[DL] Billy the Kid

["Justin Baldwin" <innovmr@hotmail.com>]

I ran across this story from the Associated Press and thought you guys might 
like it. What I love about the Deadlands universe is that Billy the Kid 
could represent himself


Posted on Wed, Nov. 19, 2003
Lawyer appointed for Billy the Kid
Associated Press


SANTA FE - Gov. Bill Richardson has appointed a lawyer to represent the 
legal interests of dead outlaw Billy the Kid.

Richardson appointed Santa Fe lawyer Bill Robins to act on Billy the Kid's 
behalf in the effort to determine the truth about the outlaw.

Robins' work is voluntary, Richardson said.

"There's no state money being expended," Richardson's spokesman Billy Sparks 
said Tuesday.

Robins, a self-described history buff, said he's excited about representing 
Billy the Kid, whose real name is William H. Bonney.

"I think Billy should have gotten a pardon a long time ago by (territorial 
Gov.) Lew Wallace, so I'm going to be advocating that the governor pardon 
the Kid," Robins said. "He was the only person who was ever convicted out of 
the Lincoln County Wars, when there were people shot on both sides and it 
was hard to tell who the good guys were."

But first, Robins will have to intervene in a Silver City case to exhume the 
body of Billy the Kid's mother, Catherine Antrim.

Lincoln County Sheriff Tom Sullivan, Capitan Mayor Steve Sederwall and De 
Baca County Sheriff Gary Graves have petitioned the Grant County District 
Court to order the exhumation.

They argue DNA testing would show whether Antrim was related to Ollie L. 
"Brushy Bill" Roberts, who died in 1950 in his hometown of Hico, Texas, 
proclaiming he was Billy the Kid. Fort Sumner residents believe the famous 
Kid is buried in their town.

Sullivan and the Silver City Mayor Terry Fortenberry are at odds over the 
effort.

Fortenberry opposes the exhumation.

Robins said he will appear on Billy the Kid's behalf at a Dec. 8 court 
hearing in Silver City to determine if Fortenberry has legal standing in the 
case.

Another hearing is scheduled for Jan. 6 to determine whether the exhumation 
can be conducted.

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