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I had a question not long ago by a reader who asked. “Wyatt Earp murdered at least three people when he wasn’t a lawman. In fact Arizona had a warrant out for him and Doc Holliday. Why is he considered a great man today? Remember, the vendetta was begun by the Cow-boys, not the Earps. Here’s the situation. That murder warrant out for his arrest was politically motivated by persons by the same element who lied under oath at the Spicer Hearings to get Wyatt tried for murder. The Earp’s were a close-knit band of brothers. In less than three months the two brothers he was closest to were victims of back-shooting assassins. One was crippled for life and the other murdered. In both instances eyewitnesses identified the shooters but both times their friends came forward, provided alibi’s and the killers walked.
Shortly after the fatal shooting of Tombstone Town Marshal, Fred White by Curly Bill Brocius on October 30 th, 1880, Virgil Earp was appointed town marshal. An election was held on November 12 th. Jim Flynn, Virgil Earp and Ben Sippy ran for marshal. Sippy defeated Earp 311 votes to 250. Flynn dropped out of the race to go into business at the Cosmopolitan Saloon. Sippy defeated Virgil again in the regular election on January 4 th but skipped town in June and Virgil was appointed marshal. He and his deputies including Flynn did an outstanding job keeping the peace and prevented looting and lot-jumping after the disastrous fire on June 22