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Updated: June 8, 2025
And Johnny Behan, who was, if the truth be owned, a very easy-going peace officer indeed, bade his prisoner depart. He did not know and Goodrich did not know that on this occasion the bailing out of John Ringo was going to be something more than a mere formality. So it came about that a number of people met with surprises this same morning.
Somehow or other they had got mixed up with the stock-rustlers and the temptation to make easy money proved too strong for them. One evening they went over to the Contention mill and held up the place, killing the man in charge. Johnny Behan was out of town at the time with several deputies after the Earps who had departed from Tombstone.
Sheriff Behan was trying to get some good charge to bring against the brothers, and various lawyers some of them widely known throughout the Southwest were anxiously awaiting opportunity to appear as special prosecutors when the Benson stage was held up. The Benson stage had been robbed often enough before, but this time the crime brought far-reaching consequences.
Lawyers came into the town and henceforth provided a dead man's friends had money killing an opponent no longer settled a dispute. There remained such complications as indictment, sworn testimony, and the jury. The good old days were passing. Sheriff Johnny Behan charged the Earps with participation in robberies and wilful cognizance of murders.
Among those who greeted them was an uncle whom Paul had never seen, Mr. Peter Behan, a famous guide and one of the first who ever piloted a wagon train across the plains to California. The voyagers were tendered the freedom of the city and were hospitably entertained. Next morning the journey was resumed amid deafening plaudits.
He turned his back upon them and he recrossed the street, and when he had gained the opposite sidewalk they were gone within Bob Hatch's saloon. Johnny Behan was sheriff then, politically an enemy of the Earps and politically friendly to the outlaws.
"Heard there was some trouble about my being turned loose," he announced when he had roused the deputy from his slumbers, "and I didn't know but what maybe you'd lose your job if Johnny Behan got turned out of office."
For many things took place and many months went by before he reached down along his lean right thigh toward the butt of his forty-five single-action revolver. It is quite likely that Johnny Behan was among those who wanted the new deputy to give a demonstration of the stuff he was made of.
It was during this portion of the proceedings that Curly Bill, who had led the ambushing-party, learned whom the prisoners were seeking. He brought the news to John Ringo. "So it's me they're after," the outlaw said. "And it looks," said Curly Bill, "like Johnny Behan is in a mighty tight box, the way things has turned out."
Those who had banked on the big issue wherein Breckenbridge would smell the other man's powder-smoke were disappointed. And there were some among them who shook their heads when the young fellow's name was mentioned, saying, as they had said in the beginning: "Wait till the show-down comes; then we'll see how he stacks up." But Sheriff Johnny Behan was open in his rejoicings.
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