prevent their arrest. In

1092-453: Is too hasty, quick-tempered and too ready to pick a quarrel. Besides he will not let bygones be bygones, and on that account, I expect that he will meet a violent death. ' " On July 6, 1900, Warren became involved in an argument with Hooker's range boss, Johnny Boyett, inside Brown's Saloon in Willcox. Boyett and Warren had been involved in verbal disputes before that night, and rumor was that their mutual dislike stemmed from affections for

1170-599: The Doctor Who serial " The Gunfighters " in 1966. Sherman McMaster Sherman McMaster (1853–1892) was an outlaw turned lawman, who was one of the six men involved in the Earp vendetta ride . Sherman W. McMaster was born in 1853 in Rock Island, Illinois , the son of Sylvester W. McMaster. Not much is known of his life before heading out west, but he moved to Texas and became a Texas Ranger . He met "Curly Bill" Brocius , who

1248-583: The Faro concession at the Oriental Saloon. Virgil was the deputy marshal and in mid-1881 became the Tombstone city marshal as well. James was his deputy. The Earps had ongoing conflicts with a loose federation of outlaws known as The Cowboys , who were implicated in ongoing livestock thefts and had repeatedly threatened to kill the Earps if they interfered. Warren was at his parents' home in Colton, California at

1326-655: The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral on October 26, 1881. The 30-second gunfight is generally regarded as the most famous gunfight in the history of the American Wild West . The lawmen killed three of the Cowboys during the gunfight. Ike Clanton filed murder charges, and after a month-long preliminary hearing , Justice of the Peace Wells Spicer found that the lawmen had acted within their duty. But Spicer's finding did not end

1404-456: The saloon onto the street without producing a weapon, just as Boyett fired two more rounds, missing again with both. Earp entered the saloon again and walked towards Boyett, opened his coat and vest. "I have not got arms. You have a good deal the best of this". Earp continued walking toward Boyett, talking the entire time. As Boyett warned him several times to halt, Boyett appearing slightly frightened but angry. When Earp did not stop, Boyett fired

1482-451: The Arizona frontier, died with his boots on here. He was shot through the heart in a saloon by Cowboy Johnny Boyett, and died almost Instantly." Boyett was arrested for the shooting. The coroner's inquest confirmed that he killed Earp. Boyett sought protection from the local sheriff, fearing retribution from the Earp brothers. He returned to work on Hooker's ranch, staying out of Willcox for

1560-499: The Clanton and McLowry boys, three of whom the Earps and Holliday killed and little attention was paid to them as they were believed to be idle boasts but the shooting of Virgil Earp last night shows that the men were in earnest. Dake replied affirmatively by telegraph, and Deputy U.S. Marshal Wyatt Earp deputized Warren Earp, Doc Holliday, Sherman McMaster , Jack "Turkey Creek" Johnson , Charlie "Hairlip Charlie" Smith , Daniel "Tip" Tipton , and John "Texas Jack" Vermillion to protect

1638-400: The Cowboys to assist the Earps in their search. He also liked fine horses. Jack "Turkey Creek" Johnson, whose real name according to Wyatt Earp was John William Blount, was a native of Missouri who was raised in the lead mining area near Neosho . Blount was forced to flee Missouri in 1877 after he and his brother were involved in a violent street battle. During May 1881, his brother Bud killed

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1716-694: The Cowboys' ongoing criminal activity. On January 17, 1882, Johnny Ringo and Doc Holliday had traded threats, resulting in their arrest by Tombstone's chief of police, James Flynn. Both were fined and Judge Stilwell noted that charges were still outstanding against Ringo for a robbery in Galeyville. Ringo was rearrested and jailed on January 20. On January 23, Wyatt rode with his deputized posse, consisting of his brothers Morgan and Warren, Doc Holliday, "Texas Jack" Vermillion and four others, to Charleston, Arizona where Ike Clanton , his brother Phin , and Pony Diehl were known to stay. Ringo, still in jail, learned that

