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=== Events leading up to the Ike Clanton court hearing === [[File:Ok corral 1882.png|thumb|O.K. Corral after a fire in 1882]] After Holliday's confrontation with Ike Clanton, Wyatt Earp took Holliday back to his room at [[C.S. Fly|Camillus Sidney "Buck" Fly's]] Lodging House to sleep off his drinking, then went home and to bed. [[Tombstone, Arizona|Tombstone]] [[Marshal]] Virgil Earp played poker with Ike Clanton, Tom McLaury, Cochise [[County Sheriff]] [[Johnny Behan]] and a fifth unnamed man in a back room of the Occidental Saloon until morning.<ref name="iketestimony">{{cite web|url=http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/earp/clantontestimony.html|title=Testimony of Ike Clanton in the Preliminary Hearing in the Earp-Holliday Case|access-date=February 6, 2011|year=2005|editor-first=Douglas|editor-last=Linder|work=Famous Trials: The O. K. Corral Trial|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215162354/http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/earp/clantontestimony.html|archive-date=December 15, 2010}} From Turner, Alford (Ed.), ''The O. K. Corral Inquest'' (1992)</ref> At about dawn on October 26, the card game broke up and Behan and Virgil Earp went home to bed. Ike Clanton testified later he saw Virgil take his [[six-shooter]] out of his lap and stick it in his pants when the game ended.<ref name="iketestimony"/> Not having rented a room, Tom McLaury and Ike Clanton had no place to go. Shortly after 8:00 am [[barkeeper]] E. F. Boyle spoke to Ike Clanton in front of the [[telegraph]] office. Clanton had been drinking all night and Boyle encouraged him to get some sleep, but Ike insisted he would not go to bed. Boyle later testified he noticed Ike was armed and covered his gun for him.<ref name="boyletestimony"/> Boyle later said that Ike told him, "'As soon as the Earps and Doc Holliday showed themselves on the street, the ball would open β that they would have to fight' ... I went down to Wyatt Earp's house and told him that Ike Clanton had threatened that when Wyatt, his brothers, and Doc Holliday showed themselves on the street that the ball would open."<ref name="boyletestimony">{{cite web|url=http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/earp/boyletestimony.html|title=Testimony of E. F. Boyle in the Preliminary Hearing in the Earp-Holliday Case|year=2005|access-date=January 13, 2011|editor-first=Douglas|editor-last=Linder|work=Famous Trials: The O. K. Corral Trial|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110102215420/http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/earp/boyletestimony.html|archive-date=January 2, 2011}} From Turner, Alford (Ed.), ''The O. K. Corral Inquest'' (1992)</ref><ref name=turner/> Ike said in his testimony afterward that he remembered neither meeting Boyle nor making any such statements that day.<ref name="iketestimony"/> Deputy Marshal Andy Bronk also heard the talk around town. He woke Virgil, who listened, and went back to sleep. Ike's continuous threats were not worth losing sleep over.<ref name=casey2>{{cite web |last1=Tefertiller |first1=Casey |title=The Walk Down |url=https://truewestmagazine.com/the-walk-down/ |website=True West Magazine |access-date=July 21, 2018 |date=October 19, 2016 |archive-date=July 21, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721102835/https://truewestmagazine.com/the-walk-down/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Later in the morning, Ike picked up his [[rifle]] and [[revolver]] from the West End Corral, where he had deposited his weapons and stabled his wagon and team after entering town. By noon that day, Ike was still drinking and once again armed, in violation of the city ordinance against carrying firearms in the city. He told anyone who would listen he was looking for Holliday or an Earp. At Fly's boarding house where Holliday and his common-law wife [[Big Nose Kate|Mary Katharine Horony]] were sleeping, proprietor Mary Fly heard Clanton's threats and banged on Holliday's door. Fly told Horony, "Ike Clanton was here looking for [Holliday], and he had a rifle with him."<ref name=casey2/> Horony woke Holliday and relayed the threat, who replied, "If God will let me live to get my clothes on, he will see me."<ref name=casey2/> At about 1:00 p.m., Marshal Virgil and his Deputy Morgan Earp found Ike on Fourth Street, still armed, and Virgil [[pistol whip]]ped him from behind. Disarming him, the Earps took Ike to appear before Justice of the Peace A.O. Wallace for violating the ordinance. Wyatt waited with Clanton while Virgil went to find Justice Wallace so a court hearing could be held.<ref name=wyatttestimony/>
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