John Peters Ringo — famously known as Johnny Ringo and dubbed Tombstone's deadliest gunfighter — first turned up in Arizona at a bar in Safford in 1878, where he offered a whiskey to a man seated next to him.
The unarmed man declined and said he preferred beer. Ringo then drew his pistol and fired, nicking the man's ear. When the case came before a grand jury, Ringo did not appear.
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