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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

(Siringo was born on the Matagorda Peninsula of Texas on Feb. 7, 1855. His occupation at death was listed as an author, the celebrated “Cowboy Detective,” and he was divorced. He had ‘very severe chronic bronchitis of many years that gradually wore him out,' possibly contracted in New Mexico.)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

#ThisDayIn 1928 (Oct. 18): Charles Angelo Siringo, age 73 years, 8 months and 11 days, died at about 10 p.m., at his home at 999 Beverly Way in Altadena, California. Reported by William Leroy Siringo, also of 999 Beverly Way, he had lived 2 months at this residence, and 6 years total in California.

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

(“We will not give the names of the parties interested in this delightful midnight séance, but hope in the future they will be more circumspect and not give our amateur a chance to show his journalistic ability in a way that would not be creditable to them.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

(Also: “At night our police reporter saw four persons enter a saloon on the West Side, after which they locked the door and turned down the lights. Now there would have been nothing strange in this if two of the individuals had not been females who call themselves respectable.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

(“He had been confined to his bed by sickness a number of days previous to the convention and at the time was not well enough to take any really active part in it.” After the interview, Judge Lopez declined the nomination for Probate Judge of San Miguel County.)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

(“In accepting the temporary chairmanship, he did so almost on the spur of the moment and did not attempt to control the convention so as to secure nominations. He expressed great chagrin that his intentions and purposes had been so entirely misinterpreted.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

(“He desired not to take any part in the convention and he refused several offers of the temporary chairmanship and had only accepted it after repeated solicitation of his friends on the day of the convention. He had been asked before to make a ticket but had absolutely refused to do it.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

(“The quill-driver in course of conversation remarked that there was considerable criticism of the Republican ticket, and that he had been charged in the evening paper with making the ticket. Judge Lopez indignantly denied that he was in any way responsible for it. Such a charge was utterly false.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

ThisDayIn 1882 (Oct. 18): The Las Vegas (NM) Gazette reported: “A reporter called on Judge Lorenzo Lopez and found him still confined to his bed by sickness.”

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

#ThisDayIn 1880 (Oct. 18): A stagecoach carrying mail was robbed by the Rustlers outside of Fort Sumner. They found inside the mail packet the letter sent by Special Agent Azariah Wild to James Brooks back in Washington DC, naming James DeVours and Edgar Walz as informants against them.

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

#ThisDayIn 1879 (Oct. 18): Wyatt Earp arrived at East Las Vegas and there he visited Doc Holliday’s Saloon on Centre Street. Earp told Holliday about a new precious metals discovery in Arizona and suggested that he meet him in Prescott. However, Earp heads first to Tombstone instead.

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

(A really good telling of the story of the killing of Robert Casey, regarded as the “first victim of the Lincoln County War,” was posted by “The Pals of Billy the Kid Historical Society.” palsofbillythekidhistoricalsociety.com/robert-casey/ )

The Irish Enigma: Robert Casey's Odyssey in the Wild West - Pals of Billy the Kid

The life and times of Robert Casey of Lincoln, New Mexico

palsofbillythekidhistoricalsociety.com

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

(After the conviction, Wilson attempted to escape overnight from the Lincoln County Jail, but the guard caught him in the attempt and shot him. Though the wound was serious, the convicted murderer would survive until the day of his hanging.)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

(The Dolan position was that Casey would often stiff laborers their pay and run them off with a shotgun, but more likely, Wilson was acting as a paid assassin for Dolan, who had been trying to take complete control of Lincoln - Casey and Juan Patron were leaders resisting John Dolan’s gambit.)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

#ThisDayIn 1875 (Oct. 18): William Wilson, defended in court by pro-Santa Fe Ring and Dolan lawyer William Rynerson, was sentenced to hang for the murder of Robert Casey. Wilson tried to sell the court on the idea that he took Casey’s life because he refused to pay him $8 for work he had done.

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

(The remaining force fled some 15 miles to a winter encampment of some 300-400 tribesmen. Suffering one casualty and five injuries, Capt. Wilson took his men to Fort Bliss, near El Paso for medical help and provisions. They were later ordered to return north to Fort Union, near Las Vegas, NM.)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

#ThisDayIn 1867 (Oct. 18): An advance party of Capt. Francis H. Wilson’s expedition encountered some 40 Mescalero Apache on the far side of the Sacramento Mountains, and at least six Apache were killed in the fighting.

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

(“Hearing of the death of their leader they set fire to the camp and garrison equipage, killed his dog and horse, and made tracks for a colder climate.” Col. Kit Carson was appalled by the massacre of the Apache under Capt. Graydon when he learned about it.)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

(“The next morning Capt. Graydon started ahead of his command with 40 men with his best horses to try and give Don Cadette a visit, but could not make out his residence, but in his rounds he found where the remainder of the Manuelito Party had been encamped.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

(“Capt. Graydon immediately mounted his men on the horses captured and started for the Pattos to join his command, learning that Cadette would make an attack on Capt. Thompson, arriving at the Pattos a little after dark, having traveled this day a distance of 65 miles besides fighting the Indians.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

(“Capt. Graydon gave this party a warm reception killing three of their number, charging them on horse, making a total of Indians killed 14.” Other reports estimate the total killed to be 19, with three old men and one woman being also among the dead.)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

(“Following the families up the hill they captured two children, burning their packs, arms, saddles, etc. It seems evident that they had made up a plot to murder the Captain and his party as another party of mounted Indians further down the hill rushed in the direction of the horses.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

(“His men also in the meantime discharged their rifles and pulled their six-shooters and followed up the attack killing 11 on the ground and wounding nearly all the remainder of the party, losing only on his side one horse wounded, capturing 15 animals, bridles , saddles, etc.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

(“As Capt. Graydon is not one of those to be bluffed he picked up his shotgun and ordered his men to fire, putting the contents of one barrel into Manuelito’s head, and the other into another caballero who was by his side.”)

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Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social · 3h

“Capt. Graydon told the Indians not to be loco, that the troops did not want to harm the Indians and that he only had a little whiskey in his canteen that he carried in case of sickness. Here Manuelita pulled a six-shooter and said that if he did not give him whiskey he would fight for it.”)

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