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Behan and escorted
Behan and Williams escorted King back to Tombstone.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After Marcus left Behan, she and Wyatt at some point began a relationship, although it was never mentioned in contemporary accounts.
" Wyatt said Behan told him and Morgan, " I have disarmed them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Morgan
Holliday said in 1882 that he thought Behan was behind the assassination of Morgan Earp.
Corral, in which Billy Clanton ( Church ), Frank McLaury ( Burke ), and Tom McLaury are killed, Virgil and Morgan are wounded, and the allegiance of county sheriff Johnny Behan ( Tenney ) to the Cowboys is made clear.

Behan and there
During its lifetime Hotel Chelsea has provided a home to many great writers and thinkers including Mark Twain, O. Henry, Herbert Huncke, Dylan Thomas, Arthur C. Clarke, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Arnold Weinstein, Leonard Cohen, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Arthur Miller, Quentin Crisp, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac ( who wrote On the Road there ), Robert Hunter, Jack Gantos, Brendan Behan, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Wolfe, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Kennedy, Matthew Richardson, James T. Farrell, Valerie Solanas, Mary Cantwell, and René Ricard.
Virgil testified later that Behan told them, " For God's sake, don't go down there or they will murder you!
Irish author Brendan Behan said that there is no such thing as bad publicity except dying in a toilet.

Behan and 12
* 12 November-Billy Behan, soccer player and scout ( born 1911 ).

Behan and friends
Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan deputized Ringo and 19 other men, many of them Cowboys and friends of Frank Stilwell.
Behan later became close friends with Sean Garland, officiating as the best man at Garland's wedding.

Behan and watched
Behan testified that from the time the Earps passed him by to confront the Cowboys, he had watched them closely.

Behan and over
The story depicts a young, fervently idealistic Behan, who loses his naïveté over the three years of his sentence to a juvenile borstal, softening his radical Republican stance and warming to his fellow British prisoners.
Derry-born James Patrick ( Jim ) McGuinness, who was editor from 1953 until 1957, brought in journalists such as Benedict Kiely, Seán White, and also Brendan Behan as a columnist when White left over a dispute with management ; White later became head of news at broadcaster RTÉ.

Behan and them
The Earps saw the Cowboys and Sheriff Behan, who left the group and came toward them, though he looked nervously backward several times.
" 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.
Behan said he had been trying to persuade the Cowboys to give up their weapons and attempted to stop the Earps from confronting them.
This, coupled with pressure from a group around leading industrial activist Brian Behan, led them to form the Socialist Labour League in 1959, independent and for the first time openly Trotskyist, although still with most of its members in the Labour Party.
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.
The list of contributors to The Bell included many of Ireland's foremost writers, among them Patrick Kavanagh, Patrick Swift, Flann O ' Brien, Frank O ' Connor and Brendan Behan.
Sadie Mansfield and Johnny Behan remained in the same town through at least 1880, when the U. S. census recorded them both in Tip Top, Arizona Territory.
He sent her $ 300 for the return trip but rather than leaving Tombstone, Behan convinced Josephine to use the money to build a house for them.

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