George R. Matthews
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318 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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He had stolen some butter in Silver City earlier in 1875 and was just given a warning by the sheriff.
And then he was found to be an accessory to hiding the goods from a robbery and put in jail for that.
And his delinquency...
It was pretty mild.
I mean, it wasn't any big deal.
If he had stayed in Silver City, he probably would have been exonerated as an accessory to a robbery and would have been fine.
But he chose to escape and go to Arizona.
where again, he took that name, Henry Antrim.
When he comes back to New Mexico from Arizona to Lincoln County in the fall of 1877, he is known as Henry Antrim or Kid Antrim,
And at that time, he has killed his first man.
So he adopts the alias in the fall of 1877 in Lincoln County as William H. Bonney.
Okay.
Now, the question is, why did he become William H. Bonney?
And he probably adopts an alias because he's killed a man in Arizona and wants to adopt another identity.
Plus, he had also ridden with the Jesse Evans gang for a short time.
And once he's hired in New Mexico, Lincoln County, with John Tunstall, John Henry Tunstall, he may have wanted to adopt an alias for that reason.
He was a reader of dime novels.
And one of the best-selling dime novels of the day, called Banditti of the Prairies,
was written by one Edward Bonney.
And it is likely, his mother's maiden name was not Bonney, by the way.
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