In the late 1880s, Lester Moore worked as a Wells Fargo Station Agent in the Mexico-United States border town of Naco, Arizona. One day a man named Hank Dunstan arrived at the Wells Fargo station to pick up a package he was expecting. When Moore handed him a badly-battered and mangled package, Dunstan became enraged over its condition and an argument ensued. Both men reached for their guns. Moore was shot four times from Hank Dunstan’s gun. Before Moore died, he managed to fire off one shot of his own, hitting Dunstan in the chest killing him. Lester Moore’s body was transported to the nearby town of Tombstone, where he was buried in the Boothill Graveyard. There he became forever known for the epitaph inscribed on his headstone which read:
Here lies Lester Moore
Four slugs from a .44
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Categories: Crime, Death, Last Words and Epitaphs, Names
Where did you dig this up?
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I try to put a source on my posts, where appropriate. If you click on the word “source” at the bottom of each post, it should take you there. This particular one I found at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19899
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