1794-651: The Cowboys. Wyatt Earp claimed in the Flood manuscript that McMaster had been killed in 1898 in the Philippines while serving as a soldier in the Spanish–American War . However, official records do not list him as a soldier. A probate record filed by his siblings in 1906 listed his death in Colorado in 1892. McMaster has been portrayed in almost every film about the Earps. He was played by Monte Markham in 1967's Hour of

1872-460: The Dragoon mountains, where the Earps are supposed to be at present. The Sheriff made a weak attempt to arrest them at the Cosmopolitan Hotel before they left, but Wyatt Earp told him he didn't want to see him; that he had seen him once too often, and thereupon the Earp party mounted their horses and rode away. There is a very uneasy feeling among the cow-boy element, as the Earps are rendered desperate by

1950-501: The Earp family, and was fluent in Spanish after spending several years in Texas working in saloons . While in Fort Worth he had been associated with barman James Earp , and participated in at least two gunfights there, and was seriously wounded in 1878. Arriving in Tombstone in 1879 with Robert J. Winders, Smith immediately became associated with the Earps. Winders and the Earps partnered on

2028-421: The Earps and some of their associates rode out of Arizona Territory, headed for New Mexico Territory . After a long-simmering feud and increasing animosity and threats, Tombstone town Marshal Virgil Earp , Assistant Town Marshal Morgan Earp , and temporary deputy marshals Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday confronted outlaw Cowboys Billy Claiborne , Ike and Billy Clanton , and Tom and Frank McLaury in

2106-411: The Earps had warrants and were headed for Charleston. He arranged for bail and Sheriff Behan released him before the bail payment arrived. James Earp immediately filed an affidavit saying Ringo was "an escaped prisoner" and charged that Ringo intended to interfere with Wyatt's execution of the warrants. Ringo immediately rode to Charleston to warn his Cowboy friends. On the way to Charleston, Earp's posse

2184-549: The Earps, Vermillion remained by Wyatt Earp's side during the shootout at Iron Springs with Curly Bill Brocius. A veteran of the Civil War on the Confederate side who rode with J.E.B. Stuart 's Virginia cavalry, Vermillion was an accomplished horseman and pistoleer . U.S. Marshal Dake visited Tombstone in late January 1881 with acting Governor John J. Gosper . Dake had previously and unsuccessfully requested financial assistance from

2262-514: The Gun , Markham’s feature-length movie debut, in which the character is the sheriff of a neighboring county recruited by Wyatt Earp into the posse (historically inaccurate); by Todd Allen in Wyatt Earp (1994), where he is a Tombstone deputy marshal working for Wyatt and Virgil; and by Michael Rooker in the 1993 film Tombstone , where he is a member of the Cowboys who joins Earp's posse after quitting

2340-691: The Mountain Maid mine. Daniel "Tip" Tipton arrived in Tombstone in March ;1881. He had a shady reputation earned during the early days of the mining boom in Virginia City , Nevada Territory . Tipton, a former Union seaman in the Civil War , was tattooed on his hands and forearms, and took up mining and gambling after the war. In 1879 he was in the Gunnison district of Colorado before traveling to Tombstone at

2418-483: The Oriental Hotel was sold. Morgan and Bob Hatch began a game of pool and Wyatt, Tipton, and McMaster watched. The table was near the back door. At 10:50 pm, someone fired two shots through the window of the back door. One bullet passed through Morgan, shattered his spine, and then lodged in the thigh of George A. B. Berry. Another bullet struck the wall over Wyatt's head. Wyatt, McMaster and Tipton pulled Morgan out of

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2496-578: The Peace Charles Meyer issued arrest warrants for the five men. On the night of March 20, after killing Stilwell in Tucson, and verifying that the train was on its way to California with the rest of their family, the Earp party was afoot. They walked 15 miles (24 km) southeast back along the Southern Pacific tracks out of Tucson to the Papago freight stop. (The station was later renamed Esmond and

