Most historians would say that he didnt, but a legend of the Old West like Billy the Kid doesnt go down easy. on a computer and the results were negative, but one can easily see for William Brady were in attendance. Also how would Garrett know that Also walking down the street was a five year old boy and his mother. today get away with it, why not Garrett? Pat Garrett and his deputies he retreated in a Mexicans house. However, Selman did not fight for either side and didnt even arrive in Lincoln until after the final battle of the war. No, there has been no DNA study of either Billy the Kid's body or the body of Brushy Bill Roberts. So, here is the new Brushy Bill Roberts section of my website. According to most sources, theinfamous outlaw met his end at the tender age of 21 in the summer of 1881, when he was gunned down by Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. When a historians personal agenda and biasness is pushed, or something from a subjective topic is declared as ridiculous, the historian loses their objectivity. Once again, the real Billy the Kid would have known that. Extra Notes: This case first aired on the March 1, 1989 episode. those that believe he is, so I'm going to be blunt and shoot from the hip. In the late year of 1949 William Morrison of a law firm heard that Billy the Kid was not killed in Fort Sumner So why didn't Morrison and Brushy mention the While Morrison and Hines talked, Hines admitted that he was Jessie Evans, who, after he had been released from prison in Texas in 1882, had by all accounts disappeared. However, there exists no contemporary evidence that the real Billy the Kid ever left the care of Catherine McCarty, especially for so long a time period. on July 14, 1881 by Pat Garrett, but was alive and well, living in Hico, Texas under the alias of Besides Garrett been shot by Pat Garrett in 1881 and that would have made him two years reading the above information and you still believe Brushy Bill Roberts was bottom of this page). Mabry, to which Brushy couldn't respond. Look above at the photosBrushy doesn't look anything at all like Billy the He meant to say he was not a. either, he wrote like a child, or An attempt to separate myth from fact. HA! Most were not taken seriously and just a few of them managed to convince anyone else that they were Billy the Kid. I nowhasnt anyone else had their name spelled incorrectly? He also stated that any differences in the picture of Brushy and Billy the Kid is that Billy the Kid's face was altered when getting his photo was being touched up. Author Daniel A. Edwards approaches the story of Brushy Bill Roberts with a fresh eyes approach to the subject. Kid. So now The study compared the Dedrick-Upham tintype, the only authenticated image of Billy the Kid with a photograph of William Henry Roberts taken when Roberts was in his late eighties. only one-quarter. When his sons calmed him down, Anthony said that Brushy was the Kid. Not only were Brushy and Billy the Kid's photos compared and analyzed Here's a brief summarization of Brushy Bill Roberts: Bill Roberts from Lucas Speers Billy the Kid Web Site. Also during Ollie P. Bill Roberts, also known as Brushy Bill. Brushy Bill had each and every scar Billy was said to have (and more). I Brushy Bill Roberts didn't have any immediate family that was living at the time he came forward as Billy the Kid other than his wife, Melinda Allison Roberts, and she believed he was Billy the Kid. Although this is technically not evidence against Brushys own claim, it does cast a serious shadow of doubt on his own credibility. couldn't depend on the entire population of Fort Sumner to go along with And, finally, to end on the same note that C. L. Sonnichsen did in Alias Billy the Kid, if Brushy Bill was not Billy the Kid, who was he? There is more evidence against it than supporting it. admitted that Brushy got some facts wrong, but he believed Roberts was On Dec. 27, 1950, Brushy left his bed and told his wife he was feeling better. Tri- Star-Boze Productions, Inc. 1996. how many girlfriends he had, did he enjoy stealing livestock, etc.). THEN he got on his horse and rode off. Upon entering the conference room, they were shocked at what they saw. After the On November 29, 1950 Morrison arranged a Was Brushy Bill Roberts Billy the Kid? killing of Sheriff Brady, Brushy said that Fred Waite and he jumped over the Brushy acquiesced and in June 1949, Morrison visited the old man at his small shack in Hamilton, Texas. cocky as ever, and lastly: He knew the history of Billy the Kid The Kid also would have It's disappointing for me to when Garrett was passing Billy Barlows body off as the Kidright? Brushy also demonstrated the ability to, in a kind of double-jointed move, make his hands smaller than his wrists, which the real Billy was known to do in order to slide handcuffs off. Brushy Bill Roberts AKA Billy The Kid: Physical Similarities & Facial Recognition Study Brett Hall 2.81K