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

=== Behan attempts to disarm Cowboys ===
[[File:JohnnyBehan.jpg|thumb|Johnny Behan, attempted to arrest Earps]]
[[Cochise County]] [[Sheriff]] [[Johnny Behan]], a friend of the Cowboys,<ref name=epitaph1226/> later testified that he woke up about 1:30&nbsp;p.m. after the late-night card game he went to get a shave at a barbershop. That is where he first learned that the Cowboys were armed. Behan stated he quickly finished his shave and went to locate the Cowboys. At about 2:30&nbsp;p.m. he found Frank McLaury holding a horse and talking to someone on 4th Street near the corner of Fremont. When he saw Ike Clanton and Tom McLaury near C. S. Fly's photography studio, he walked there with Frank. He told the Cowboys that they must give up their arms. Ike Clanton said he was not armed, and Tom McLaury pulled his coat open to show he was not carrying a weapon.<ref>{{cite news|title=Coroner's Inquest|url=http://www.tombstone1880.com/archives/behan.htm|newspaper=Tombstone Epitaph|access-date=March 1, 2016|date=October 29, 1881|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151024021157/http://www.tombstone1880.com/archives/behan.htm|archive-date=October 24, 2015}}</ref>

The Cowboys were located in a narrow {{convert|15|-|20|ft|m}} lot<ref>{{cite web|last1=Tefertiller|first1=Casey|last2=Morey|first2=Jeff|title=O.K. Corral: A Gunfight Shrouded in Mystery|url=http://www.historynet.com/ok-corral|website=HistoryNet.com|access-date=August 27, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819203345/http://www.historynet.com/ok-corral|archive-date=August 19, 2014}}</ref> between the Harwood house and Fly's 12-room boarding house and photography studio at 312 Fremont Street,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ziegler|first1=Jack|title=C.S. Fly: Frontier Photographer|url=http://www.bensonnews-sun.com/article_d4f5efb2-93a4-5956-bf1b-12f3dceece48.html|publisher=Benson News-Sun|access-date=August 27, 2014|date=May 5, 2000|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171109162703/http://www.bensonnews-sun.com/article_d4f5efb2-93a4-5956-bf1b-12f3dceece48.html|archive-date=November 9, 2017}}</ref> where Doc Holliday roomed.

Behan later said he attempted to persuade Frank McLaury to give up his weapons, but Frank insisted that he would give up his guns only after City [[Marshal]] Virgil Earp and his brothers were first disarmed.<ref name="behantestimony">{{cite web|url=http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/earp/behantestimony.html|title=Testimony of John Behan in the Preliminary Hearing in the Earp-Holliday Case|access-date=February 7, 2011|editor-first=Douglas|editor-last=Linder|year=2005|work=Famous Trials: The O. K. Corral Trial|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215162316/http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/earp/behantestimony.html|archive-date=December 15, 2010}} From Turner, Alford (Ed.), ''The O. K. Corral Inquest'' (1992)</ref>

The Cowboys were about a block and a half from the West End Corral at 2nd. Street and Fremont, where Ike and Tom's wagon and team were stabled. Virgil Earp later testified that he thought Ike and Tom were stabled at the [[O.K. Corral, Arizona|O.K. Corral]] on Allen between 3rd and 4th, from which he thought they would be departing if they were leaving town.

While Ike Clanton later said he was planning to leave town, Frank McLaury reported that he had decided to remain behind to take care of some business. Will McLaury, Tom and Frank's brother and a judge in [[Fort Worth, Texas]], claimed in a letter he wrote during the preliminary hearing after the shootout that Tom and Frank were still armed because they were planning to conduct business before leaving town to visit him in Texas. He wrote that Billy Clanton, who had arrived on horseback with Frank, intended to go with the McLaurys to Fort Worth. Will McLaury came to Tombstone after the gun fight and joined the prosecution team in an attempt to convict the Earps and Holliday for his brothers' murder.<ref name="behantestimony"/> Paul Johnson told a different story, that the McLaurys were about to leave for Iowa to attend the wedding of their sister, Sarah Caroline.<ref name=usatoday520>{{cite news|title=New epitaphs for dead in O.K. Corral shootout|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-05-20-ok-corral-shootout_n.htm|date=May 20, 2011|newspaper=USA Today|access-date=April 21, 2013}}</ref> Tom and Frank were especially close to Sarah, one of their 14 siblings and half-siblings.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Robert Houston McLaury Family |url=http://cp1237.com/frankandtom/brothers.htm |access-date=April 21, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120223233412/http://cp1237.com/frankandtom/brothers.htm |archive-date=February 23, 2012 }}</ref> Caroline married James Reed in [[Richland, Iowa]] at the end of November that year.<ref name=johnson>{{cite book|last=Johnson|first=Paul Lee|title=The McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona: An O. K. Corral Obituary|publisher=[[University of North Texas Press]]|page=26|location=Denton|year= 2012|isbn=978-1574414509|edition=First|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mkLyIwACxO8C|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603190353/https://books.google.com/books?id=mkLyIwACxO8C|archive-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref>