Hi Jan here is your story: On July 26 1878 about 3 O'clock three or four herders were paying their respects to the city and instituions, and as is usually their custom, remained until about 3 O'clock in the morning,when they prepared to return to their camps. They bucked on their revolvers, which they were not allowed to wear around town,and mounted their horses when all at once one of them conceived the idea to do some shooting, and forth with he commenced to bang away. Policeman
Earp and [James]
Masterson made a raid on the shootist who gave them two or three volleys, but fortunately without effect, the policeman returned the fire and followed the herders with the intention of arresting them. The herders rode across the bridge followed by the officers. A few yards from the bridge one of the herders fell from his horse frome weakness caused by a wound in the arm which he had received during the fracas. The wound which proved to be a bad one,was dressed. His name is George
Hoy, and he is rather an intelligent looking young man.
The
Ford County Globe, August 21,1887:
On Wendnesday last, George
Hoy,the young Texan who was wounded some weeks since in the midnight scrimmage, died from the effects of his wound. George was apparently rather a good young man,having those chivalrous qualities, so common to frontiersmen, well developed. He was, at the time of his death, under a bound of $1,500 for his appearance in
Texas on account of some cattle scrape, wherein he was charged with aiding and assisting some other men in "rounding up" about 1,000 head of cattle which were claimed by other parties. He had many friends and no enemies among
Texas men who knew him.George was nothing but a poor cow boy, but his brother cow-boys permitted him to want for nothing during his illness, and buried him in grand style when dead, which was very creditable to them. We have been informed by those who pretend to know, that the deceased, although under bond for a misdemeanor in
Texas,was in no wise a criminal, and would have been released at the next setting of the court if he had not been removed by death from it's jurisdicton. "Let his faults,if he had any,be hidden in the grave."