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1:14

Busting a prisoner out of jail

1:16

came with risks, and getting a prisoner

1:18

out of the Las Vegas, New Mexico

1:21

jail on North First Street was no

1:23

exception. Also called the San

1:25

Miguel County Jail, the facilities holding

1:28

cells were adjacent to a plaza

1:30

that connected law offices to the

1:32

town's courthouse. There were only three

1:34

cells in the jail, so one lawman

1:37

could easily keep an eye on his

1:39

prisoners. Ironically, a prisoner in one

1:41

of the cells in the spring of 1880

1:43

was a lawman, or at least he had

1:46

been until very recently. Josh Webb

1:48

had been the town marshal for

1:50

probably six weeks before he landed

1:52

in his own jail. The previous

1:54

marshal had been killed in a

1:56

shootout. The resulted from a confrontation

1:59

with four... or unruly cowboys.

2:01

The previous marshal and Josh

2:03

Webb were part of a criminal

2:05

syndicate in Las Vegas that was

2:07

known as the Dodge City Gang.

2:09

Members of the gang held various

2:12

important and official roles in town

2:14

and they used those roles to

2:16

their advantage. In March of 1880,

2:18

Marshall Webb confronted a man in

2:21

a saloon and ended up shooting

2:23

and killing the man. Webb claimed

2:25

the man had been reaching for

2:28

his pistol. and Webb fired in

2:30

self-defense. But very quickly, people in

2:32

Las Vegas started to believe that

2:35

the real reason for the confrontation

2:37

was that Josh Webb wanted to

2:39

steal the $1,900 that the man

2:42

was carrying. Webb was arrested,

2:44

convicted of murder, and sentenced

2:46

to hang. Now, he sat in jail

2:49

waiting for his execution, and

2:51

his friend, Dave Rudolphah, wanted

2:53

to break him out. Rudebaw,

2:56

also known as Dirty Dave

2:58

Rudebaw or Arkansas Dave Rudebaw,

3:00

had an interesting history

3:02

with Webb. Dave had been a robber

3:04

and a rustler in Arkansas and

3:06

Kansas, and he had been arrested

3:08

by Webb and Bat Masterson two

3:10

years earlier after a failed train

3:13

robbery. A few months later, Masterson

3:15

hired Webb and Rudebaw to

3:17

act as gunmen during the

3:19

Colorado Railroad Wars. After the

3:21

last big fight between gunmen

3:23

who represented the two competing

3:26

railroads in southern Colorado, Webb

3:28

and Rudolphaw drifted south to

3:30

Las Vegas, New Mexico. They

3:32

joined the Dodge City Gang that

3:34

ran much of the town and

3:37

made illegal money for several months.

3:39

But the situation changed dramatically after

3:41

Webb recklessly killed the man in

3:43

the saloon. Webb's arrest threatened to

3:46

upend much of the Dodge City

3:48

Gang's operation. and Dave didn't want

3:50

to see his friend hang, so

3:52

he organized a jailbreak. By the

3:54

end of April 1880, Dave and a

3:56

pal named John Llewellyn had a plan

3:59

in place. It really wasn't that

4:01

complicated, nor did it need to

4:03

be. They weren't assaulting a federal

4:05

prison. They were trying to break

4:07

one guy out of a jail

4:09

that only had three cells in

4:11

a single guard. But as with

4:13

most of Dave's plans, the jailbreak

4:16

went desperately and fatally wrong. Dave

4:18

would be forced to go on

4:20

the run, again, for at least

4:23

the third time in his relatively

4:25

short life. As a fugitive, Dave

4:27

would run out of the frying

4:29

pan and into the fire by

4:32

joining up with Billy the Kid

4:34

in the last few months

4:36

of the outlaw's life. From

4:38

Black Barrel Media, this

4:41

is Legends of the Old

4:43

West. I'm your host, Chris

4:45

Wimmer. And this season

4:47

we're telling the stories

4:50

of infamous outlaws Charlie

4:52

Bowles, better known as

4:54

Blackbard. Dirty Dave Rudolph.

4:56

and the duel in

4:59

Dalton gang. This is

5:01

episode 4, Dirty Dave

5:03

Rudolph Part 2 of

5:06

2, Lincoln County

5:08

Outlaw. Dave Rudolph

5:10

and John Llellan,

5:12

who was nicknamed

5:14

Little Allen, drew up

5:17

a straightforward plan to

5:19

break Webb out of

5:22

jail. They would hire a carriage

5:24

and ask the driver to wait nearby.

