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The thirty seconds on Fremont Street cost him office and exile

The thirty seconds on Fremont Street cost him office and exile

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A sheriff stands between the Earps and Cowboys on Fremont Street for thirty seconds - what did it cost him in a frontier courtroom of ambition?

The thirty seconds on Fremont Street cost him office and exile

In this episode, we trace John Harris Behan’s life from a Westport childhood to a frontier career that mixed law, politics, and business, and we follow how one October afternoon on Fremont Street cast a long shadow over his reputation and future. What did those thirty seconds mean for his offices, his finances, and his place in territorial Arizona?

Person: John Harris Behan
Date: October 26, 1881
Location: Fremont Street, Tombstone
Event: Confrontation between the Earp brothers and the Cowboys at the O.K. Corral
Date of birth: October 24, 1844

- He served as Yavapai County Sheriff, was county recorder, and won a seat in the Seventh Arizona Territorial Legislature by 1874.
- Behan was present at Apache Pass in July 1862 as a civilian logistics man attached to the California Column.
- Investigators later found $5,000 set aside from unidentified sources during his time as sheriff and $50,000 passed through prison accounts without documentation.
- He managed the Yuma territorial prison and was discharged from a double-billing charge in January 1882 on a legal technicality.
- His 1912 death certificate listed hardening of the arteries and syphilis contracted about thirty years earlier, a cause attributed by his son.

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