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James W. Bell
James W. Bell (1841/1853-28 April 1881), also referred to as "Long" Bell, "Lone" Bell or Jim Long,[3][4] was a Deputy Sheriff of the United States Marshals Service.
He was shot and killed by Billy the Kid during his escape from Lincoln County jail on 28 April 1881.[6]
Biography
Bell was born in Georgia in 1853 with both father from Virginia, but some historians claimed he was born in Maryland in 1841.[4] He was a miner[7] and Texas Ranger.[8] It is also claimed he was a private in Company D., Frontier Battalion, of Captain Dan W.
Roberts,[3][4][9] but according to Bill Reynolds he was Joseph William Bell, who was born on 17 May 1849 in Ohio.
On 13 December 1873 he enlisted as private in G. W.
Campbell's Montague County Rangers and was discharged on 13 February 1877. In the spring of 1879 Oscar W. Williams, Bell's mining companion, organized a mining party from Dall