5:26

The two partners would enter the

5:29

jail, surprise the lone deputy who

5:31

guarded the prisoner, grab Webb,

5:33

and hustle him out to the carriage.

5:35

The escapee and his helpers would be

5:38

gone in a matter of seconds.

5:40

The plan was simple, but

5:42

the logic behind it

5:44

was problematic, and the

5:46

execution of it was worse. The first

5:48

issue was the idea to hire a

5:50

carriage. Carriages were slow. and Dave

5:52

would have been wiser to use horses.

5:54

Second, the carriage driver would be

5:57

an accomplice who could later turn

5:59

against them. Third, it doesn't appear

6:01

as though Dave and John told Webb

6:03

that they were going to break him

6:05

out of jail. Nevertheless, on the morning

6:08

of April 30th, Dave and John

6:10

hired the carriage and ordered the

6:12

driver to wait in front of

6:14

the Las Vegas jail as the

6:16

two outlaws approached the building. The

6:18

deputy who guarded the jail that

6:21

morning was Antonio Valdez. He

6:23

wasn't surprised when Dave and

6:25

his partner entered the jail. Dave

6:27

said he was there to visit Webb

6:29

and to give him a copy of

6:31

the town's newspaper. Deputy

6:33

Valdez allowed the visit, but

6:36

a moment later, he was staring

6:38

at the barrels of two revolvers.

6:40

Dave and John pulled their

6:43

pistols and demanded the keys

6:45

to Webb's cell. Deputy Valdez

6:47

refused to give up the keys, and

6:50

the outlaws opened fire. Valdez collapsed

6:52

to the floor. Valdez collapsed

6:54

to the floor. and the

6:56

outlaws panicked. Instead of grabbing

6:58

the keys from the dying deputy

7:01

and unlocking the jail cell, they

7:03

snatched the keys and tossed them

7:05

into Webb's cell. Dave and John

7:07

rushed out of the jail, hopped

7:09

in the carriage, and told the

7:11

driver to speed away. Dave assumed

7:13

Webb would unlock his cell and

7:15

find his own way out of

7:17

town. But Webb stared at the

7:19

scene in confusion and made no

7:21

attempt to pick up the keys.

7:23

Unbeknownst a Dave. Webb had filed

7:25

an appeal in his case. If

7:27

Webb escaped, it would have ended

7:30

his legal options, and it would

7:32

have confirmed his guilt in the

7:34

court of public opinion. In the

7:36

carriage that drove across town, Dave

7:38

and John didn't know that their

7:40

plan had completely fallen apart.

7:42

When the carriage made it to East Las

7:45

Vegas, the outlaws kicked the driver

7:47

out and stole his rig. Dave took

7:49

the reins and drove to a local

7:51

hardware store where he hopped out and

7:54

went inside Dave pulled his pistol

7:56

and threatened the store owner

7:58

Dave stole two pistol and two

8:00

rifles, and then raced out of the

8:02

store, hopped in the carriage, and sped

8:05

off down the street. Behind Dave

8:07

and John, the gunfire in the

8:09

commotion in town drew attention. Deputy

8:12

Antonio Valdez was dead on the

8:14

floor of the jail, and the

8:16

citizens quickly formed two posies

8:18

to chase the killers. The first

8:21

posse failed to make any progress,

8:23

but the second followed the carriage

8:25

tracks for about 25 miles

8:27

outside of Las Vegas. There,

8:29

the posse found a disconcerting sight.

8:32

The carriage and its horses

8:34

had been abandoned at a

8:36

sheep camp. According to a witness,

8:38

Dave Rudebaw and John Llewellyn stole

8:40

water and fresh horses and took

8:42

off. It was the first confirmed

8:45

kill of Rudebaw's criminal career, though

8:47

no one would be shocked if there

8:49

were others buried in his past. Dave

8:52

Rudebaw was now a verified

8:54

killer in addition to all of

8:56

his other criminal activities. and he

8:58

was on the run. In Las

9:01

Vegas, Josh Webb's appeal partially failed.