2574-577: The Rangers to break up the outlaw Cowboys . By the time the clash between the Earps and the Cowboys came about, McMaster's allegiance was with the Earps. He played an important role in the vendetta. Once a member of the Cowboys (an outlaw gang), he later changed his views and sided with the Earps. He had, by all accounts, previously met and become friends with Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday in Dodge City, Kansas . He assisted Wyatt Earp in taking his revenge on

2652-508: The Sierra Bonita , that "Virgil Earp sneaked into Willcox under an assumed name, checked into the hotel near Brown ' s Saloon, and began interviewing witnesses. He concluded his brother ' s death was "cold blooded murder even if Warren was drunk and abusive at the time." The Tombstone Epitaph reported on July 9, 1900, "Warren Earp, the youngest of the four Earp brothers whose names twenty years ago were synonymous with gun fighting on

2730-441: The Tucson warrants, and attempted to detain the five members of Earp's federal posse named in the warrants, but they ignored him. Still carrying arrest warrants for Curly Bill Brocius and others, they left Tombstone to pursue further Cowboys implicated in the attacks. Behan formed a Cochise County sheriff's posse consisting of deputies Phineas Clanton , Johnny Ringo , and about twenty other Cowboys and Arizona ranchers. Based on

2808-532: The United States Attorney General, Wayne MacVeagh , to help track down and arrest the Cowboys. Dake's superior told him he must reduce his official debt below the penalty bond of $ 20,000 before an additional appropriation could be made. In September 1881, Governor Gosper told Secretary of Interior Kirkwood that Arizona contained "a small army of outlaws well armed and fully able to cope with the ordinary civil powers of our counties." Not believing that

2886-546: The attempted assassination of Virgil Earp and the cold-blooded murder of Morgan Earp. The coroner 's jury concluded that Spence, Stilwell, Fries, and "two half-breed Indians" were responsible for Morgan's murder. Unknown to Wyatt, three of the Cowboys he sought were in Behan's jail. After the Coroner's Jury ended, Spence immediately turned himself in, protected in Behan 's jail. On the day of

2964-471: The bank to authorize his use of the funds. Dake was later accused, although not convicted, of spending $ 300 on gambling and prostitutes while in Tombstone and misappropriating most of the rest of the money. In January 1882, Wyatt Earp sought and received warrants from Judge William H. Stilwell for the arrest of the men thought responsible for ambushing Virgil. Judge Stilwell was among a number of Cochise County citizens unhappy with Sheriff Behan's failure to stop

3042-534: The brush where alibis don't count." Ike Clanton refiled murder charges against the Earps and Doc Holliday in Contention, Arizona for their killing of his brother and the McLaury brothers. When he could not provide new evidence, the charges were dismissed. On February 13, Wyatt mortgaged his home to lawyer James G. Howard for $ 365.00 (about $ 11,524 today), but was never able to repay the loan and in 1884 Howard foreclosed on

3120-540: The coroner's inquest into Morgan's death. She told the jury that her husband Pete Spence and several others who she identified had talked about the murder in her home. The Earps returned to their rooms upstairs at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, where they had lived in close company and used as their temporary headquarters since the first attack on Virgil in December. Wyatt and Warren Earp, J.H. Holliday, Texas Jack, "Turkey Creek" Johnson, and Sherman McMaster were now wanted men due to

3198-451: The door of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, preparing to arrest the Earp party. They found the Earps exiting the lobby of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, heavily armed, on their way to pick up their horses from Montgomery's Stable. Behan told Deputy U.S. Marshal Earp, "Wyatt, I want to see you." Without stopping, Wyatt replied, "You might see me once too often." Behan or his posse made no attempt to stop the Earp party. They left Tombstone that night and during

