When Doc Holliday reached Colorado near the end of April 1882, he was certain that he was safe. He openly told reporters that he and the rest of Wyatt Earp’s posse would never be prosecuted because of arrangements with Arizona authorities.
He most likely would have been right had a two-bit con man named Perry Mallon not “arrested” him on a trumped up charge in Denver.
The arrest gave local officials in Arizona who were not parties to the arrangement an opportunity to demand extra
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