9:03

His conviction wasn't overturned, and

9:05

he didn't receive a new trial,

9:08

but his sentence was reduced from

9:10

death to life in prison. Dave's

9:12

attempt at a jailbreak was a

9:15

failure, but as fate would have

9:17

it, Rudolphah and Webb would have

9:19

another go-around in the near future.

9:21

By then, things would be very

9:24

different in New Mexico. After

9:26

Webb's murder conviction was upheld

9:28

and the attempted jailbreak led

9:30

to the death of a deputy,

9:32

the Dodge City gang began to

9:34

crash. Townspeople rose up against

9:37

a criminal syndicate. Hyman Neal,

9:39

the leader of the outfit who was

9:41

known as Houdou Brown, was driven out

9:43

of power and he fled the

9:45

territory. The rest of the gang

9:47

members scattered, and ironically for

9:49

Dave Rudebaw, Josh Webb decided to

9:52

break out of jail. Webb did not

9:54

relish spending the rest of his life

9:56

in prison, so he joined a few other

9:58

prisoners and they successfully escaped from

10:00

the San Miguel County Jail.

10:03

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10:05

upheaval, Josh Webb and Dave Rudolphall

10:07

were on the run at the

10:09

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realm. John Little Allen

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Llewellyn suffered from

12:14

rheumatism and tuberculosis.

12:16

He was hurting mightily

12:19

as he and Dave

12:21

spent long hours in

12:23

the saddle during their

12:25

escape from Las Vegas.

12:27

At some point... John told Dave

12:30

that he couldn't continue.

12:32

Depending on the source, John

12:34

asked Dave to put him out of

12:36

his misery, and Dave obliged. Regardless

12:39

of how they parted ways, Dave

12:41

Rudolpha rode into Fort Sumner by

12:43

himself at the end of April

12:45

1880. By that time, Fort Sumner had

12:48

been a town much longer than

12:50

it had been a military outpost.

12:52

The army fort was constructed

12:55

in 1863. to help supervise

12:57

the new Boseke Redondo Reservation

13:00

for the Mescalero Apache,

13:02

a reservation which kick

13:04

Carson was instrumental in establishing.

13:06

As always on the frontier,

13:08

a town developed around

13:10

the fort. When the army closed

13:12

the fort in 1868, the town stayed

13:15

in place and kept the name of

13:17

the military base. By 1880,

13:19

Fort Sumner was the closest thing

13:21

to home that Billy the Kid

13:23

had. Henry Antrim, originally named

13:25

Henry McCarty, also known as

13:28

William H. Bonny and nicknamed

13:30

The Kid, would eventually become

13:32

one of the most famous people

13:35

in American history and would be known

13:37

to the world as Billy the

13:39

Kid. When Dave Rudabar wrote into

13:41

Billy's adopted hometown in the spring

13:44

of 1880, Billy had 14 months to

13:46

live, and he was seven months

13:48

away from beginning his cat and

13:50

mouse game with Sheriff Pat Garrett.

13:55

In the short space of three years,

13:57

Billy the kid had established himself

13:59

as a notorious figure in

14:01

New Mexico territory. He had been

14:03

a ranch hand for a young

14:05

Englishman named John Tunstel before Tunstel

14:08

was murdered by gunmen who worked

14:10

for L.G. Murphy and Jimmy Dolan,

14:12

two prominent men in a

14:14

widespread criminal and political machine

14:16

known as the Santa Fe Ring.

14:18

After Tunstel's murder, Billy and

14:20

other Tunstel supporters, who were

14:22

called the Lincoln County Regulators,

14:25

battled the Murphy-Dolin faction in

14:27

the Lincoln County War of

14:29

1878. The Murphy-Dolan faction

14:31

won the war, and afterward, Billy

14:33

and a few of the surviving

14:35

regulators were indicted for a murder

14:37

that they likely did not commit.

14:39

Billy eventually allowed himself to be

14:41

caught and taken to jail because

14:43

he thought he had secured a

14:45

secret deal with the governor of

14:48

New Mexico territory. Billy thought

14:50

that if he provided testimony in

14:52

court about a different murder, charges

14:54

related to the previous murder would

14:56

be dropped. But in the summer of

14:59

1879, Billy believed the governor had

15:01

backed out of the deal, and Billy

15:03

escaped from jail. He laid low

15:05

for six months, but in January

15:07

1880, he killed a man named

15:09

Joe Grant in a saloon in

15:12

Fort Sumner. And that's where things

15:14

stood, in April 1880, when Dave

15:16

Rudolphah showed up in Fort Sumner.