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3276-520: The family and pursue the suspects, paying them $ 5 a day. McMaster and Johnson were known as tough men who knew how to use their guns. McMaster had seen service with the Texas Rangers in 1878–1879 when his unit captured and held Curly Bill Brocius prisoner for five months. In Tombstone, McMaster had also been accused of stealing U.S. Army mules and robbing a stage with outlaw Charles "Pony" Diehl . Fluent in Spanish, McMaster used his inside knowledge of

3354-577: The federal bureaucracy would provide funds, Dake borrowed $ 3,000 from Wells Fargo & Co. , promising that the Department of Justice would repay it. He deposited money, variously reported as either $ 300 or $ 3000, to an account in the Hudson & Company Bank, minus $ 15, for use "to arrest all parties committing crimes against the United States." The following day John Thacker from Wells Fargo went with Wyatt to

3432-480: The first men we met on the platform there were Stilwell and his friends, armed to the teeth", Virgil later told the San Francisco Examiner . "They fell back into the crowd as soon as they saw I had an escort, and the boys took me to the hotel to supper." Watched over by the well-armed Wyatt and his posse, Virgil and Allie had dinner in Tucson at Porter's Hotel. Marshal Evans saw Holliday deposit two shotguns at

3510-403: The five men. The heavily armed Earp lawmen passed through the door of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, on their way to pick up their horses from Montgomery's stable. Behan told Deputy U.S. Marshal Earp, "Wyatt, I want to see you." Without stopping, Wyatt replied, "You might see me once too often." Behan or his posse made no attempt to stop the Earp party. The Tombstone Epitaph reported, "The Sheriff made

3588-850: The house. On February 17, the Earp posse left Tombstone heavily armed and with a warrant for the arrest of "Pony" Diehl, who was suspected in a January 1882 stage robbery. Unsuccessful, they returned to town a few days later, hearing rumors that the Cowboys were plotting further revenge. On Saturday evening, March 18, 1882, Tombstone's Scheifflin Hall was host to Stolen Kisses , a play by William Horace Lingard and Company . Despite having received death threats earlier that day, Morgan, Doc Holliday, and Dan Tipton attended. Wyatt and Benjamin Goodrich cautioned against attending. Afterward, Doc went to his room and Morgan and Tipton headed for Hatch's Saloon and Billiard Parlor, which had become their unofficial headquarters after

3666-474: The inquest, two of Behan's deputy sheriffs arrested two more suspects for other reasons. Cochise County Deputy Sheriff William Bell brought Indian Charlie from Charleston and placed him under arrest in the Tombstone jail for shooting a man in Charleston. Separately, Cochise County Deputy Sheriff Frank Hereford arrested "John Doe" Freeze [ sic ]. They were all later released. When Wyatt Earp learned of

3744-493: The judge's ruling, he felt he could not rely on the court system for justice. Stilwell had previously been acquitted of two homicides and a stage robbery, and in Wyatt Earp's opinion, he and other Cowboys had gotten away with murder again. On Sunday, March 19, the day after Morgan's murder, Deputy U.S. Marshal Wyatt Earp, his brother James, and a group of friends prepared to accompany Virgil and his wife, along with Morgan's body, to

3822-472: The line of fire while Hatch dashed outside looking for the shooters. Morgan died within the hour. While Wyatt and James were traveling to Contention with Morgan's body, Coroner Dr. D.M. Mathew held an inquest into Morgan's death. During the Coroner's Inquest, Pete Spence 's wife, Marietta Duarte, implicated her husband and four other men in Morgan's murder. She testified that along with her husband, Frank Stilwell,

3900-401: The liver, abdomen, and stomach; another buckshot wound that fractured his left leg; and a rifle wound through the right leg. The coroner concluded that Stilwell had been shot by five different weapons. Either the gun shot under his arm or through the abdomen could have been the cause of death. The Tombstone Epitaph reported the next day that Stilwell had been shot six times. They reported that

