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Marshall Jim Adams at the grave of Marshall Frederick G. White
Tombstone, Arizona
"Several graves at a historic cemetery in Arizona have been desecrated.
According to the Tombstone Marshal’s Office, someone stole money left under rocks at some of the graves at Boothill Cemetery.
“It is a symbol of respect and remembrance to leave currency or trinkets at the sites,” Tombstone Marshal Jim Adams said in a tweet. “Maybe Karma will catch them before I do,”
"Several legendary cowboys and outlaws are buried at the cemetery, including Marshal Fred White, Billy Clanton, and Frank McLaury."
We as a society are judged by the way we treat our dead,” Adams told 13 News. “These are sacred sites, and this is a sacred place, and these are these people’s final resting place. This is a place to pay respects, not to try and get a couple of bucks.”
Adams said the graves were first discovered desecrated around mid-October.
According to Adams, an individual or group of individuals, believed to be locals, overturned the rocks from the grave sites to take any cash and valuables left behind.
“These graves are very old and historic, we’re talking 1880s,” he said. “The ground out here is really hard, and the graves are not deep, so there’s big piles of stones that have been here for 140 years.”"
Graves at historic Arizona cemetery desecrated
According to the Tombstone Marshal's Office, someone stole money left under rocks at some of the graves at Boothill Cemetery.
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How Marshall Frederick G. White departed.
"Curly Bill" Brocius. Marshall Frederick G. White
"On the night of October 28, 1880, several Cowboys entered town and began drinking, with several of them firing their pistols in the air at different locations.
Marshal White proceeded to confront each of them and disarm them.
All of those confronted by him gave up their weapons voluntarily, without incident.
Late that night, White encountered "Curly Bill" Brocius at the east end of town, on a dark street...
Brocius was intoxicated and he (or his companions) were firing pistols into the air.
White instructed Brocius to surrender his pistol. Brocius did this by pulling the weapon out of his pocket, handing it barrel-first to White."
"Wyatt Earp later claimed that he thought the pistol's hammer was "half-cocked" over a live round (it was later found to have contained six live rounds). When White grabbed the barrel and pulled, the weapon discharged, shooting White in the groin area.
Wyatt Earp, who witnessed the shooting and flash but could not clearly see the action in the dark, pistol-whipped Brocius, knocking him unconscious, and arrested him."
"Brocius was said to have terribly regretted the shooting of White, whom Brocius apparently liked, and maintained that it was an accident.
The next day, Wyatt Earp and another deputy took Brocius to the county jail in the county seat of Tucson, possibly saving him from being lynched when White later died.
White lingered for two days, dying on October 30, 1880."
"However, prior to his death, he gave testimony that ultimately led to Brocius being cleared of any wrongdoing.
White stated that the pistol fired accidentally, and that Brocius, intoxicated, evidently did not realize the pistol was cocked.
It was due to White's testimony, as well as a demonstration for the court that Brocius' pistol could be fired from the half-cock position, that Judge Neugass in Tucson dismissed the charge against Brocius. "
"Despite his regret over the shooting death of White and his assistance from Earp in being taken out of town (Earp also ended up testifying on his behalf), Brocius resented having been pistol-whipped by Earp during his arrest."
"This was one factor that led to increasing tensions between the Earps and the Cowboys. After the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral a year later and the murder of Morgan Earp in March 1882, Wyatt Earp pursued and killed Brocius in a gunfight in the countryside outside Tombstone."
William Brocius - Wikipedia
