Long live the Kid!

[Robert Fiorent]

There is a great site on the web containing lots and lots of info on both Brushy Bill and John Miller, dealing with and dissecting the evidence and claims around these men: It makes for a great read a rainy night over a cup of coffee!

http://www.angelfire.com/mi2/billythekid/brushy.html

Here is a link to another great forum discussion which I highly recommend that you read (although, after entering, the essentials don't appear until halfway down the page). It deals with evidence for and against the survival of Billy the Kid. Great and interesting reading. Please read all, for a complete picture. I highly recommend it!

http://brushybill.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=...

More later,

Robert

[Wolfgang]

The kid is alive and well . . . . I seed him yesterday at a side walk cafe . . . he wuz chatting with Elvis. 

[Nick Fatta Jr.]

hey Robert, i have studied both very thourough over the last couple of decades and ya know, im a little torn, they both have merit, i posted both of these recently, and got some interesting feedback, that guy named Nicholas something is a nice person but not worth arguing with, he is completely one of those people that takes history as someone told him it happened and doesnt investigate it further (doesnt make for a good detective) but oh well HA! anywho, brushy bill's story has alot of merit in the sense that if you take it further than what you hear on this site it gets interesting, they say he was stumbleing and nervous when he showed up to the governors officer, well, he was surrounded by deputies and garrett's family members and he eventually had a stroke half way through the meeting, as far as john miller, looks alot like him as well, denied it to his famiily but admitted it to his friends, i could go on for hours, what do you think?

[Robert Fiorent]

Nick, I salute your theories and assumptions! I'm totally with you on this one.

Finally someone who agrees with me! I, from the bottom of my heart, have a strong feeling that the Kid did survive. There's just too much fishiness surrounding this case. Frederick Nolan said that Brushy once claimed he was a part of the Jesse James gang as well. I don't personally think Brushy was Billy. Brushy had a very fertile beard growth, while the Kid, in his 20's was described as having a "silky fuzz" on his upper lip - granted, he could've been a late bloomer, but I don't know. I'm actually in the middle of reading Helen Airy's "whatever happened to Billy the Kid" for the second time and I'll be posting my conclusion after I'm finished with it, although I can pretty much right away tell you that I'm almost 100 percent positive Miller was the Kid. The Helen Airy book contains A LOT of very intriguing and captivating information that you won't find on the web:

-Mckinney and Poe later on told people Garrett had shot the wrong man

- Garrett refused to sign an affidavit stating he'd killed the Kid. Said he: "I know who I shot."

- Miller's adopted son, Max, swore that his father was the Kid, and so did many other people.

  It was like common knowledge, "what, you didn't know that?" 

- Garretts daughter said later on in life that her father had killed the wrong man. I think that ought to count for something.

Miller said an interesting thing also, he said that Garrett wasn't good enough a shot to have taken out Billy; he'd have to shoot him in the back. I think that, in a closed-knitted community, such as Fort sumner with the mexican residents being overrepresented, surely the Kid would've been warned or something about the arrival of foreign men carrying the standard of law, or in the least arousing suspicion of it. The Kid was not sloppy, he was smart, he figured for some reason it would be smarter in this case following his escape from the Lincoln court house, to stay close to the fire instead of skinning the hell out of there. "Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer."

Don't try and tell me that a man who escaped as much as he did, and who kept a cool head in the face of danger as often as he did, was reckless to the degree where he let himself be cornered and shot... the Kid wanted a peaceful and quite life, nothing else... and that's what probably got too in the zuni mountain area.

Now, there's just a thing which bothers me about the Miller case, and that is the ears! I you look at the famous tri-part superimposed pic of the Kid and Miller, you'll find that the Kid's left ear (from our view) is pretty protruding, whereas Miller's ear seems to be of the "tucked in" kind. Now, it could very well be Miller's hat that tucked the ear in, on account of the hat being tight and close-fitting and all.

All in all, I'm pretty sure Miller was the Kid. 

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