3978-429: The local warrants, they followed the Earp posse and set out to arrest them. The large sheriff's posse came close to, but never engaged, the much smaller Earp posse, which received help from local businessmen and ranchers (and at one point, published a letter in a Tombstone newspaper taunting Behan and his men). The federal posse ultimately killed four men, starting with Stilwell and ending with Brocius. About April 15

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4056-684: The matter for Clanton and other Cowboys. At about 11:30 pm on December 28, 1881, just over two months after the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, three men ambushed Virgil Earp as he walked from Schieffelin Hall back to the Cosmopolitan Hotel, where the Earps had moved for mutual support and protection. He was hit in the back and upper left arm by about 20 buckshot pellets, shattering his humerus . Dr. George Goodfellow , who treated him, had to remove 5.5 inches (140 mm) of bone. Wyatt telegraphed U.S. Marshal Crawley Dake . He requested appointment as Deputy U.S. Marshal for eastern Pima County and authority to form

4134-419: The message to Behan long enough to allow the Earps and their associates to make ready to leave town Tuesday evening. The Earps sent instructions to Montgomery's stable to get their horses saddled. Early in the evening Cochise County Sheriff Behan received the delayed telegram. He gathered his deputies and Tombstone City Marshal Dave Neagle . The men met at the door of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, preparing to arrest

4212-593: The next week killed three more Cowboys they believed responsible for attacking their brothers in a vendetta across Cochise County. The men were never tried or convicted. Following the vendetta ride, Warren left Arizona for a time. He returned in 1891, and worked as a mail stage driver on the route between Willcox and Fort Grant . He may have worked briefly as a range detective for rancher Henry Hooker in Cochise County, Arizona. Modern depictions of Warren Earp portray him as being slightly naive and youthful. After

4290-477: The outlaw gang for the death of Wyatt's brother, Morgan Earp and the shooting of his other brother Virgil Earp , all following the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral . Among the other participants in the Vendetta were Wyatt and his younger brother Warren Earp , Doc Holliday , "Turkey Creek" Jack Johnson , and Texas Jack Vermillion . In a letter written to his father, Will McLaury wrote that McMaster had been killed by

4368-425: The outstanding warrants. Tucson, where the Earps had killed Stilwell, was in the jurisdiction of Pima County Sheriff Bob Paul , a friend of the Earps. He and District Attorney Alex Campbell sent a telegram to Behan in Tombstone asking him to arrest the Earps. The telegraph office manager was a friend to the Earps and showed the message to Wyatt before it was delivered to Behan. The operator agreed to delay delivering

4446-481: The rail head in Benson. From there James would accompany them to the family home in Colton, California . Morgan's wife and parents waited to bury him. Wyatt borrowed a 10 gauge double barreled Spencer shotgun from Fred Dodge. On Monday, Wyatt received information that Frank Stilwell, Ike Clanton , Hank Swilling, and another cowboy were watching the passenger trains in Tucson intending to kill Virgil Earp. He thought getting

4524-516: The railroad station office. After the Earp group finished dinner at Porter's Hotel they returned to the train. Holliday asked someone to get his shotguns. Wyatt escorted Virgil and Allie aboard the train. A passenger told Virgil he saw men lying on a flatcar near the engine. Wyatt saw them too and slipped between the tracks, looking for the men. As the train pulled away from the Tucson station at about 7:15 p.m., six or seven shots were heard. Witnesses gave differing accounts, but Frank Stilwell's body

4602-443: The request of his friend Lou Rickabaugh, also a friend of the Earps. Smith and Tipton were gamblers who supplemented their income with mining ventures. John "Texas Jack" Vermillion, a Virginian, joined the vendetta ride after Frank Stilwell was killed, and was never indicted for Stilwell's murder, but he was with the Earps when Florentino "Indian Charlie" Cruz was killed. Although closer to friend and fellow Southerner Doc Holliday than