15:19

One of Billy's friends was a rancher

15:21

named Jim Great House, who ran

15:23

a tavern in a stage station.

15:25

It was through Great House, that Dirty

15:28

Dave met Billy the kid. Dave

15:30

felt right at home with Billy's

15:32

crew. It was said by some that

15:34

Dave was one of the few

15:36

people who unnerved the kid. Rudolph

15:38

was unpredictable and he could

15:41

be nasty with little provocation.

15:44

A close confidant of the kid

15:46

once said, if ever there was

15:48

a living man the kid was afraid

15:51

of, it was a rootable. For

15:53

the rest of 1880, Rudolphab

15:55

teamed up with Billy the Kid and

15:57

his gang, which included Tom O'Folliard. Charlie

15:59

B. Todry, Tom Pickett, and a

16:02

few others at various times.

16:04

Dave helped them steal horses

16:06

and army payrolls. He also

16:08

aided gang members in holding

16:10

up stage coaches, but their

16:12

crime spree hit a snag

16:14

in November 1880. The gang stole

16:17

a bunch of horses, and

16:19

a posse eventually tracked the

16:21

gang to Great House Station

16:23

and Tavern. On the morning

16:25

of November 29, 1880, the

16:28

posse surrounded the ranch house.

16:30

They captured the cook when

16:32

the man went outside while

16:34

preparing breakfast. The posse used

16:36

the cook to relay messages

16:38

inside to the outlaws. In

16:41

response to an order to

16:43

surrender, the outlaws sent out

16:45

a scrap of paper on which

16:47

was written a brief message.

16:49

Go to Hell. Deputy Sheriff

16:52

James Carlisle was one of the

16:54

men in charge of the posse.

16:56

At some point during the tedious

16:59

exchange of messages, it was

17:01

decided that Jim Great House

17:03

would go outside as a hostage,

17:05

and Deputy Carlisle would go inside

17:07

to speak to the outlaws in

17:10

person. Carlisle was inside for quite

17:12

a while, maybe for hours, and

17:14

the posse grew restless. The

17:16

dramatic shift happened at about 2

17:18

p.m. The reason will forever remain

17:21

a mystery, but one of the

17:23

men in the posse fired a single

17:25

shot. Deputy Carlyle may have

17:27

thought it was a warning shot that

17:29

was supposed to be his signal, or

17:31

he may have thought the worst case scenario

17:34

had just happened. The posse

17:36

had executed Billy's friend, Jim

17:39

Great House. Whatever the thinking, Carlyle

17:41

dove through the tavern window and

17:43

landed in the snow and shattered

17:45

glass outside. He jumped up and

17:47

raced away from the building. Behind

17:49

him, the outlaws opened fire. At

17:52

least one bullet, and maybe as

17:54

many as three, struck Carlisle and

17:56

killed him. With Carlisle dead

17:58

and about seventy-five... shots

18:00

exchanged between the two

18:02

groups, the posse withdrew. When

18:05

the outlaws believed it was

18:07

safe, they exited the great

18:09

house station and tavern,

18:11

climbed onto their horses,

18:13

and rode away. Billy the Kid,

18:15

Dave Rudolphah, and the others were

18:18

in the wind. No one knew

18:20

who fired the shot or

18:22

shots that killed Deputy Sheriff

18:24

Jim Carlyle. Later, Billy tried

18:26

to blame the posse for killing

18:28

the lawmen with friendly fire.

18:30

Rudolpho said at least three outlaws

18:33

fired at Carlisle, but he stopped

18:35

short of assigning blame, or credit,

18:37

to a specific person. Either way,

18:39

the shootout and the killing added

18:41

urgency to the effort of Pat

18:44

Garrett, the incoming sheriff of Lincoln

18:46

County, New Mexico. Garrett was elected

18:48

in early November, and he wasn't

18:51

supposed to take office until January...

