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Sep 6, 2022 · Paco Anaya, his brother-in-law, Iginio García, and several others then dressed Billy’s corpse in the new clothes. Word of Billy the Kid’s death had spread rapidly through the surrouning countryside, and Fort Sumner was soon inundated with the arrivals of Milnor Rudolph, Mike Cosgrove and others.
Aug 16, 2017 · “Many people stopped at Mr. Smith’s house,” A.P. Paco Anaya, a teenage contemporary of the Kid and son of sheep raiser Jesús Anaya, recalled in 1931. “Billy and his pals always ate at Mr. Smith’s restaurant.” It is the one place the Kid would most likely encounter an itinerant photographer.
- Richard Weddle
Another challenger to be covered in this article is a book called I Buried Billy, by A. P. “Paco” Anaya (Anaya, 1991). Anaya was a friend of Billy’s, around Billy’s age, and was in Ft. Sumner the day after the killing. He wrote the manuscript around 1931, but it wasn’t published until 1991.
One of the residents of Fort Sumner, ‘Paco’ Anaya, wrote that after the shooting, Garrett handed a piece of paper to Alejandro Segura, the Justice of the Peace. He had already written down the jury’s ‘verdict’ and asked Segura, Anaya and the rest of the jury to sign it.
Paco Anaya, 21, of Fort Sumner, knew Billy from about the time of his first appearance in there in August 1878. Along with Jesus Silva, Vincente Otero, and George Miller, Paco helped dig the grave and bury the Kid.
Paco Anaya discusses the reports made by Pat Garrett about the death of Billy the Kid. In the report, Paco notes that there are discrepancies with the verdict given by the coroner’s jury, as well as with the men who were part of it.
Paco Anaya (also spelled Analla) lived in Fort Sumner at the time Billy the Kid was supposedly killed and was apparently friends with him. He claimed to have served on the first coroner's jury that was assembled and that he helped bury the body.
