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John Tunstall

Born
6 March 1853
Died
18 February 1878, aged about 25
Record
Wikidata Q2001011 · Wikipedia

Victim in Billy the Kid

English rancher and Bonney's employer; his killing by a posse began the Lincoln County War.

1878–1881 · Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory · Killed before trial

Convicted of killing a sheriff, Billy the Kid shot his way out of the Lincoln jail in 1881. Eleven weeks later Pat Garrett found him in a dark bedroom. Read the case.

Dated events

  1. John Tunstall is shot dead by members of a sheriff's posse, beginning the Lincoln County War.