| |
| | Accommodations in NM - Wortley Pat garrett Hotel - Lincoln, New Mexico Territory. lodging, inn, near Roswell, Ruidoso, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | In fact, it was here that Deputy Marshal Robert Olinger was having lunch on April 28, 1881, the day that his famous prisoner, Billy the Kid, made his escape from the Lincoln County Courthouse. |
 | | Having heard the gunshot from the jail, Olinger quickly left the hotel to check on his prisoner, and was killed by Billy the Kid as he entered the side yard of the Court House. |
 | | Famous sheriff Pat Garrett was the owner of the Wortley Hotel when he was immortalized as the man who killed Billy the Kid. |
| www.wortleyhotel.com /new-mexico-hotel.htm (490 words) |
|