subscribers Subscribe 1.2K Share Save 79K views 1 year ago In This video, I. The missing seven percent can be explained due to age and dental work, so said Dr. Bovik and Dr. Acton. Several of the things Brushy told Morrison, though at first glance may have seemed trivial, actually were very important, as few people, historians included, knew of them. Did thefamed gunslinger Billy the Kidfake his owndeath? Links: Unsolved Mysteries Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. When Morrison first met Brushy, he was going by the name of Oliver L. Roberts. The first three all signed legal affidavits attesting to the fact that Brushy Bill and Billy the Kid were one and the same and the Jones brothers, although they did not sign affidavits (claiming they didnt want to get involved in the proceedings) also stated their agreement with this. Jameson and Fred Bean, who researched the Brushy Bill Roberts claim, they Kid's death, she was one of the first to find him lying on the floor of Pete make it drink. In closing, (just as Oscar Garrett had said) I do not wish In reality, the Kid gunned down both his guards, used a pick axe to free Brady held the Kid and Fred Waite captive, so how could the Kid swear Brushy Bill Roberts (August 26, 1879 [1] - December 27, 1950; claimed date of birth December 31, 1859) also known as William Henry Roberts, [2] Ollie Partridge William Roberts, Ollie N. Roberts, or Ollie L. Roberts, was an American man who attracted attention in the late 1940s and the 1950s by claiming to be Western outlaw William H. Bonney, also No matter Fearing that Brushy's father might try to take him back, she covered her tracks and gave the name Henry McCarty to Brushy as an alias. Several of the things he knew were known to only a few people at the time, including historians. bargain he made with the governor to the news press. to question Roberts he replied, I do not wish to dignify this claim with Kid biographer and my goal is to educate people that Billy the Kid was The results of the University of Texas photo-comparison study, with other evidence,were presented to Andre McNeil, chancery judge of Arkansas' Twelfth Judicial District, and noted Arkansas attorney Helen Rice Grinder. This photo of Brushy Bill is also alleged to have been made when he was a teenager, supposedly within the same time frame as the above photo, though his age certainly seems more advanced here. Why did he change his middle initial from P. to L.? didn't write this web page to argue or pick a fight with supporters, I know So the Story starts that in 1948 A man named Joe Hines, came up to a Lawyer named William V Morrison to claim the property of Outlaw Jesse Evans" recently deceased brother. Hines was claiming that the land of his recently deceased brother now belonged entirely to him, since he was the only surviving heir. Moments later he heard shots In reality, at the time of Tunstall's funeral Sheriff Brushy Bill Roberts. for a farewell fling, but it wasnt with an Indian girl it was with Paulita By looking at Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. In recent times, much younger distant members of Oliver P. Roberts have come forward to claim that Brushy Bill Roberts, who they either did not know personally or that they had only known remotely was not Billy the Kid. recommend to visitors who wish to learn more, to click on the links at the No one is claiming that Oliver P. Roberts was Billy the Kid. didnt really kill the real Billy the Kid, but allowed him to escape? Mary Roberts died in 1862 while James was off fighting with Quantrill in the Civil War. However, the men asking the questions seemed to treat the affair as something as a joke, and asked primarily only meaningless questions (i.e. not Lutcida, so therefore this Oliver P. Roberts is not Brushy. 33 of 38 34 of 38 A former New Mexico lawman is seeking permission to exhume the body of ``Brushy Bill'' Roberts, a Billy the Kid claimant who died in 1950. All the while, the pair were careful to make sure that Mrs. Roberts was kept in the dark over the entire proceedings, as Brushy didnt want her to learn his true identity and be disgusted with him for his reputation. this video demonstrates the undeniable sameness between four 'billy the kid' photos and four pictures of william henry 'brushy bill' roberts. up in Walter Noble Burns bestseller "The Saga of Billy the Kid" in Brett Hall 2.71K subscribers Subscribe 53K views 1 year ago Episode 3 Of My Real Billy the Kid. left-handed and illiterate, but like Billy the Kid, he was literate and Hines went on to say that besides himself and Billy, there was only one other surviving veteran of the Lincoln County War, namely Jim McDaniels, a member of the Jessie Evans Gang. Lincoln and Fort Sumner, including Lobato (who supposedly helped one wannabe Pat Garrett's account of what happen on July 14, 1881 is sketchy, but is some simple proof that Brushy Bill Roberts was NOT Billy the Kid. Kid was very bitter and angry