18:53

but he started work early. The

18:55

outgoing sheriff made Garrett a deputy

18:58

so that Garrett could start tracking

19:00

Billy the kid right away. Garrett

19:03

also received an appointment as a

19:05

deputy U.S. Marshal so that he

19:07

could chase the outlaws across state

19:10

and territorial boundaries as Billy and

19:12

his gang were known to move

19:14

stolen horses between New Mexico and

19:16

Texas. Garrett and Apossi hurried in

19:19

pursuit of Billy's gang after the

19:21

great house shootout. and Garrett quickly

19:23

caught a gang of horse thieves

19:25

and fugitives, but it wasn't Billy's

19:27

gang. Garrett ended up catching Josh Webb,

19:29

who had been on the run for

19:32

about seven months after escaping from jail

19:34

in Las Vegas. Garrett quickly turned

19:36

Webb over to the authorities in

19:38

San Miguel County, and Webb went right

19:40

back to the jail from which he had

19:43

escaped. A couple weeks after the interlude

19:45

with Webb, Pat Garrett learned from

19:47

a local cattleman. that Billy and

19:49

his crew were headed to Fort

19:52

Sumner for a night of entertainment

19:54

and relaxation. On December 19th, Billy

19:56

the Kid, Dave Rudolphall, and other

19:58

members of the gang... road into

20:00

town, and Pet Garrett and his

20:02

posse were waiting for them. The posse

20:05

opened fire, and the outlaws

20:07

scrambled in every direction.

20:09

As they galloped away from town,

20:11

one outlaw was hit and fell

20:14

dead, and Dave Rudolph's horse was

20:16

badly injured. Outside town, Dave hopped

20:18

onto outlaw Billy Wilson's horse to

20:21

finish the escape. When the lawmen

20:23

examined the body of the dead

20:25

outlaw, they hoped they had killed

20:28

Billy the kid. Instead, The

20:30

dead young man was

20:32

Tom O'Folliard, Billy's closest

20:34

friend. A vicious snowstorm pelted

20:37

New Mexico, and the

20:39

frigid weather delayed Pat

20:41

Garrett's pursuit. But within

20:43

four days, Garrett and his posse

20:45

managed to track Billy, Dave, and

20:48

the rest of the gang through

20:50

the snow. The five gang members

20:52

were hold up in a

20:54

tiny stone house in an

20:56

area known as Stinking Springs.

20:58

The crude building had no windows

21:00

and only one door, and it

21:03

was the perfect trap. On December

21:05

23rd, 1880, Garrett and his posse

21:07

moved into position near the house.

21:10

Soon afterward, Charlie Bodry, one

21:12

of the original Lincoln County

21:14

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21:17

to feed the horses. The

21:19

posse opened fire and hit Bodry

21:21

multiple times. He was bleeding

21:23

badly as he tumbled back into

21:26

the doorway of the stone house.

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With Bodry blocking the doorway,

21:30

the outlaws realized they would get shredded

21:32

if they tried to make it

21:34

to their horses. They had no

21:36

other avenue of escape, no food,

21:38

no water, and no hope of

21:40

winning a shootout against Pat Garrett

21:42

and his posse. According to Garrett,

21:45

it was Dave Rudolph who waved

21:47

a handkerchief in the doorway of

21:49

the house and said the gang

21:51

would surrender. Garrett promised that if

21:53

they came out unarmed, then he

21:55

and his men would hold their

21:57

fire. The four outlaws complied.

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and stumbled out of the shelter.

22:02

Garrett recalled that Billy and

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Dave were surprisingly cheerful when they

22:06

were taken into custody, but Dave's

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attitude changed when he learned that he

22:10

would have to go to Las Vegas

22:12

to face a murder charge. First he

22:14

was taken to Santa Fe, where

22:17

he was charged with robbing

22:19

stagecoaches and stealing federal payrolls.

22:21

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22:23

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Dave Rudolph returned to was vastly

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different from the one he had

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fled in a carriage eight months earlier.

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He had hurried out of town at

23:49

the end of April 1880, after killing

23:51

Deputy Valdez and failing to break out

23:53

Josh Webb. and it was now

23:55

the early part of 1881. The

23:58

Dodge City Gang was gone. and

24:00

the town's people were ready for

24:02

a new direction. For Dave

24:04

Rudolphah, a guilty verdict

24:06

was virtually guaranteed.

24:08

While Rudolphah awaited the inevitable,

24:11

he sat in a cell

24:13

in the San Miguel County

24:15

Jail near his friend Josh Webb.

