Editing Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (section)

==== Cowboys accuse Holliday of robbery ====
Milt Joyce, a [[county supervisor]] and owner of the Oriental Saloon, had a contentious relationship with [[Doc Holliday]]. In October 1880, Holliday had trouble with a [[gambler]] named Johnny Tyler in Milt Joyce's Oriental Saloon. Tyler had been hired by a competing gambling establishment to drive customers from Joyce's saloon.<ref name="historynetgambler"/> Holliday challenged Tyler to a fight, but Tyler ran. Joyce did not like Holliday or the Earps and he continued to argue with Holliday. Joyce ordered Holliday removed from the saloon but would not return Holliday's revolver. But Holliday returned carrying a double-action revolver. Milt brandished a pistol and threatened Holliday, but Holliday shot Joyce in the palm, disarming him, and then shot Joyce's business partner William Parker in the big toe. Joyce then hit Holliday over the head with his revolver.<ref>''The Daily Nugget'', October 12, 1880</ref> Holliday was arrested and pleaded guilty to assault and battery.<ref name="historynetdoc">{{cite web|url=http://www.historynet.com/doc-holliday.htm|title=Doc Holliday|access-date=February 8, 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006175447/http://www.historynet.com/doc-holliday.htm|archive-date=October 6, 2011}}</ref>

Holliday and his on-again, off-again mistress [[Big Nose Kate]] had many fights. After a particularly nasty, drunken argument, Holliday kicked her out. [[County Sheriff]] John Behan and Milt Joyce saw an opportunity and exploited the situation. They plied Big Nose Kate with more booze and suggested to her a way to get even with Holliday. She signed an [[affidavit]] implicating Holliday in the attempted stagecoach robbery and murders. Holliday was a good friend of Bill Leonard, a former [[watchmaker]] from [[New York City|New York]], one of three men implicated in the robbery.<ref name=weir>{{Cite book | last1=Weir | first1=William | title=History's Greatest Lies: the Startling Truths Behind World Events our History Books Got Wrong | year=2009 | publisher=Fair Winds Press | location=Beverly, MA | isbn=978-1-59233-336-3 | page=288}}</ref>{{rp|181|date=November 2012}} [[Judge]] [[Wells Spicer]] issued an [[arrest warrant]] for Holliday. The Earps found [[witness]]es who could attest to Holliday's location at the time of the murders and Kate sobered up, revealing that Behan and Joyce had influenced her to sign a document she did not understand. With the Cowboy [[Conspiracy (political)|plot]] revealed, Spicer freed Holliday. The [[district attorney]] threw out the charges, labeling them "ridiculous." Doc gave Kate some money and put her on a [[stage coach|stage]] out of town.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}