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Behan said he broke his promise to appoint Earp because Wyatt Earp used Behan's name to threaten Ike Clanton when Wyatt recovered his stolen horse from Clanton.
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Behan and said
" Wyatt said Behan told him and Morgan, " I have disarmed them.
" Behan testified afterward that he'd only said he'd gone down to the Cowboys " for the purpose of disarming them ," not that he'd actually disarmed them.
When Behan said he had disarmed them, Virgil attempted to avoid a fight.
The article said that Behan " was standing near by commanding the contestants to cease firing but was powerless to prevent it.
Behan said he had been trying to persuade the Cowboys to give up their weapons and attempted to stop the Earps from confronting them.
Defense accounts contradicted the testimony of Behan, Claiborne and Allen, who all said that a man had fired a nickle-plated pistol first.
" Behan denied that he said anything resembling this.
Holliday said in 1882 that he thought Behan was behind the assassination of Morgan Earp.
Irish author Brendan Behan said that there is no such thing as bad publicity except dying in a toilet.
Behan said he could not leave his livery stable business for a wedding in San Francisco.
Josephine said years later that she lived with a lawyer while working as a housekeeper for Behan and his eight year-old son, Albert.
Behan and broke
At about dawn on October 26, the card game broke up and Behan and Virgil Earp went home to bed.
At about dawn on October 26, the card game broke up and Behan and Virgil Earp went home to bed.
Behan and Earp
Behan reneged on his deal with Earp and appointed prominent Democrat Harry Woods as undersheriff instead.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Virgil Earp, along with temporary federal deputies Wyatt and Morgan Earp, Wells Fargo agent Marshall Williams, former Kansas Sheriff Bat Masterson ( who was dealing faro at the Oriental Saloon ), and County Sheriff Behan set out to find the robbers.
Wyatt Earp and Cochise County sheriff Johnny Behan were interested in the same sheriff's office position, and also shared an interest in the same woman, Josephine Marcus.
Tombstone Marshal Virgil Earp played cards with Ike Clanton, Tom McLaury, Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan and a fifth man ( unknown to Ike and to history ), until morning.
Behan attempted to persuade Frank McLaury to give up his weapons, but Frank insisted that he would only give up his guns after City Marshal Virgil Earp and his brothers were disarmed.
As the wounded lawmen were carried to their homes, they passed in front of the Sheriff's Office, and Johnny Behan told Wyatt Earp he was under arrest.
By Williams ' account, Behan told Virgil Earp immediately after the gunfight a story that corroborated the Nugget report, before changing to the story Behan later told at the coroner's inquest.
Behan testified that the Earp group started shooting, but offered confusing testimony about who shot first.
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.
As late as June 1881, Josephine was still signing her name as " Josephine Behan " and Wyatt Earp was still living with his current common-law wife Mattie Blaylock.
It is not known exactly when Josephine left Behan, how Josephine and Wyatt Earp began their relationship, and when Earp and his current wife Mattie Blaylock ended their relationship.
It's possible that Behan and Earp knew of each other's attraction to the same woman before the gunfight at the O. K.
The embarrassment suffered by Behan was one of many factors that may have contributed animosity between Behan and Wyatt Earp and to the Gunfight at the O. K.
Numerous other events between Wyatt Earp and Ike Clanton, and others of the Clanton gang, actually sparked the gunfight ; the feud between Behan and Earp was little more than a side show.
LaRue also had the continuing role as Sheriff Johnny Behan on ABC's The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.
Behan and Wyatt
Doc Holliday, who had saved Wyatt Earp's life at one time and was a very close friend, had been living in Prescott and making a living as a gambler since late 1879, where he first met future Tombstone Sheriff and sometimes gambler Johnny Behan.
Shibell was unexpectedly reelected and he immediately appointed Democrat Johnny Behan as the new deputy sheriff for eastern Pima County, a job that Wyatt wanted.
This position was filled by a political appointment from the governor, and Wyatt and Behan both wanted the job.
Wyatt withdrew from the political contest and the governor and legislature appointed Behan to the job of Cochise County sheriff on February 10, 1881.
After he was passed over by Johnny Behan for the position of undersheriff, Wyatt thought he might beat him in the next Cochise County election in late 1882.
After Marcus left Behan, she and Wyatt at some point began a relationship, although it was never mentioned in contemporary accounts.
Behan single-handedly escorted Wyatt and Morgan there, but a phalanx of 12 heavily armed friends watched over them en route.
Known as " Sadie " to the public in 1881, she met Wyatt in the frontier boom town Tombstone, Arizona Territory when she was living with Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan.
Josephine returned to San Francisco after Wyatt left Tombstone, and Behan showed up in there in March, 1882, possibly still carrying a torch for Marcus.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Virgil Earp and his temporary deputies Wyatt and Morgan Earp, along with Bat Masterson, Wells Fargo agent Marshall Williams, and County Sheriff Johnny Behan set out to find the bandits.
After he was passed over by Johnny Behan for the position of undersheriff, Wyatt thought he might beat him in the next Cochise County election.
Behan and used
Behan testified he was concentrating on the Earps during the gun fight, but he did not see the shotgun used.
Behan, in his use of song and direct address to the audience, was influenced by Bertolt Brecht and Denis Johnston used modernist techniques including found texts and collage, but their works had little impact on the dramatists who came after them.
Theatre Workshop used improvisational theatre to develop performance, and the text was revised during production, in a collaboration between Behan, Littlewood and the cast.
In County Kerry, Behan or Behane was used interchangeably with Naughton.
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