Aftermath and Burial
Arrest warrants were immediately issued for the five men in the Earp party that had not proceeded on the train from Tucson with Virgil Earp (who was clearly too weak and crippled to have participated in the shooting) and his wife. Warrants were issued for Wyatt Earp, Warren Earp. Doc Holliday, Jack Johnson (posseman), and Sherman McMasters. The Earps claimed in news interviews while in Colorado that Stillwell had resisted arrest. They resisted extradition to Arizona Territory, and in the end Colorado refused to extradite them, so they were never tried for the killing.
Stilwell was originally buried in the old Tucson City cemetery, but when the cemetery was moved, most of the residents were reburied in a mass grave in the Evergreen Cemetery in Tucson.
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