BILLY THE KID Ep. 2 | "Crooks, Killers and Thieves"

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime, History

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Lincoln County in southeastern New Mexico Territory grows into a hotbed of corruption and murder. Men named Murphy, Dolan and Brady align themselves against others called Tunstall, McSween and Chisum. An outlaw gang kills and steals at will, and it’s about to add a new man to its roster. The forces of the Lincoln County War arrange themselves before the arrival of William H. Bonney. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The night was cold and the moon was nearly full. It covered the lone street in the town
0:18.6	of Lincoln with a pale light. It was a good night to stay warm in the saloons. And as
0:24.5	it turned out, it was a good night for murder. Five brothers and some of their friends and relatives
0:30.7	had journeyed from Texas to southeastern New Mexico a few months earlier. The brothers had
0:36.4	taken part in the killing of four Texas state policemen in Lampassas and then fled the state.
0:42.0	Now, a group of men that included at least one of the brothers rode into Lincoln to get drunk in
0:48.5	the saloons and brothels. By midnight, they were out of control. They shot up businesses and
0:55.7	terrified other rebels. The town constable and four officers confronted the drunken men in the street.
1:03.9	One of the rowdies shot the constable and killed him on the spot. The murder ignited a gun battle.
1:10.5	Seven or eight men fired at each other at the same time. The lawman killed the man who had shot
1:18.1	the constable, but the other two men escaped. The officers tracked them down and riddled them with
1:26.1	bullets, shooting one of them more than a dozen times. One of the dead men was one of the brothers who
1:32.6	fled Texas. The officers had been mostly Hispanic and Hispanics in Lincoln County were feuding with
1:39.7	the dominant force in the area. The corrupt store owned by white Irishmen named Murphy and Dolan.
1:46.9	The murders on that night escalated the racial tension into something close to a race war.
1:53.2	Three weeks after the shootout in Lincoln, the brothers from Texas retaliated.
1:58.3	They stormed a Hispanic wedding celebration and began firing into the crowd.
2:03.8	They may have been looking for a young man named Juan Patron, whom they blamed for the murder of
2:09.9	their brother. Patron wasn't there, but the brothers ended up killing his father and several other
2:16.2	bystanders. For the next year and a half, the two sides left dead bodies all over Lincoln County.
2:23.9	Estimates range as low as 13 killed and as high as 75.
2:28.5	The bloodshed finally subsided when the brothers and their followers drifted back to Texas.
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