Earp Historical Timeline Page 8

To Extradite or Not to Extradite . . .

• 1882, May 1 - John Clum sells the Epitaph and leaves Tombstone. In disgust I guess. It leaves Tombstone without a voice of support for the Earp party and its supporters.
• 1882, May 5 - The Trinidad News reports that Wyatt and Warren are still in town. The other members of the posse had finally moved on to other things.
• 1882, May 15 - Doc Holliday is apprehended in Denver, Colorado, by a Perry Mallen - supposedly for killing his partner years back. It's complicated but Mallen turns Doc into the local authorities where Doc is held to be returned to Arizona. Bat Masterson comes to Denver to help Doc out, with trumped up charges of running a confidence game. Mallen seems to be some sort of slippery fellow himself.
• 1882, May 19 - With the Arizona papers baying for action, Bob Paul arrives in Denver to serve extradition papers on Doc Holliday.
• 1882, May 29 - On the eve of Doc's extradition hearing, Masterson makes his case for Doc's life being in danger in Arizona with Colorado Governor Frederick Pitkin. Paul backs his arguement.
• 1882, May 30 - Pitkin rules against extraditing Holliday to Arizona on the basis of faulty wording in the papers and on the basis of Masterson's previous (made up) warrant for Pueblo.
• 1882, June 2 - Bob Paul is still cooling his heels in Denver, meeting with Pitkin about Doc's extradition. He doesn't have papers to pursue Wyatt and Warren in Gunnison, even though he's been assured they can be easily taken.
• 1882, Mid June - Wyatt talks to the papers in Gunnison that he's only waiting on a pardon to return to Tombstone, as he has done no wrong. After Doc has finished with his extradition hearings and been released on bail, he joins Wyatt in Gunnison where he remained for a couple of weeks.
• 1882, July - Virgil Earp is in San Francisco for specialist treatment for his wounds while Wyatt and Warren still cool their heels in Gunnison waiting fot the pardon that never comes.
• 1882, July 13 - Johnny Ringo is found propped dead against a tree with his watch ticking with his gun caught in the chain, only one shot discharged, his cartridge belt upside down, his boots missing and his undershirt wrapped around his feet. That and a bullet hole in his head. It's a mystery how he met his end but the verdict at the time was suicide. There are many theories otherwise.
• 1882, August 2 - Virgil Earp is arrested in San Francisco on a charge of dealing faro.
• 1882, Fall - Wyatt joins Virgil in San Francisco where he renews his acquaintance with Miss Josephine Sarah Marcus (Sadie) and they begin a permanent arrangement that lasts until Wyatt's death in 1929, nearly 47 years.
• 1882, November 14 - 7:30am Buckskin Frank Leslie shot and killed Billy the Kid Claiborne.
• 1883, Early Spring - Wyatt returns to Gunnison with Josie at his side.

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  Sources:
  The Illustrated Life and Times of Wyatt Earp by Bob Boze Bell, Boze Books, 1993
  Wyatt Earp and the Coeur d'Alene Gold!: Stampede to Idaho Territory, by Jerry Dolph and Arthur Randall, Eagle City Publishing, 1999
  Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend, by Casey Tefertiller, John Wiley & Sons, 1999
  Wyatt Earp: The Missing Years, San Diego in the 1880's, by Kenneth R. Cilch and Kenneth R. Cilch, Jr., Gaslamp Books, 1998
  The Earp Papers : In a Brother's Image by Don Chaput
  The Truth About Wyatt Earp by Richard E. Erwin