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The Luck of the Irish

by | Mar 1, 2021 | Features & Gunfights

GAMBLER JOHNNY MURPHY WAS THE FACE OF AN ICONIC WESTERN PHOTO. Eight months after the murder of notorious Irish gunfighter James Leavy in front of the Palace Hotel in Tucson, Arizona Territory, in 1882, professional gambler and fellow Irishman Johnny Murphy rose to make a statement upon his acquittal: Your honor, I thank you and the jury, but I desire to say that I have lived all my life on the frontier. I was honorably discharged from the navy, when a young man, on the coa


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