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Crime Pays?

by | Feb 7, 2019 | True West Blog

Marion Turner was a Lincoln County (NM) deputy and a gunman for the Murphy-Dolan faction.  When the Battle of Lincoln broke out in July 1878, Turner tried to deliver warrant to the Regulators holed up in the Alexander McSween house; he retreated when the inhabitants threatened him. But as the standoff ended, Turner allegedly was one of the men who killed an unarmed McSween.  He and compatriot John Joh


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