On This Day July 14

The outlaw William "Billy The Kid" Bonney killed his first victim at age 18. According to legend, the outlaw killed 21 people, one for each year of his life. But the New Mexico Tourism Department puts the total closer to nine. He was sentenced to death for murdering a sheriff, but escaped (killing two guards), and was finally shot dead by Sheriff Pat Garrett on July 14, 1881 despite being promised clemency by then Governor Lew Wallace for testifying in a murder case.

Portrait of American gunman Billy the Kid (1859–1881). 

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