Bounty hunters and thief takers 2

BOTH SIDES OF THE LAW

Jonathan Wild was one of London’s most ruthless and powerful criminals. He also brought criminals to justice. Calling himself the "Thief Taker General of Great Britain and Ireland," he used a vast network of criminal informers to become the most famous thief taker London had ever known. He even sent some of his fellow criminals to the gallows. Wild was hanged in 1725, at the age of 43.




BILLY THE KID Billy

 the Kid never went to school. Born in New York City in 1859, he was brought up on the legend of Jesse James .He became a gambler, a rustler (a cattle and horse thief), and a killer. Billy's real name is believed to be William H. Bonney.
Before he died he still wore his sunglasses.




TRACKER

In 1880, Patrick Floyd Garrett, the sheriff of Lincoln County,

New Mexico, captured the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid, The Kid escaped from jail but not from Garrett, who tracked him for three months and finally shot him dead at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, in July 1881.