Conflicts
After the Deputy Marshal for the town is killed by Curly Bill, one of the cowboys, Wyatt escorts Bill to a hearing, where he is let go on account of there being no witness’ to the murder. Virgil at this point in the film begins to develop a conciseness and volunteers to be the new Deputy Marshal. Morgan shortly joins up with him, while Wyatt still refuses to get involved. Ike Clanton and Doc Holliday (among others) are gambling, after Holliday wins, Ike accuses Holliday of cheating. The viewer is lead to believe that Holliday had not cheated. Ike is arrested by Virgil and thrown in jail to sober up. The morning after, Ike is escorted out of jail and Tom McLaury threatens Wyatt. Wyatt grabs McLaury’s pistol and knocks him over with
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In fact, evidence suggests that his interactions and associations could be the reason that led to the shooting at the O.K. Corral [2]. Essentially, Doc Holliday was friends with a William Leonard, who was later implicated in an attempted stagecoach robbery, that resulted in the death of two of three passengers. Prior to this event, Holliday had had a number of run ins with an individual by the name of Milt Joyce. A number of times Holliday was arrested and taken to court for assault. These charges were often dropped after Holliday paid court fees and the fines associated. Because of these confrontations and Holliday’s relationship with Leonard, Holliday was accused of being a part of the gang (who mostly consisted of members of the Cowboy gang) who attempted to rob the stagecoach. To clear Holliday’s name, the Earps (Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan) formed a posse that hunted down the other members of the gang. To find some of the men that could clear Holliday’s name, Wyatt made a deal with Ike Clanton (a known Cowboy member), Wyatt would give Ike the reward money for the outlaws, if Ike would give information regarding their whereabouts[2]. Ike Clanton, on the other hand, denied such a deal occurring. He said that Wyatt approached him, but he [Ike] would have nothing to do with the deal [1]. When the outlaws were found, they (allegedly) resisted arrest and the outlaws in the party who could clear Holliday’s name were killed. Ike grew restless and fearing that the Cowboys would hear about his deal with Wyatt [2]. Ike accused Wyatt of sharing their plan with Holliday. Ike confronted Wyatt and later Holliday. Virgil broke up the confrontation between Holliday and Ike, and while Holliday went to his hotel for the night, Ike continued to drink through to sunset. At this point Ike was looking to instigate a fight with Holliday and Wyatt. Wyatt and Virgil stopped Ike as he was walking down the
Several days after Till flirted with the young store owner, the youth was abruptly awakened by Roy Bryant and his half-brother JW Milam. Much to the protests of Moses Wright, Till’s uncle, the two men kidnapped Emmett Till and threw him in the back of their pick-up truck. Although their first intentions were to merely scare the youth, the night took a turn for the worst once Emmett began to resist the men and their attempts to subdue the boy. They brutally beat the boy and hit him several times with their guns. Bryant and Milam dragged the boy near the Tallahatchie River while making Emmett carry a cotton gin fan. Stripping Till of all his clothes, the men shot him in the head and sank the corpse in the river with the gin fan around his neck. Then the two men quickly escaped the crime scene. (World Criminal of Justice)
He then started to get himself in to trouble with the police when he was arrested for highway robbery, but was released when
Sheriff Tate might have some of the traits and qualities of a good sheriff. However, would a good sheriff lie, bend the law, or tamper with evidence. When Mayella claimed she was sexually abused Sheriff Tate didn’t take her to see a doctor. He claimed “No sir-” when Atticus asked “But you didn’t call a doctor? While you were there did anyone send for one, fetch one, carry her to one?”(224). Mayella could’ve been hurt and they could’ve had more evidence, but instead he decided not to get her a doctor. Sheriff Tate also tampered with evidence when Bob Ewell was killed. He switched the knives around and took the one that killed Bob Ewell. Then he insisted “Bob Ewell fell on his
Straying the frontier, Earp drifted from saloons and brothels. In Arkansas, he was jailed for stealing a horse, only to escape. In 1876 he trekked to his brothers brothel in Wichita, Kansas. There in Kansas, he established himself as a part-time police officer. Working hard, Earp was eventually made city marshal of Dodge City, Kansas. While in Kansas he met his good friend Doc Holliday. Joining his brothers Virgil and Morgan in tombstone, Arizona, December 1879, they hoped for silver wealth. Hopelessly finding no silver, Earp was forced to return to law work. Seeing tombstone as a wild horse needing to be tamed, he took the challenge to bring order to the order less town.
What happened that day is J.F.K was on his parade route and four shots were fired. One missed, one hit him in the back of the head, one from the front, and 1 in the side of the head. J.F.K was first seen grabbing his throat after the shot came in from the front. And then fell down in his wife's lap. A police officer said he saw a gun in the texas book depository
In the movie Hang em’ High, Clint Eastwood plays the main character Jed Cooper. A group of men accuse him of stealing cattle and killing one of their neighbors. When he can’t prove to them his innocence, they hang him. It just so happens that a U.S. Marshall was in the area and he saved Cooper’s life. Then the Marshall brought him to the judge to see if he is guilty. Eventually, it was discovered that Cooper was innocent, and had bought the cattle from a criminal who killed the owner then sold the cattle to him. Cooper was finally released, but he now wanted revenge on the men who tried to lynch him. The judge tells Cooper to give their descriptions to one of his marshal’s and they will try to find them, but Cooper feels that it’s not enough. The judge warns Cooper about taking the law into his own hands. When he told the judge that he was a formal law man, and he knows the law, the judge offers Cooper a job as a Marshall, and he takes the job. After accepting the job, he goes around and tried to gather up all men that tried to hang him. Along the way he has many side adventures, and tests the limits of right and wrong. In the end after a good old fashion western shoot out, Cooper goes back to town and decides that he’s done, or so we think. The judge made him realize
Do you think billy the kid (Henry McCarty Jr.) took a stand?Most people wouldn't think he does because he kills and he robs places. But that’s why because people don't see the good side of him like how he stood up for his boss or how when he stole butter as a kid he did it for his city. Billy the Kid moved to Arizona briefly before joining up with a gang of gunfighters called The Boys to fight in the Lincoln County War. Known as “The Kid” Billy switched to the opposition to fight with John Tunstall under the name “The Regulators”. Barely escaping with his life, McCarty became an outlaw and a fugitive. He died on July 14th, 1881 in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. He was born November 23, 1859, in New York City. Billy the kid had sandy blond hair and blue eyes and wore a signature sugar-loaf sombrero hat with a wide decorative band. He could be charming and polite one moment, then outraged and violent the next, a quixotic nature, he used to great effect during his heists and robberies.”