towards the sheriff, not only for the Garrett was in the vicinity and not wanting to be seen he sent his partner Billy After some talking he admitted that he had been in hiding and was indeed the outlaw Jesse Evans. French that accompanied Billy to Brady's body so the Kid could reclaim his after passing another corpse off as the Kid, he wasn't going to turn up Brushy supporters that gullible and blind to the truth? In the meeting with current Governor of New Mexico, Thomas J. Mabry, Roberts was badly overwhelmed by the press and media and had a small stroke, which affected his ability to prove he was really Billy the Kid. slip out of Fort Sumner), discredited all such claims and firmly stated that Of course this story of Author: Asagan CC BY-SA 3.0. Some were too ridiculous to take notice and some convinced a few people, but were forgotten through the passage of time. Reply. Real Name: Oliver Pleasant Roberts, posthumously renamed William Henry Roberts Maxwells bedroom and she also helped prepare his body for burial. claim is built purely on conspiracy theories and second and third hand accounts. old. To support Pittmans sources, Brushy Roberts a.k.a Oliver P. Roberts, On the one hand, he sure did know quite a bit about the life of "the Kid", including many things that historians of his time did not know and that were only proven to be true many years later. Billy the Kid fever had broken out 25 years In Brushy's possessions, he had a very old scarf that he claimed to have gotten from Deluvina Maxwell after he was captured at Stinking Springs and brought to Fort Sumner. He fell to the ground and died instantly. Shortly thereafter, Gov. He began by studying photos of Brushy Bill Roberts and conducting a facial comparison between the two, which is provided in his book. the family bible as August 26, 1879. rifle and Alex McSweens arrest warrant. from custody. unveiled that the Kid was actually ambidextrous, so now it's said So Brushy was Lastly, after intensive research nothing at all Mabry. For Hines told Morrison of his experiences in the Lincoln County Wars with 19th-century American frontier outlaw and gunman, Billy the Kid who was allegedly killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett on July 14, 1881, but he stunned Morrison by claiming that the Kid was still alive and living near Hamilton, Texas under the name Ollie L. "Brushy Bill" Roberts. When Brushy told of his days as Billy the Kid from 1877 to 1881, Morrison determined that Brushy knew way too much about the history of the Kid and the Lincoln County War to have read all about it. The Kid was reckless but he wasn't stupid! Brushy Bill, was different. One day in the 1940s, Brushy was walking down a street in Hico. Kid. Kid would not have been so foolish as supposedly received, would have immobilized him for days. Although I prefer not to give any attention to this controversial topic, I'm forced to discuss Brushy Bill Roberts who keeps the late 1920s. At this request, Brushy took off his clothes, exposing twenty-six bullet and knife scars on his body, several matching known locations of wounds Billy the Kid allegedly had. This research is ground breaking and adds significantly more light to the subject of Brushy Bill Roberts. After However, the life of the man known as Brushy Bill Roberts is documented by census, marriage, divorce and WWI registration records from his birth in Sebastian County, Arkansas in 1879, where he was born to parents, Henry Oliver Roberts and Sarah Elizabeth Ferguson, until his death in Hico, Hamilton County, Texas in December 1950. Here's another claim that flip flops: due to the reverse image of the Kid's authentic photo, And if words werent enough, the old man hadall the scars that the real Billy the Kid reportedly had. He laughed in the face of Hines had confessed his real name was Jessie Evans, who had vanished from public view after getting released from a Texas prison in 1882. he must be Billy the Kid. time. As he walked down the street, Brushy suffered a sudden heart attack. When he proclaimed to Hines that the Kid had met his death at the hands of Sheriff Pat Garrett in the house of one of his relatives, he was shocked to have Hines reply that the Kid was not killed by Garrett, or by anyone else for that matter and was still living. Regardless, when Brushy came out as Billy the Kid in 1950, no close family members came forward to contradict his claim. Aboutfour weeks later, Brushy Billsuffered a heart attackwhile walking to the post office and died on December 27, 1950. Case:Unknown Identity identical names -I dont thinks so. they'll never change their opinion, the only reason I even wrote this page was for those who are undecided and just stated that Brushy was almost entirely illiterate and had terrible chicken This isnt a Hollywood Western where men walk around with half their ", Copyright 2015-2017 Creative Texts Publishers, LLC, , , , Copyright 2014-2021 Creative Texts Publishers, LLC. President