Two's Company in 1909. And a Shooting in New Mexico.

            The Postcard

A postcard that was published by the Davidson Brothers of London and New York. The image is a glossy real photograph, and the card was printed in England.

Note the man is smoking a cigarette.

The card was posted in Ashford on Tuesday the 4th. May 1909 to:

Mr. Percy Harmer,
64, Providence Street,
Ashford,
Kent.

The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

"From one who loves
you, but is unknown.
Love & best wishes".

-- Percy Harmer

There are 20 cards on this photostream addressed to Percy Harmer. Percy must have been a stamp collector, because out of the 20 cards, 13 of them have unusually had their stamp removed.

--  The Death of Percy Harmer

Sadly Percy did not survive the Great War:

Frederick Percy Harmer was born in Ashford, Kent in 1896. He served in the British Army as a private in the King's Royal Rifle Corps.

Percy died of wounds in France at the age of 20 on the 19th. October 1916.

Percy's name is recorded along with sixty others on the Great War Memorial in Christ Church, South Ashford, Kent.

Percy's family obviously continued to keep the postcards that had been set to him before the Great War, and they are still all together, in my collection.

Tony Malfeti

So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?

Well, on the 4th. May 1909, the body of Tony Malfeti was found. He had been kidnapped on the 14th. March 1909.

Wayne Brazel

Also on that day, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Wayne Brazel was acquitted of the February 29th. 1908 murder of Pat Garrett. 

The trial had begun on April 19, and the jury took 15 minutes to reach the verdict that Brazel, who fired his shot while Garrett was urinating, had acted in self-defence.

Garrett's body was too tall for any finished coffins available, so a special one had to be shipped in from El Paso. His funeral service was held March 5, 1908, and he was laid to rest next to his daughter, Ida, who had died in 1896 at the age of fifteen. Garrett's grave and the graves of his descendants are in the Masonic Cemetery, Las Cruces.

The site of Garrett's death is commemorated by a historical marker south of U.S. Route 70, between Las Cruces and the San Augustin Pass. 

The historical marker is located about 1.2 miles from where Garrett was murdered. In 1940 his son, Jarvis Garrett, marked the spot with a monument consisting of concrete laid around a stone with a cross carved in it. 

The cross is believed to be the work of Garrett's mother. Scratched in the concrete is "P. Garrett" and the date of his killing. The marker is located in the desert. 

In 2020, the city of Las Cruces revealed plans for a development that would destroy the site. An organization called Friends of Pat Garrett has been formed to ensure that the city preserves the site and marker.

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