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Virgil and Morgan
The gunfight, believed to have lasted only about thirty seconds, was fought between the outlaw Cowboys Billy Clanton, Tom McLaury and his brother Frank McLaury, and the opposing lawmen Virgil Earp and his brothers Morgan and Wyatt Earp, aided by Doc Holliday acting as a temporary deputy of Virgil.
Lawmen Holliday and Morgan and Virgil Earp were wounded.
On December 28, 1881, Virgil Earp was maimed in an assassination attempt by the outlaw Cowboys, and on March 18, 1882, they assassinated Morgan Earp.
James, Virgil, Wyatt, Morgan, and Warren Earp were a tight-knit family who had worked and served together as deputy marshal, marshal, sheriff, and saloon owners in several towns, among other occupations, and had moved together from location to location.
Hurst brought four soldiers, and Virgil invited Wyatt and Morgan Earp, as well as Wells Fargo agent Marshall Williams.
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.
Ike Clanton later testified at the Spicer hearing that Doc Holliday, Virgil Earp, Wyatt Earp, and Morgan Earp had all confided in him that they had actually been involved in the stage robbery.
While Wyatt and Virgil were in Tucson for the federal hearing on the charges against Spence and Stilwell, Frank McLaury confronted Morgan Earp.
At about 1: 00 pm, Virgil and Morgan Earp surprised Ike on 4th Street where Virgil buffaloed ( pistol-whipped ) him from behind.
He said Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan offered him his rifle and to fight him right there in the courthouse, which Ike declined.
Only Virgil or one of his city police deputies, including Morgan Earp and possibly Warren Earp, could search him and take any required action.
Wyatt spoke of his brothers Virgil and Morgan as the " marshals " while he acted as " deputy.
" William Clanton, Frank and Thomas McLaury, came to their deaths in the town of Tombstone on October 26, 1881, from the effects of pistol and gunshot wounds inflicted by Virgil Earp, Morgan Earp, Wyatt Earp, and one — Holliday, commonly called ' Doc Holliday '.
Morgan and Virgil were still recovering at home.
Ike also claimed that Doc Holliday and Morgan, Wyatt, and Virgil Earp had separately confessed to him their role in the Benson stage holdup, or else the cover-up of the robbery by allowing the robbers ' escape.
Virgil left Tombstone for California after Morgan was killed.
When the Cowboys maimed Virgil and murdered Morgan, Wyatt's actions in taking revenge captured people's attention.
Corral ), the Earp brothers ( Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil and James ) are driving cattle to California when they cross the Clanton family led by the " Old Man ".
The Earp brothers — Virgil, Wyatt, Morgan and Warren Earp — arrived in December 1879 and the summer of 1880.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Sheriff Virgil Earp and his temporary deputies and brothers Wyatt Earp and Morgan Earp pursued the Cowboys suspected of the murders.
They bought shares in the Vizina mine, water rights, and gambling concessions, but Virgil, Morgan and Wyatt were soon appointed as federal and local marshals.
In the aftermath, Virgil Earp was maimed in an ambush and Morgan Earp was assassinated while playing billiards.

Virgil and remained
In the Renaissance, the Silvae thanks to Poliziano helped inspire an entire genre of collections of miscellaneous, occasional poetry called Sylvae which remained popular throughout the period, inspiring works by Hugo Grotius and John Dryden, Dante mentions Statius in De vulgari eloquentia along with Ovid, Virgil and Lucan as one of the four regulati poetae ( ii, vi, 7 ).
Wyatt and his deputies had initially planned to travel only as far as Benson, but when they learned that Stilwell and others were looking for Virgil, they remained with Virgil and Allie through to Tucson.
Virgil then remained in the undercard until he left the company in mid-1994.
However, two of those belts ( WBA and IBF ) had been stripped from Dariusz Michalczewski, who had unified them with his WBO title by beating the Lineal champion Virgil Hill in June 1997, and subsequently remained unbeaten, defending his remaining belt until 2004.

Virgil and throughout
Virgil seems to have suffered bad health throughout his life and in some ways lived the life of an invalid.
Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run is presented in documentary-style with Allen playing a fictional criminal, Virgil Starkwell, whose crime exploits are " explored " throughout the film.
These innovations were to have a profound influence not only on Roman poets, most notably Virgil in his epic poem on the founding of Rome, The Aeneid, but one that flourished throughout Europe.
After a brief sojourn in France they were prominent among the literary figures of New York throughout the 1940s, with Paul working under Virgil Thomson as a music critic at the New York Herald Tribune.
Virgil held a variety of jobs throughout his life, though he primarily worked in law enforcement.
Although Virgil Carter did share time with Anderson at times throughout the year.
The style caught on throughout Detroit and eventually led to competition between Harley Earl and Virgil Exner over the size and complexity of tailfins, culminating with those on the 1959 Cadillac models.
The poem takes Virgil as its primary stylistic and dramatic inspiration throughout the poem ; from its opening, the Punica is configured as the continuation of Juno's grudge against Rome developed in the Aeneid.
Roberts returned and feuded with DiBiase throughout the end of 1989 into 1990, including a point where Roberts stole DiBiase's Million Dollar Belt, daring him or Virgil to reach into the canvas sack to retrieve it.

Virgil and trial
Wyatt said in his deposition afterward that he had been temporarily acting as city marshal for Virgil the week before while Virgil was in Tucson for the Pete Spence and Frank Stilwell trial.
Virgil Earp was suspended as town marshal pending the outcome of the trial.
More than 60 former dignitaries or officials were executed in Jilava prison while awaiting trial ; historian and former prime minister Nicolae Iorga and economist Virgil Madgearu, also a former government minister, were assassinated without even the pretense of an arrest.
" For some time, the Earps, Doc Holiday, Tom Fitch and others who upheld and defended the Earps in their late trial have received, almost daily, anonymous letters, warning them to leave town or suffer death, supposed to have been written by friends of the Clanton and McLowry boys, three of whom the Earps and Holliday killed and little attention was paid to them as they were believed to be idle boasts but the shooting of Virgil Earp last night shows that the men were in earnest.
After his brother Virgil was maimed in an ambush and Morgan was assassinated by hidden assailants, the men suspected of involvement were provided alibis by fellow Cowboys and released without trial.
In footage of the trial, Ceauşescu is seen answering the " tribunal " judging him and referring to some of its members — among them Army General Victor Atanasie Stanculescu and future Romanian Secret Service head Virgil Măgureanu — as " traitors ".
During the second trial nine men were charged ; in addition to David Matthews, Jerry Smith, Jack Fowler, six other men, Virgil Griffin, Eddie Dawson, Wayne Wood, Roy Toney, Coleman Blair Pridmore, and Rayford Milano Caudle were charged with other crimes associated with the event.

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