What happened to Tombstone Judge Wells Spicer?
Nick R. Chilton
Marion, Ohio
Judge Wells Spicer—who presided at the inquest into the O.K. Corral shoot-out—was yet another victim of the 1881 gunfight. He was plagued by bad luck and lost his money in a mining venture. He threatened to commit suicide in 1887, then he wandered off into the desert and disappeared. Author Lynn Bailey speculates the judge didn’t die in the desert and went to Mexico, where he died.
Since his body was neve
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