This Day…

Posted on by Chris Enss

1881-Drunken Bill Johnson attempted to assassinate city marshal Dallas Stoudenmire with a shotgun in El Paso, Texas. Johnson’s blast missed completely because he was stewed as an owl. Stoudenmire and his brother-in-law, Doc Cummings, returned fire hitting Johnson eight times. He died on the spot. Johnson was former marshall Campbell’s deputy. He was sore about the rough treatment he got when stoudenmire fired him and took away his keys to the jail.