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The Stage Holdup that Led to a Gunfight

by | Jun 5, 2018 | True West Blog

September 1881. Two masked gunmen held up the Sandy Bob stage headed from Tombstone to Bisbee. Cow-boys Pete Spence (in photo) and Frank Stilwell were arrested. The incident inflamed the clash between the Cow-boys and the Earp faction; Wyatt and Virgil Earp were in the posse that arrested the pair. Charges were eventually dropped, but Spence and Stilwell were rearrested on October 13 by Virgil Ear


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