Billy the Kid Breakout Show The teenage outlaw of the Southwest comes to Texas
by Wendy Little
DON’T MISS Billy the Kid Breakout Shows
Held every 3rd Sunday at 1 p.m. & 3 p.m. at the Old El Paso County Jail Museum in the San Elizario Historic District 1551 Main St., San Elizario (915) 830-2563
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illy the Kid was one of several aliases, but he was born Henry McCarty in 1859. McCarty’s trouble with the law started in New Mexico when he was about 16. Committing petty crimes got him arrested and jailed several times early on, and on one of these occasions he escaped, and fled to Arizona which made him a fugitive. Soon after, he murdered a man in Arizona which made him a wanted man there, so back to New Mexico he went. Back in New Mexico he laid low for a time to avoid being arrested again. But then in 1876, he received a telegram about his friend Meliquiades Segura, who was jailed in San Elizario, El Paso County, Texas. McCarty (then going by William H. Bonney) was known for his jail breaking skills, so he set a plan to help his buddy. Rumor has it that it was ultimately his (alleged) girlfriend
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