Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
Manuscript Probate Document, 8” x 12,” Lincoln County New Mex., Ter., May Term 1881. In part, In the Matter of the Estate of J.W. Bell, dec’d .... comes G.W. Mitchel admistration of the estate ....” The document was filed May 5, 1881, only 1 week after Bell was shot down. James W. Bell (1853-1881) J.W. Bell was a deputy sheriff of Lincoln County, NM under Sheriff Pat Garrett in 1881. Bell, along with fellow deputy Robert Olinger, was killed in the line of duty by Billy the Kid when he escaped from custody in Lincoln while awaiting hanging for the murder of the previous sheriff, William Brady.
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