24:17

Webb had arrived a few weeks

24:20

earlier, after having been caught

24:22

Garrett caught Rudolphah. Webb

24:24

and Rudolphah sat in their

24:26

cells month after month in

24:28

1881. In July, Pat Garrett killed

24:30

Billy the kid in Fort Sumner,

24:33

or didn't, depending on which story

24:35

you want to believe. Two months

24:37

later, in September, Dave Rudolphaud

24:39

decided he was done waiting

24:41

for his trial. No one knows

24:44

exactly how Dave managed to procure wire

24:46

and a pistol, but he used the

24:48

wire to pick the lock on his

24:50

cell. Then, with the pistol in hand,

24:52

he crept down the hall and discovered

24:55

the guard asleep in the jail.

24:57

For reasons that are unknown and

24:59

make no sense, Rudebal woke

25:01

up the guard and fired a shot

25:04

from the pistol. The alert ended

25:06

his hope of escape, and he

25:08

returned to his cell to face his

25:11

trial. The prosecution had to

25:13

prove beyond a reasonable doubt

25:15

that Dave Rudebal committed the

25:17

crime and that he had

25:20

planned to kill Deputy Valdez.

25:22

Rudeba refuted both claims by

25:24

saying that he didn't kill

25:26

Valdez. Rudeba said his partner,

25:29

John Llewellin, who was now

25:31

dead, pulled the trigger. The

25:33

prosecution was not able to

25:35

prove that Rudeba committed premeditated

25:37

murder, but the jury returned

25:40

a guilty verdict nonetheless. Dirty

25:42

Dave Rudeba now had a date

25:44

with the gallows, and even more

25:47

motivation to break out of jail.

25:49

A group of five prisoners, including

25:51

Rudolphaw and Josh Webb, used a

25:53

knife, a fire poker, and a

25:56

pick to tunnel out of their

25:58

cells. In December 1880... One, Dave

26:00

Rudolphah and Josh Webb escaped

26:03

from jail and were fugitives

26:05

once again. The two men headed

26:07

east to Texas and said

26:09

their final goodbyes. Josh Webb continued

26:12

traveling east until he reached

26:14

Arkansas, where he reportedly lived

26:16

under the name Samuel King

26:19

until he died from smallpox

26:21

in 1882. For the first time

26:24

in a long time, Dave Rudolph

26:26

was truly on his own. As such,

26:28

his story became even more shrouded

26:30

in mystery than normal. But

26:32

the most popular story of his

26:34

next adventure saw him continue his

26:36

journeyman ways. His life had already

26:39

overlapped with legends of the West

26:41

like Bat Masterson, Josh Webb, Billy

26:43

the Kid, Pat Garrett, and of

26:45

course, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday.

26:47

At the end of 1881 and

26:49

the beginning of 1882, if there

26:51

was one hot spot in the

26:53

West that would be logical for

26:55

an outlaw to head to head

26:57

to, It was Tombstone, Arizona.

26:59

Newspaper accounts and eyewitnesses

27:02

place Dave Rudolph in the

27:04

area around Tombstone in late

27:06

1881 or early 1882. One

27:08

of the eyewitnesses was reportedly

27:10

Wyatt Earp himself, who thought

27:12

Rudolph might have been present

27:14

at one of the most

27:16

iconic moments of the tombstone

27:18

story and the Wyatt Earp

27:20

Biography. Rudolph was definitely not

27:23

in tombstone during the year and

27:25

a half of tense buildup between

27:27

the Erp family plus Doc Holliday

27:29

and the outlaw gang known as the

27:32

Cowboys. And Rudolpha wasn't there for

27:34

the gunfight that happened in a

27:36

vacant lot on Fremont Street on

27:38

October 26th 1881. He was running

27:41

with Billy the Kids gang in New

27:43

Mexico at the time. But it's possible

27:45

that Rudolphod drifted to the extreme

27:47

southwest in time for the second

27:50

half of the tombstone story,

27:52

the phase known as Wyatt Earp's

27:54

vendetta ride. After

28:00

the cattle season of 1879 finished

28:02

in Dodge City, the Earp Clan

28:04

moved to America's newest boom

28:07

town, Tombstone, Arizona. The town

28:09

sprang up in record time around

28:11

rich silver mines, and the Earps

28:13

and Dock Holiday wanted in on

28:16

the action. At the same time, a

28:18

loose-knit group of rustlers and

28:20

thieves known as the Cowboys operated

28:22

in the area. For more than

28:24

a year and a half, pressure

28:26

built between the Earps and the

28:29

Cowboys. On October 26th, 1881,

28:31

it exploded in the most

28:33

famous shootout in American history.

