This Day…

1878 – McSween Regulators, headed by Dick Brewer, tried to arrest Buckshot Roberts at Blazer’s Mill, New Mexico.  Roberts was gravely wounded by Charlie Bowdre in the gunplay, but managed to wound George Coe and John Middleton and kill Brewer with a head shot.  The Regulators abandoned the fight to seek care for Middleton and Coe.  Roberts was left to expire at the mill and was buried beside Brewer.