JAILBREAK billythe Kid, that little weasel, was fond of gambling and dancing and the Mexican girls adored him, but he didn’t like to work. To support himself and his vices he was a thief. In August of 1877, at age 17, he murdered a man named Windy Cahill at Fort Grant, AT and then skipped over the line to New Mexico and fell in with Jesse Evans and his merry band of rogues. Evans admired Billy’s spunk, but his boys were seasoned outlaws that had little use for nursemaiding such a lazy youngster and in fairly short order Billy found himself on the discard heap with them. After further hardening among the rough elements around Seven Rivers Billy found himself in the clutches of an Englishman in Lincoln County named John Tunstall. Tunstall was
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