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Another influential witness for the defense was Deputy District Attorney Winfield Scott Williams.

He testified that Sheriff Behan had inaccurately reported a conversation he had with Virgil Earp the evening after the gunfight during which, according to Williams, Behan told Virgil that one of the McLaury brothers drew his gun first, and " You did perfectly right.

" Behan denied that he said anything resembling this.