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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Sheriff Pat Garrett's hearse returns for display at Doña Ana County Sheriff's Office Historical Museum
The antique hearse, owned by the Woman's Improvement
Association until 1912, was recently purchased privately and then
donated to the Doña Ana County Sheriff's Department for permanent
installation in the Historical Museum of Lawmen, located inside the
lobby of the department's main headquarters at 845 N. Motel Boulevard in
Las Cruces.
After negotiations that spanned two decades, the
famous horse-drawn hearse that carried Sheriff Pat Garrett to his final
resting place in 1908 is back in Doña Ana County. Las Cruces resident Cal Traylor, a lifelong New Mexican and
history buff with a particular fondness for information related to the
murder of Pat Garrett, spearheaded the negotiations for the hearse and
subsequently donated it to the museum. Traylor spent the past 20 years working to acquire the
hearse, which was traced to an art museum in Pinos Altos, with the
intentions of returning it to Doña Ana County.
"It was simply misplaced at its former location in
Grant County," said Traylor, whose research concluded the Women's
Improvement Association sold the hearse to local farmer Hal Cox, who
converted it to a farm trailer until selling it to Grant County resident
and antique collector Frank Tatsch in 1935. Tatsch later restored the
hearse to its original condition and placed in the Piños Altos museum.
After Tatsch's death, the hearse was willed to his son, who sold the
hearse to Traylor...more
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