28:35

The gunfight at the OK Corral.

28:38

Wyatt Erp, Virgil Erp, Morgan

28:40

Erp, and Doc Holliday battled

28:42

the Clanton brothers and the

28:45

McClaury brothers. The result was

28:47

three men dead. Billy Clanton, Frank

28:49

McClaury, and Tom McClaury,

28:51

and two wounded, Virgil

28:53

Erp and Morgan Erp. Four

28:56

days after the gun fight... Ike

28:58

Clinton, who had been unarmed and

29:00

had run away when the shooting

29:02

started, filed murder charges

29:04

against the Earps and Holiday.

29:06

A combative month-long hearing

29:09

before Judge Wells-Spicer

29:11

concluded with Spicer condemning

29:13

the actions of the Earp faction,

29:16

but ruling in their favor. They

29:18

did not break any laws. The

29:20

cowboys and their supporters were

29:22

outraged, and on December 28, 1881,

29:24

they began their plan for

29:26

vengeance. That night Virgil walked

29:28

out of the Oriental saloon

29:31

and began to cross Fifth

29:33

Street when shotgun blasts erupted

29:35

from a vacant building on

29:38

the other side of the

29:40

intersection. Virgil survived the ambush,

29:42

but his left arm was

29:44

crippled. And it's at about

29:46

that time that stories start

29:48

to place Dave Rudolphah in

29:50

tombstone. If he were there, and if

29:53

he had joined up with the

29:55

cowboys, It's unlikely that they would

29:57

have involved a new guy in

29:59

a high-profile assassination. attempt. Three months

30:01

later, on March 18th, 1882, Gunman

30:03

successfully killed Morgan Earp. Rumors also

30:06

swirled that Rudolphah may have helped

30:08

in the assassination, but he wasn't

30:10

one of those who were identified

30:13

afterward, and again, his participation is

30:15

unlikely. The murder of Morgan pushed

30:17

Wyatt to form a posse with

30:20

Doc Holliday and several others to

30:22

hunt down the outlaws who had

30:25

been attacking his family. Why its

30:27

relentless pursuit and take-no-prisoner strategy became

30:29

known as the Vendetta Ride? And

30:32

the most famous part of the

30:34

Vendetta Ride was the confusing but

30:36

incredibly exciting shootout in the wetstone

30:39

mountains west of tombstone. Why its

30:41

posse rode to a well-known spring

30:43

in the mountains, where the men

30:46

expected to meet a courier who

30:48

was bringing them money so they

30:50

could continue their mission. To everyone's

30:53

surprise, the posse found a group

30:55

of cowboys at the spring. who

30:58

were led by Curly Bill Brocious.

31:00

A gunfight exploded almost immediately. According

31:02

to the legend, Curly Bill fired

31:05

a shotgun at Wyatt that peppered

31:07

Wyatt's coat with holes but didn't

31:09

hurt the man himself. Then Wyatt

31:12

blasted Curly Bill with a 10-gauge

31:14

shotgun that nearly cut Curly Bill

31:16

in half. The shootout roared across

31:19

the spring until the cowboys retreated.

31:21

It was the last major action

31:24

of Wyatt Herb's fined a ride.

31:26

and the story was told and

31:28

retold many times over the years.

31:31

In competing accounts, Wyatt suspected that

31:33

one of the cowboys that day

31:35

was Dirty Dave Rudolphah. But why

31:38

it wasn't sure? Then, according to

31:40

a newspaper editor from Dodge City,

31:42

Wyatt confirmed that Rudolphah was at

31:45

the shootout. But the story will

31:47

always be hotly contested. Regardless of

31:50

whether or not Dave Rudolphah. was

31:52

in southern Arizona and participated in

31:54

any of the events surrounding the

31:57

Earp War with the Cowboys. The

31:59

wildest part of the tombstone story

32:01

was done by the summer of

32:04

1882. Most of the herbs and

32:06

dock holiday were gone from the

32:08

territory and the cowboys were essentially

32:11

defunct. Dirty Dave Rudolpha seemed to

32:13

become a ghost for a few

32:15

years until his final hurrah south

32:18

of the border in 1886. Dave

32:20

Rudolpha bid farewell to the United

32:23

States and went to the Mexican

32:25

state of Chihuahua. Bordering New Mexico

32:27

and Texas, Chihuahua was a region

32:30

full of cowboys and small communities.

