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The posse had ostensibly been chasing Tunstall to attach, i.e., seize by legal authority, some stock Tunstall and his men were driving from Tunstall's ranch on the Feliz River to Lincoln, but the posse's real motivation may have been to eliminate John Tunstall as an economic threat to businessmen James Dolan and L.G. Murphy, who allegedly had ...
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The marshal's posse soon cornered and killed Yantis in a shootout. [citation needed] On June 11, 1893, the Wild Bunch held up a Santa Fe train west of Cimarron, Kansas. They took $1,000 in silver from the California-New Mexico Express. A sheriff's posse from old Beaver County, Oklahoma Territory, caught up with the gang north of Fort Supply ...
For over a year, Scurlock was in several posses to pursue and arrest horse thieves. He, Bowdre, and others lynched some of the thieves they caught. In January 1877, Scurlock and a neighbor, George Coe, were arrested by Sheriff William J. Brady for suspicion of harboring a murdering fugitive and member of the Jesse Evans Gang named Frank Freeman.
The John Kinney Gang, also known as the Rio Grande Posse, was an outlaw gang of the Old West which operated during the mid-1870s into the mid-1880s. The gang was organized by outlaw John Kinney, in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. From its beginning, the gang primarily committed acts of robbery and cattle rustling.
In 19th-century usage, posse comitatus also acquired the generalized or figurative meaning. [5] In classical Latin, posse is a contraction of potesse, an irregular Latin verb meaning "to be able". [6] [7] [8] The unusual genitive in "-ūs" is a feature of the fourth declension.
Posse member William Hicks [8] Posse member George Selvidge [9] Posse member Jim Ward [10] Posse member Riley Woods [11] At the time, the Beck family were not considered official posse members. Three were killed and one wounded. Posse member William Beck died the following day of wounds. [12] Posse member Black Sut Beck [13] Posse member Sam ...