European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Where is Billy the kid buried cum Magazine two towns claim his Bones by de Moreno associated press he ghost of Billy the kid the notorious old Wesl outlaw shot to death by a Tamer mend at age 21, is provoking a tend Between he Liny towns Over his Bones. Wei it s no the kind of Range War and Bun Lithung that put sheriff pal Garrett on the Trail of William Bonney in the 18809, but civic Pride is Al slake As we As tourist dollars fort Sumner n.m., or years has advertised thai Billy the kid and a couple of his pals Are buried there. Not so says a action in the Texas town of Hico claiming a cover tip by their new Mexico neighbors. The real kid lived to a Ripe old age in their town they say. Ii Rico prevails fort Sumner is Likely to lose a lot of Money. By � the big Money maker Here says Jelf Wooten director of the Forl Sumner stale Monument an old army tort which attracts some 2.000 to 3.000 tourists a month most of whom want to see where the kid is buried. Don Sweet who owns the Billy the kid museum on the main Street in own. Agrees. We be made some efforts to do some other things but hat s kind of  Sweet says. Primarily hero in town h s fishy the kid. Then there s farming and ranching and that la about do  the people of fort Sumner befriended Bonney when he was on the run irom the Law. Having killed two guards and escaped from the Lincoln county jail where he was under a death sentence for killing two lawmen during a bloody Range War in the t370s. He was the classic kind of  says Bob Parsons a native and prominent historian of the Eastern new Mexico Community o about 1,400 people he explained that Many people considered the kid a kind of Robin Hood of the wild West. In later years the townsfolk of fort Sumner look quiet pleasure in the presence of the kid William Cnney or kid Antrim or Henry Mccarty or whatever his  really was