32:32

And Rudolpha settled in Hidalgo del

32:34

Peral. At one point, it was

32:37

called the Best Silver Mining Location

32:39

in Central America. Silver still flowed

32:41

into the city with regularity, and

32:44

the influx of money sponsored an

32:46

active nightlife. Saloons, Bordelos, and cantinas

32:48

operated late into the night. Rudolpha

32:51

tried to make a living as

32:53

a cowboy. But then he became

32:55

a rustler. When he grew tired

32:58

of stealing horses and cattle, he

33:00

tried his hand at being a

33:02

butcher. Then he spent most of

33:05

his time in the gambling dens,

33:07

and he stopped trying to find

33:10

work. When he was at the

33:12

poker table, he applied the tricks

33:14

taught to him by Doc Holliday

33:17

in those long ago days of

33:19

1877. But he didn't have Doc's

33:21

ability for cards, and his demeanor

33:24

did not endear him to the

33:26

people of town. Hard drinking and

33:28

gambling were a volatile combination, and

33:31

Dave Rudolphos soon crossed a line.

33:33

On the night of February 18th,

33:35

1886, Dirty Dave was in a

33:38

cantina as usual. He had allegedly

33:40

downed a bottle of tequila before

33:42

playing, so he was painfully drunk

33:45

while trying to play poker. His

33:47

irritability intensified. because of the chatter

33:49

coming from the other players at

33:52

the table. Rudolphah couldn't understand Spanish,

33:54

despite his many days. in Mexico

33:57

and he thought the other players

33:59

were mocking him. Dave's luck worsened

34:01

as the game progressed. He loudly

34:04

claimed that he was being cheated.

34:06

One source said it was actually

34:08

Dave who was cheating and one

34:11

of his opponents stood up and

34:13

told him so in English. The

34:15

man moved his hand toward his

34:18

gun and Dave drew his pistol

34:20

and fired before the man cleared

34:22

leather. As drunk as Dave was,

34:25

he wasn't so drunk. that he

34:27

couldn't shoot a man right between

34:29

the eyes. As the dead man

34:32

tumbled backward, another card player drew

34:34

his gun and fired. The man

34:36

missed, but Rudabas spun in his

34:39

chair and shot the second man

34:41

in the chest. Dave turned again

34:44

and shot a third man. In

34:46

seconds, two men were dead, one

34:48

was wounded, and the card game

34:51

was well and truly finished. Dave

34:53

stood up and walked out of

34:55

the cantina only to find that

34:58

the horse he had tied up

35:00

out front was gone. When he

35:02

turned back toward the cantina with

35:05

his pistol in hand, his time

35:07

was up. And his end would

35:09

not be for the faint of

35:12

heart. Someone in or near the

35:14

cantina shot Rudolph with a rifle.

35:16

More shots followed, and the reports

35:19

echoed through the cantina and the

35:21

street. Rudolpho's legs buckled, and he

35:23

fell down dead in the street.

35:26

People raced out of the cantina

35:28

and other buildings, and a mob

35:31

began to swarm around the body.

35:33

of the 31-year-old outlaw. A man

35:35

with a machete, decapitated Dirty Dave

35:38

Rudolphah. Like a macabre parade, townspeople

35:40

marched through the streets with Rudolphah's

35:42

head held aloft. One account claims

35:45

the people put Rudolphah's head on

35:47

a spike. They hastily buried his

35:49

body in a nearby cemetery, and

35:52

later buried his head with it.

35:54

Like many outlaws, his friend Billy

35:56

included... Rumor circulated that rootabaw did

35:59

not die a terrible death in

36:01

Mexico, but instead he returned to

36:03

America, got married, raised a family,

36:06

and turned himself into a cattle

36:08

rancher. But of all the rumors

36:10

associated with Dirty Dave Rudolphah, the

36:13

one where he lives out a

36:15

quiet life as a family man

36:18

and a rancher seems the most

36:20

far-fetched. Next time on Legends of

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the Old West, we'll begin the

36:25

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36:27

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36:29

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