From: 3XL@dontemailme.com   
      
   In article <20040116004304.22985.00000072@mb-m04.aol.com>,   
   buggzzee23@aol.comspamsux says...   
      
   It makes another good story by another   
   attention-deprived fraud, unless he can prove that   
   he's capable of speaking with the dead!   
   The woman he claims to have spoken to   
   when he was 9 years old had been dead   
   for years in 1940 (63 years ago).   
      
   >Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- He still remembers the day a   
   >hot New Mexico afternoon, spent under shade trees sipping mint iced tea.   
   >   
   >Apolonaria Garrett, widow of Wild West sheriff Pat Garrett famous for shooting   
   >Billy the Kid walked toward 9-year-old Homer Overton with a Colt single action   
   >revolver.   
   >   
   >"Is that the gun Pat killed Billy the Kid with?" the boy asked.   
   >   
   >And he kept Apolonaria Garrett's reply a secret for 63 years until now.   
   >   
   >"Pat and Billy were like a father and son," Overton said she said. "Pat never   
   >killed Billy."   
   >   
   >With that bit of oral history, retired Rancho Cucamonga resident Homer Overton   
   >may help rewrite the legend of Billy the Kid.   
   >   
   >Sheriff Pat Garrett did not shoot the Kid, he believes. Rather, he conspired   
   >with Billy to shoot a drunk in his place, allowing Billy the Kid one last   
   >escape from the law.   
   >   
   >That's the story he heard as a child from Apolonaria Garrett.   
   >   
   >   
   >http://www.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,208~12588~1891805,00.html#   
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