In late June 1882, the city council of Caldwell, then the wildest cowtown in Kansas, appointed a former companion of Billy the Kid as its assistant marshal. Six months later the citizens of Caldwell proudly presented a Winchester rifle to their new marshal, Henry Newton Brown, on New Year's Day. Just one year later, Brown used it to rob the Medicine Lodge bank.
Just four years earlier he had ridden with the notorious Billy the Kid, stolen horses, and fled from New Mexico to avoid murder charges. By 1880, though, Brown had a change of heart and took on the job of deputy sheriff in Oldham County, Texas.
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Brown was a Regulator with Billy the Kid on the Tunstall/McSween side of Lincoln County War and was present at the ambush of Sheriff Brady. He was appointed deputy constable after Tunstalls murder and after the war traveled to Texas where he was made deputy sheriff of Oldham County, and deputy constable of Tascosa. He eventually moved again to Caldwell, Kansas where he was made marshal. But he didnt stay on the right side of the law and was shot by a lynch mob after he and several others robbed a bank and killed the bank president and cashier.
-bio courtesy of Billy the Kid Outlaw Gang's website
Just four years earlier he had ridden with the notorious Billy the Kid, stolen horses, and fled from New Mexico to avoid murder charges. By 1880, though, Brown had a change of heart and took on the job of deputy sheriff in Oldham County, Texas.
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Brown was a Regulator with Billy the Kid on the Tunstall/McSween side of Lincoln County War and was present at the ambush of Sheriff Brady. He was appointed deputy constable after Tunstalls murder and after the war traveled to Texas where he was made deputy sheriff of Oldham County, and deputy constable of Tascosa. He eventually moved again to Caldwell, Kansas where he was made marshal. But he didnt stay on the right side of the law and was shot by a lynch mob after he and several others robbed a bank and killed the bank president and cashier.
-bio courtesy of Billy the Kid Outlaw Gang's website
In late June 1882, the city council of Caldwell, then the wildest cowtown in Kansas, appointed a former companion of Billy the Kid as its assistant marshal. Six months later the citizens of Caldwell proudly presented a Winchester rifle to their new marshal, Henry Newton Brown, on New Year's Day. Just one year later, Brown used it to rob the Medicine Lodge bank.
Just four years earlier he had ridden with the notorious Billy the Kid, stolen horses, and fled from New Mexico to avoid murder charges. By 1880, though, Brown had a change of heart and took on the job of deputy sheriff in Oldham County, Texas.
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Brown was a Regulator with Billy the Kid on the Tunstall/McSween side of Lincoln County War and was present at the ambush of Sheriff Brady. He was appointed deputy constable after Tunstalls murder and after the war traveled to Texas where he was made deputy sheriff of Oldham County, and deputy constable of Tascosa. He eventually moved again to Caldwell, Kansas where he was made marshal. But he didnt stay on the right side of the law and was shot by a lynch mob after he and several others robbed a bank and killed the bank president and cashier.
-bio courtesy of Billy the Kid Outlaw Gang's website
Just four years earlier he had ridden with the notorious Billy the Kid, stolen horses, and fled from New Mexico to avoid murder charges. By 1880, though, Brown had a change of heart and took on the job of deputy sheriff in Oldham County, Texas.
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Brown was a Regulator with Billy the Kid on the Tunstall/McSween side of Lincoln County War and was present at the ambush of Sheriff Brady. He was appointed deputy constable after Tunstalls murder and after the war traveled to Texas where he was made deputy sheriff of Oldham County, and deputy constable of Tascosa. He eventually moved again to Caldwell, Kansas where he was made marshal. But he didnt stay on the right side of the law and was shot by a lynch mob after he and several others robbed a bank and killed the bank president and cashier.
-bio courtesy of Billy the Kid Outlaw Gang's website
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