4680-452: The round of buckshot in the torso had struck him at such close range that six buckshot left holes within a radius of 3 inches (76 mm), leaving powder burns on his coat. Many years later, Wyatt told his biographer Flood that he and his party had seen Clanton and Stilwell on the tracks with weapons, and he had shot Stilwell. The federal deputies looked hard for another man, whom Wyatt identified as Ike Clanton, but he got away. Ike claimed in

4758-720: The same woman, possibly a local prostitute. However, the Tombstone Epitaph says that the incident began out of Earp's constant bullying of Boyett. Later that night, the two men, both drunk, began arguing. Bystanders said they "never heard any man take such abuse." Warren Earp is alleged to have said "Boyett, get your gun and we ' ll settle this right here. I ' ve got mine, go and get yours". Boyett left and returned shortly thereafter with two .45 caliber Colt handguns. Boyett called out for Earp, who walked in from another doorway. Immediately upon seeing Earp, Boyett fired two rounds, but both missed. Earp stepped calmly outside of

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4836-499: The scene. Like the gunfight three months earlier, Morgan's murder was national news. The Angeles Herald reported: Tombstone, A. T., March 23. The coroner's jury find that Morgan Earp came to his death at the hands of Frank Stillwell, (who was killed next day in Tucson), Pete Spence, one Freis, and two half-breed Indians. Pete Spence's wife exposes the plot. A Sheriffs posse, consisting of 20 men, mostly cow-boys, left this morning for

4914-455: The shooting she and her mother heard the shots, and a few minutes later Stilwell and "Indian Charley" came into her home, followed shortly by Spence, Bode and the other Indian. Marietta Duarte recalled that the men were excited, and the next morning her husband threatened her with violence if she told what she knew. "Spence didn't tell me so, but I know he killed Morgan Earp", she said. Additional witnesses said they saw Frank Stilwell running from

4992-452: The shooting, Ike said he "would have to go back and do the job over." However, Charleston constable George McKelvey , saloon owner J. B. Ayers, and five others testified that Ike Clanton had been in Charleston and could not have taken part in the shooting. The charges were dismissed for lack of evidence. Wyatt said later that Judge Stilwell told him, "Wyatt, you'll never clean up this crowd this way; next time you'd better leave your prisoners in

5070-459: The shootout in Tombstone, he gained a reputation as a bully, playing off the reputation of his older brothers. His brother Virgil feared that Warren's temper would get him killed. Virgil was reunited in 1898 with his first wife Ellen and daughter Nellie who had been told he had been killed in the Civil War. They visited twice, and Nellie told The Oregonian that during their visit, "My father said then, ' If Warren ever dies he will be shot. He

5148-456: The still invalid Virgil through to Tucson safely would require extra help. Wyatt, accompanied by Warren Earp , Doc Holliday , "Turkey Creek" Jack Johnson , and Sherman McMaster , guarded Virgil and Allie. In Contention City they stabled their horses and picked up an extra wagon. They rode in the wagon to the rail head in Benson, where they caught the next train to Tucson. They were all heavily armed with shotguns or rifles, except Virgil who had

5226-426: The time of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral on October 26, 1881. On December 28, 1881, the Cowboys ambushed Virgil Earp, maiming him. Warren returned to Tombstone and was deputized by Wyatt. On March 18, 1882, Morgan Earp was murdered while playing billiards. On March 20, 1882, he joined a posse guarding Virgil and Allie as they were transported to Tucson to catch a train for California. At the station, Frank Stilwell

5304-513: The train that he thought were Clanton and Stilwell. He and several men chased down and killed Stilwell, but lost the other. After Stilwell's body was found the next morning, the Tucson Justice of the Peace issued arrest warrants for the five lawmen suspected of the extra-judicial murder. When the men returned to Tombstone, Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan had received a telegram notifying him of

