How was Morgan Earp killed?
Ron Lervold
Chandler, Arizona
In Tombstone, Arizona, on March 18, 1882, an assassin fired a rifle through the back door window of Bob Hatch and John Campbell’s saloon, killing Morgan Earp while he was playing a game of billiards. The first shot hit Morgan in the spine, and the second hit the wall near where his brother Wyatt was sitting.
Frank Stilwell was one of the men fingered as the killer, and Wyatt killed him in the Tucson train yard on March 20.
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