"We really would like to have a police chief who can focus solely in the Village of Horseheads. Mr. Schrom is in charge of the county jail, he is the Undersheriff and the Sheriff's Department has just gone into an agreement with the City of Elmira because of the concerns that they have. That's spreading someone a little too thin," explains Louise McIntosh.
The life of Johnny Ringo has been widely disputed. In the beginning of Tombstone, Ringo is seen shooting a Mexican priest. However, this particular incident never even happened. Ringo happened to be in California when the well-known gunfight at O.K. Corral occurred on October 26, 1881. Almost a year later, Ringo arrived back at Tombstone. He began drinking quite heavily for over a week. Less than two weeks later he was found dead underneath a tree from a gunshot wound to his head. Johnny Ringo’s cause of death is still unknown (“Gunfighter John Ringo Found Dead”). Therefore, this scene in the movie may or may not be accurate. At the time, his death was ruled as a suicide. Conversely, many theories have aroused arguing that Ringo’s death was actually a murder, which was staged to look like a suicide (Gatto). One reason for this belief is because Ringo’s gun that he supposedly shot himself with was verified as being fully loaded (Weiser). Later, Wyatt Earp admitted to allegedly killing Ringo. However, there is no substantial proof to corroborate either of these allegations, therefore it leaves the truth about his death to be unknown (Weiser). Ringo’s body was buried just a few yards away
Butch admired Cassidy and wanting to be like his friend but not disrespect the family changed his name to Butch Cassidy (D). The young boy apparently started rustling, eventually forcing him to leave home during his mid-teens under a cloud of suspicion (C). By all accounts Butch was a charming thief, who was well liked and who never, it’s believed, killed anyone (D). For several years, he moved around the west using the name Roy Parker (C). On June 24, 1889, Butch committed his first serious crime, robbing a bank in Telluride, Colorado, for more than $20,000 (C). After purchasing a ranch of his own in Dubois, Wyoming, in 1890, Cassidy continued his life of crime (D). In 1894, the law caught him, and he spent 2 years in jail for the crime (D). Despite his criminal background, Cassidy always kept his word (D). As one story goes, on the night before he was to begin his sentence, Cassidy asked to be released, promising he’d return to jail the following day (D). The authorities took his word for it and let him go, and Cassidy returned to them the following morning (D). After serving for two years in the Wyoming Territorial Prison at Laramie, Cassidy was pardoned (C). With several other outlaws that were called the Wild Bunch, Cassidy embarked on what is considered the longest stretch of successful train and bank robberies in
Lennie was talking to the boss’s son's wife, known as curley's wife Lennie killed curley's wife by accidentally snapping her neck. George and Candy were talking and george realizes that curley and boss would want to kill him or lock him up but they don't understand that lennie can't survive on his own. Georges debating whether to let the guys kill lennie or if he should,. George was telling Lennie a story and his hands were shaking and the gun drops. He continues to tell him the story but he hears the guys coming in the distance. George shoots Lennie and he
Towards the end of the film, inconsistency in characters seems to develop. In the scene, where herb shows up at the jail house ready to fight along side Kane changes his mind after he finds out that it will be just him and Kane fighting against Miller and his posse. Herb states, “it isn’t that I don’t want out…I volunteered but this is not what you
Following their interrogation and arrest, Bill and Stan attend the pre-trial procedures. Stan is being formally charged with accessory to murder in the first-degree, while Bill is charged with first-degree murder. At the arraignment, the judge begins by asking Vinny (the defense) how his clients
Throughout much help from the gang, one of the head guys Ike Clanton turn on the Earps. Because of this turn against each other, started a huge family feud. With much violence between the two family throughout the years it turn to a shootout at the end of tombstone on October 26.
Local law enforcement was having little to not success in stopping them. A year later Doolin took control after most of the Daltons was killed in a raid on two banks in Coffeyville. A sting of heist followed for the newly consolidated Doolin. Doolin and his gang were quite good at alluding capture. In fall of 1893, marshals finally closed in on the Wild Bunch when they learned that the Bunch was using the town of Ingalls as a hideout between raids. The afternoon of September 1, 1892, the gang was found inside George Ransom’s saloon. The lawmen moving in for the arrests were headed by Deputy Marshal John Hixon, who bought four other deputies with him- Lafe Shadley, Tim Hueston, Dick Speed and Jim Masterson. The show down started when Hueston was fired upon and dove for cover. Doolin shot and killed Speed as the deputy tried in vain to join Shadley, who was concealed behind the body of a horse. Then Shadley saw one of the outlaws fall wounded, he moved in but Dalton shot him in his tracks. Masterson later threw dynamite into the outlaws’ hiding place and captured Jones one of the members of the Wild Bunch, but the others fled southeast out of town (Government). The escaping outlaws halted at the top of a nearby ridge long enough to fire some final shots at the lawmen, and one of those bullets killed Frank Briggs, an innocent bystander. This pretty much