Ulysses S. Grant installed Civil War General Lew Wallace to clean up Lincoln following a report by special agent Frank W. Angel. Also, it would have been insanely foolish for Brushy to claim he was Billy, who still technically had a sentence of death hanging over him, and basically put himself at Mabrys mercy. meeting with Governor Thomas Mabry of New Mexico to request a pardon for his The 2014 book, "Billy the Kid: An Autobiography" by Daniel A. Edwards, tells the story of how former Hico resident William H. "Brushy Bill" Roberts came to have his picture taken. Still, Brushy asked Young to look up an old friend of his, Jimmy McDaniels (a former member of the Jessie Evans Gang and veteran of the Lincoln County War), who also lived in Round Rock. Finally, in 1987, Hico erected a Brushy Bill monument and opened the Billy the Kid Museum -- and Billy turned out to be good for Hico. Billy the Kid was killed that night in Fort Sumner because all the facts, In fact, both the Kid and Brushy were ambidextrous. Brushy was born in 1859, which would make him the same age as Billy the so. Read another story from us:Surplus of vintage weapons, including Tommy guns, on sale by the St. Louis Police Department. Signs in downtown Hico, Texas, proclaim the history of Billy the Kid who some local residents say was really "Brushy Bill" Roberts, a former Hico. Kid forever. McNeil and Grinder, both impartial observers and both experienced in handling and making determinations on evidence, stated that, based on the study, the case for William Henry Roberts and Billy the Kid's being the same man was "strong", "substantial" and "excellent." In 1882 a notorious outlaw by the name of Jesse Evans, a childhood friend of Billy the Kid and a participant in the Lincoln County War, walked out of jail after serving a sentence for killing a Texas ranger. Governor Lew Wallace to turn state evidence for a full pardon. it was thought for years that he was left-handed, The two men couldn't look So if Brushy were Photographs of Brushy Bill Roberts at age fourteen seemed to resemble the well known Dedrick-Upham tintype of Billy The Kid. Boze, Bell Im a Billy the Badly frightened, Brushy apparently suffered a small stroke, and when the questioning began, he failed miserably. He also reported that Pat Garrett had actually shot and killed another gunslinger named Billy Barlow, passing his body off as the Kid, allowing him to vanish for Mexico. the Kid swearing an oath to avenge Tunstall's murder at the funeral was made Prospector, also known as William Henry Roberts, Ollie Partridge William Roberts, Ollie N. Roberts, or Ollie L. Roberts, attracted . When the boy ran into the street and was almost hit by a car, the mother yelled out her son's name, Billy, loudly. how old and senile Billy the Kid would not have forgotten Pat Garretts name In conclusion, I would just like to state that I hope I have accomplished my goal of providing all the facts as they are and checking my own biasness. If Brushy Bill's story is true, then it would mean that Pat Garrett had shot a different person and had allowed Billy the Kid to escape. lines of defense is: Brushy wasn't illiterate -but he wasnt literate unjustified confinement and abuse he sustained, but causing him to miss Tunstalls funeral. However, although documentation of Billy the Kids life during this period is sparse, the documentation that. Billy the Kid always Hundreds of studies conducted by the FBI, CIA, Interpol and Scotland Yard employing these techniques have yielded significant level of statistical validity. That alone is more than enough proof that Brushy and Billy One day in 1945, Brushy was walking down a Hico street. For example, he knew that Colonel Dudley's soldiers that entered Lincoln on July 19, 1878 were black, he knew all the details of how the Kid had to pay his lawyer for his services in his trial, he knew that Billy the Kid wrote a letter to Gov. During his testimony, the Kid. Disappointed Morrison and Brushy return to Texas. The old man said he had nothing to lose and hoped that Morrison would help him gain the pardon that he had beenpromised some 70 years agoby New Mexicos Governor Thomas J. Mabry. Kid. face, but yet when you look at photos of Brushy, there's no scar at all. In the 1930 Van Zandt census Roberts turned someone out there that Brushy Bill Roberts was not Billy the Kid By the time they had completed their trip and returned to Brushys home in Hico, Texas (he had moved from Hamilton in the summer of 49), they had managed to meet with Severo Gallegos, Martile Able, Jose Montoya, and Bill and Sam Jones. Roberts grave site in Hamilton, Texas. He had previously shot two men without warning in his attempt to get Billy the Kid (Tom O'Folliard and Charlie Bowdrie). example, Brushy said James Dolan was one of those who gunned down John Tunstall accidentally kill the wrong man, he would have faced the music and the
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