Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan, a friend to the Cowboys, later testified that he first learned of the trouble while he was getting a shave at the barbershop after 1: 30 pm, which is when he had risen after the late-night game.

Virgil testified later that Behan told them, " For God's sake, don't go down there or they will murder you!

" 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.

William Cuddy testified that Ike passed him on Allen Street and Johnny Behan saw him a few minutes later on Tough Nut Street.

Behan testified that when he searched Tom McLaury for a weapon prior to the gunfight, he was not thorough, and that Tom might have had a pistol hidden in his waistband.

Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan testified on the third day of the hearing.

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

Behan testified he was concentrating on the Earps during the gun fight, but he did not see the shotgun used.

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.

Sheriff Johnny Behan later testified that the incident had angered Ike Clanton.

Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan, a friend to the Cowboys, later testified that he first learned of the trouble while he was getting a shave at the barbershop after 1: 30 pm, which is when he had risen after the late-night game.

Behan reneged on his deal with Earp and appointed prominent Democrat Harry Woods as undersheriff instead.

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.

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.

At about dawn on October 26, the card game broke up and Behan and Virgil Earp went home to bed.

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.

Holliday said in 1882 that he thought Behan was behind the assassination of Morgan Earp.

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.

The Earps saw the Cowboys and Sheriff Behan, who left the group and came toward them, though he looked nervously backward several times.

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.

The episode concluded that the three eyewitnesses for the prosecution ( Sheriff Behan, Ike Clanton and Billy Clairborn ) likely offered perjured testimony.

The Nugget staff had a close relationship with Sheriff Behan, but his story as quoted in the Nugget the day after the shootout backed up the Earp's version of events, which varied widely from Behan's and the Cowboys ' later court testimony.

'" In his testimony, Behan repeatedly insisted he told the Earps that he only intended to disarm the Cowboys, not that he had actually done so.

Defense accounts contradicted the testimony of Behan, Claiborne and Allen, who all said that a man had fired a nickle-plated pistol first.

These witnesses ' testimony, especially that of H. F. Sills, a disinterested party, discredited much of the testimony given by Sheriff Johnny Behan, Ike Clanton and the other Cowboy witnesses.

According to Shane MacGowan, amongst the reasons of the breakup was disagreement concerning the political orientation of his songs, the band not wanting to sing too obvious pro-republican songs — though some of their previous songs were already politically engaged: for instance, Streams of Whiskey is about the poet and IRA member Brendan Behan.

Subsequent stories about the gunfight published in the Nugget after that day supported Behan and the Cowboys ' view of events.

Behan tended to ignore the Earp's complaints about the McLaury's and Clanton's horse thieving and cattle rustling.

These shows consisted of stories about people such as Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh and Seán O ' Casey, as well as Ronnie singing their songs.

At about dawn on October 26, the card game broke up and Behan and Virgil Earp went home to bed.

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.

He played a role in the creation of the current form of the well known folksong " Carrickfergus " which he related to Dominic Behan, who put it in print and made a recording in the mid-1960s.

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.

The ranchers largely maintained control of the country around Tombstone, due in large part to the sympathetic support of Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan who favored the Cowboys and rural ranchers and who grew to intensely dislike the Earps.

The Earps found witnesses who could attest to Holliday's location at the time of the murders and Kate sobered up, revealing that Behan and Joyce had influenced her to sign a document she didn't understand.

Notable men who once held the position of County Sheriff were Johnny Behan, who served as the first sheriff of the new county, and who was one of the main characters during the events leading to and following the Gunfight at the O. K.

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.

Kearney was born at this address, and by trade became a house painter and theatre set decorator, as too did become his more famous nephew, the playwright Brendan Behan, who also lived nearby at Russell Street.

Unlike contemporary peace officers, these lawmen generally pursued other occupations, often earning money as gamblers, business owners, or outlaws — as was the case with " Curly " Bill Brocius, who, while always referred to as an outlaw, served as a deputy sheriff under sheriff Johnny Behan.

The story is told in the first person by Billy " Bathgate " Behan, a fifteen-year-old boy who first becomes the gofer and then surrogate son of mobster Dutch Schultz.

Other singers who sang it in the 50s / 60s were Dominic Behan and Anne Briggs.

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.

He was spotted by Billy Behan, a Manchester United scout, who reported to United manager Dave Sexton, and Moran signed for Manchester United in 1978.

Behan also took issue with the Clancy Brothers, who chose not to sing the verses which sanctioned the murders of Irish police officers or which criticized Éamon de Valera:

The Earps found witnesses who could attest to Holliday's location at the time of the murders and Kate sobered up, revealing that Behan and Joyce had influenced her to sign a document she didn't understand.

Amongst those was Professor Peter O ' Behan who examined Bland on behalf of the Official Solicitor.