- Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain
Out-going New Mexico Governor Richardson is considering pardoning Billy the Kid, 130 years after he committed a murder most foul. My ancestor, Col. Albert Fountain, defended the Kid at his trial and if he couldn’t get him off, then the Colonel was having a rare bad day or the Kid was guilty as hell. I suspect the latter.
Fountain and his seven-year-old son Henry were later murdered in 1896 in the White Sands. New Mexico was a rough place back then.
“Fountain’s Radical Republican views angered Texas Democrats, and he was challenged to several duels”.
Wow. Could it be genetic?
Has to be.