1. Pete Spence was first suspected of robbery in 1878 in Goliad County, Texas.
17 Facts About Pete Spence
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Pete Spence was suspected of stealing mules and later a suspect in a stagecoach robbery outside Bisbee, Arizona.
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Pete Spence was reported as having been born in Louisiana in 1850.
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Pete Spence was one of a number of outlaws from Texas who sought sanctuary on the American frontier and the wild west.
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In Tombstone, Arizona Territory, Pete Spence lived immediately across the street from the Earps in a house which still stands in Tombstone.
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In October, 1880 Pete Spence was charged with grand larceny on a charge of possessing stolen Mexican mules, but was not convicted.
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Pete Spence was a business partner of Frank Stilwell in the Franklin Mine and other mining ventures, and in a Bisbee saloon.
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Stilwell was in jail in Tucson on these federal charges on the day of the gunfight on October 26,1881, but Pete Spence had been released several days before.
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Pete Spence's husband had threatened her with violence if she told what she knew.
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When she was called to testify at Pete Spence's preliminary hearing, the defense objected because her testimony was hearsay and because a spouse could not testify against her husband.
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Pete Spence owned a ranch and woodcutting camp at South Pass in the Dragoon Mountains, where he employed Indian Charlie Cruz.
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In June 1883, Pete Spence was working as a deputy sheriff in Georgetown, New Mexico, when he severely pistol-whipped Rodney O'Hara, killing him.
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Pete Spence was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a five-year term in the Arizona Territorial Penitentiary.
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Pete Spence operated a goat ranch south of Globe, Arizona near the Galiuro Mountains with his long-time friend, Phin Clanton, and ran mule teams to bring supplies into the Globe area.
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Phin Clanton died in 1906, and Pete Spence married Phin's widow four years later on April 2,1910, using his real name of Elliot Larkin Ferguson.
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Pete Spence died in 1914 and is buried in the Globe, Arizona cemetery, in an unmarked plot next to Phin Clanton.
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Pete Spence was played by Michael Tolan in Hour of the Gun, and by Kirk Fox in Wyatt Earp.