NAMES IN THE NEWS : No Pardon for Billy the Kid
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SANTA FE, N.M. — Gov. Garrey E. Carruthers has rejected a writer’s request that Billy the Kid be pardoned for his role in the 1878 shooting death of Sheriff William Brady.
A letter is being prepared telling Las Cruces author Opal Lee Priestley of the governor’s decision, B. J. Wagner-Adam, the governor’s administrator of pardons and extraditions, said Thursday. Priestley is the author of “Billy the Kid: The Good Side of a Bad Man.”
Wagner-Adam said a full investigation of all facts surrounding the case would be impossible because it happened so long ago.
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