5382-498: The warrant was not for armed robbery as they thought, but for "assault with intent to commit murder, the specific offense being the waylaying and shooting of Virgil Earp some weeks ago." On February 2, the Clantons were tried before Judge Stilwell. Ike's hat had been found at the scene and McMaster testified that he had heard Ike talk about the shooting in Charleston later that evening. He said that when Ike learned that Virgil had survived

5460-460: Was a prisoner under McMaster's Ranger division. In 1878 Curly Bill escaped from prison, allegedly helped by McMaster. Soon after, along with Brocius, Johnny Barnes, and Pony Diehl , McMaster moved to Arkansas. McMaster worked for the Texas Rangers in 1878, the same year that he first met Brocius. By most accounts he was a good lawman and was respected for his talents with a gun. In July 1880 he

5538-430: Was found on the morning of March 21 about 100 yards (91 m) from the Porter Hotel alongside the tracks riddled with two buckshot and three gunshot wounds. George Hand, who saw the body, said Stilwell was "the worst shot up man I ever saw." Coroner Dr. Dexter Lyford found a single bullet wound through Stilwell's body under his armpits; a wound from a rifle through the upper left arm; a buckshot wound that passed through

5616-418: Was joined by 30 more riders from Tombstone. They found Ben Maynard, a known Cowboy associate, outside Charleston and arrested him. With Maynard in front, the posse took over the small town and went door-to-door looking for the Clantons and Diehl. Ringo was rearrested in Charleston, but not before he warned the Clantons and Diehl, who left town. The next day the posse scouted the countryside, eventually stopping at

5694-607: Was killed in an argument in 1900. Warren was born in Pella, Iowa . Little is known about his early life. Like Wyatt and Morgan, he was too young to take part in the American Civil War , as his older brothers James, Virgil, and Newton did. He was eighteen years younger than Newton. He joined his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona in 1880, and worked occasionally as a deputy for Virgil collecting taxes and for periodic guard duty. Wyatt landed

5772-591: Was spotted lying in wait for Virgil and was killed. On Friday the Tucson Grand Jury returned indictments naming Warren, Wyatt, Doc Holliday , "Turkey Creek" Jack Johnson , and Sherman McMaster . Pima County Justice of the Peace Charles Meyer issued warrants for the arrest of all five men. After receiving notice of the warrants, Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan gathered his deputies and Tombstone City Marshal Dave Neagle . Behan and his men met at

5850-516: Was suspected of stealing U.S. Army mules and two horses from a camp near Tombstone. He was also a suspect in a stagecoach robbery near Globe, Arizona . On February 24, 1881, two men robbed the stage traveling between Globe and Florence . When they found that the Wells, Fargo & Co. strongbox was empty, they stole the U.S. mail. Pony Diehl (aka Charles Ray) and McMaster were suspects. In Tombstone, City Marshal Virgil Earp knew that McMaster

5928-517: Was the site of a head-on train crash in 1903 at the current location of the Desert Sky Middle School in Tucson.) At the Papago stop they flagged down the night-freight train back to the terminal in Benson. Once in Benson they hired a wagon back to Contention where they picked up their stabled horses. They rode into Tombstone around 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, March 21. Once in Tombstone they learned of Marietta Duarte's testimony during

6006-403: Was the youngest of Earp brothers, Wyatt , Morgan , Virgil , James , and Newton Earp . Although he was not present during the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral , after Virgil was maimed in an ambush, Warren joined Wyatt and was in town when Morgan was assassinated. He also helped Wyatt in the hunt for the outlaws they believed responsible. Later in life, Warren developed a reputation as a bully and

6084-436: Was wanted for the robbery, but according to The Tombstone Epitaph Virgil had received instructions from Pima County Sheriff Bob Paul to wait to arrest McMaster until Diehl was in custody. On September 10, 1881, Tombstone City Marshal Virgil Earp attempted to arrest McMaster, who resisted. McMaster fired several shots at Virgil before escaping. Some accounts have since indicated he was possibly working undercover for

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