Ike’s death threats against all the Earps got under Wyatt’s skin during the hearing. There Ike’s weapons stayed through the gunfight which followed. Virgil, ever the calm city peace officer, told Ike he’d leave Ike’s confiscated rifle and revolver at the Grand Hotel (a favorite of the Cowboys when in town) and he did so. When Judge Wallacearrived, Ike Clanton was fined $25 plus court costs, and left sometime after 1 P.M., unarmed. The Earps then took Clanton to court for violating the city’s ordinance against carrying firearms after arrival in the city.īefore the hearing which followed almost immediately, and while Virgil was out looking for the judge, Ike, Morgan, and Wyatt traded death-threats with Wyatt finally matching Ike in dangerous language. ![]() Not long after noon, Virgil and Morgan Earp (who had been bothered in their sleep by various people reporting Ike Clanton’s threats) came up behind Clanton on 4th Street, grabbed Clanton’s rifle, and gun-whipped Ike. By later in the morning Ike had reacquired both his rifle and revolver, having gotten them (so he testified later) from the West End Corral, where the wagon was and where weapons brought into the city by Ike and Tom the day before should by law have been left.īy noon on Wednesday, October 26, Ike was publicly bar-hopping while fully armed, still saying he was looking for Holliday or an Earp. For some reason neither of them rented a room to get sleep. Tom McLaury and Ike Clanton were still awake, with nothing to do. In the morning, around dawn at about 6 or 7 A.M., the card game broke up and Behan and Virgil Earp went home to bed. ![]() ![]() Ike Clanton later testified that Virgil sat through the game with a revolver on his lap, which caused Ike to be upset. In the small hours of the morning of the 26th, Clanton was confronted by Holliday who walked into the 24-hour “lunch-counter” where Clanton was eating, and tried to provoke Clanton into drawing his gun the reasons for this confrontation would vary by the witness. Morgan Earp had gone to get him for the trouble with the Cowboys which he saw coming. The previous weekend Holliday had been out of town, gambling at a fiesta celebration in Tucson. Virgil Earp, the City Marshal (Chief of Police), in order to try to calm things down overnight, spent the night playing a long card game with Ike Clanton, Tom McLaury, Cochise County sheriff Johnny Behan and a fourth man unknown to Ike Clanton and to history. Some accounts claim that Ike Clanton ended up threatening Doc Holliday and all the Earps, as soon as he was armed, while other accounts claim that it was Holliday that threatened Clanton. However, no arrests were made Virgil threatened to arrest Doc and Ike if they didn’t stop, and finally Wyatt got Doc in hand and took him back to his boarding house to sleep it off. Wyatt and Morgan Earp watched the confrontation, and Wyatt suggested that Morgan, as a city police officer, do something about it. ![]() That evening, shortly after midnight, Clanton had a verbal run-in with Doc Holliday and Morgan Earp. They were in town to get supplies, and rode in a spring wagon (a light horse-team drawn wagon, often with removable seats to increase cargo-carrying area), arriving about 11 A.M. On Tuesday October 25, 1881, Ike Clanton and Tom McLaury drove the 10 miles into Tombstone from Chandler’s Milk Ranch at the foot of the Dragoon Mountains. Satellite View: Hills of Eternity Cemetery, Colma, CA
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