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BILLY THE KID - WILLIAM H. BONNEY AND FRIENDS
After watching a special on Billy The Kid on PBS I saw a photograph of Paulita Maxwell. I had seen her name before and after some online research and contacting one of her descendents I was able to identify one of the tintypes that came with our Billy The Kid photo when I bought it. Proof of where our William Bonney photograph originated can be found at the Billy The Kid comparison video page.
I recently received an email from Bob Schmitt who had attached a video he had made using Visualfacerecognition.com software. He had taken the time to do a comparison of our William Bonney tintype and the known tintype of Billy the Kid. The results were impressive to say the least.I had to get this software and did. The results prove what we have been saying all along. Uor William Bonney and the known image of him are the same man.
The video is very interesting.Check it out with the full screen option. I have also added a body comparison video. .
The videos, in addition to the fact that our photograph of three men have the same facial features down to the smallest detail with three random photographs of men namely William Bonney, Tom O'folliard , and Yginio Salazar proves they are those men. Billy the kid had laughing blue eyes, light complexion, brown wavy hair, almost always had a pleasant expression with a ready smile, noticable slight projection of his upper front teeth, smooth skin. These are statements from the people who knew him in his lifetime.
You can see his blue eyes and brown wavy hair in this closeup
THIS IS OUR FULL PLATE TINTYPE OF THREE YOUNG MEN . FACTUAL PHYSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL AND CONCRETE VIDEO EVIDENCE SHOWS IT IS AN ARMED WILLIAM BONNEY A.K.A. BILLY THE KID WITH TOM O'FOLLIARD AND THEIR FRIEND YGINIO SALAZAR . I HAD READ THAT MOST SO CALLED EXPERTS BELIEVED THAT A PHOTO OF BILLY THE KID OTHER THAN THE KNOWN IMAGE DID NOT EXIST . PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO STUDY OUR VIDEO AND PHOTO WITH ALL THE SOLID PHYSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL EVIDENCE NEVER BEFORE SEEN AND COMPARED TO KNOWN IMAGES OF BONNEY AND O'FOLLIARD. EVIDENCE THAT WAS FOUND WITH CLOSEUP COMPARISON THAT NO OTHER PHOTOGRAPH CLAIMING TO BE OF THE KID CAN PRODUCE . EVIDENCE THAT COMES FROM THE TWO ONLY KNOWN IMAGES OF THE KID AND O'FOLLIARD AND AN IMAGE OF SALAZAR. ROCK SOLID FACIAL AND PHYSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL EVIDENCE THAT ONLY THE REAL PHOTO OF BILLY THE KID AND TOM O'FOLLIARD COULD PRODUCE . THESE POINTS ARE FACT. THE THREE KNOWN IMAGES OF THE KID, O'FOLLIARD AND SALAZAR , VALIDATES OUR PHOTO AND IN TURN OUR PHOTO ACTUALLY VALIDATES THE KNOWN PHOTOS.
KNOWN PHOTO OF A TEENAGE TOM O' FOLLIARD COMPARED TO ONE OF THE YOUNG MEN IN OUR TINTYPE.
TOM WAS THE BEST FRIEND OF BILLY THE KID AND HE WAS KILLED BY SHERIFF PAT GARRETT'S POSSE IN 1880. A CLOSER VIEW BELOW OF OUR PHOTO AND THE KNOWN O'FOLLIARD PHOTO.
BILLY THE KID WAS SAID TO ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN GOOD LOOKING AND THE KNOWN IMAGE OF HIM WAS A BAD PHOTO THAT DID NOT CAPTURE HIS LOOKS AND SMOOTH SKIN . THESE COMMENTS WERE MADE BY PEOPLE WHO PERSONALLY KNEW HIM . THIS IS A FACT. HE WAS ALSO A SHARP DRESSER. HIS SHOULDERS IN THE KNOWN IMAGE ARE ABNORMALLY WEAK AND SLANTED AS IN OUR TINTYPE. THE STRAP ACROSS HIS CHEST IS FROM A SHOULDER HOLSTER. HE WAS ARMED IN OUR PHOTO.
OUR PHOTO COMPARED TO KNOWN TEENAGE PHOTO OF O'FOLLIARD. LOOKING AT THE PHOTO, THE RIGHT EYE HAS A LITTLE LAZY EYELID THAT DROOPS A BIT IN THE MIDDLE. THE OTHER EYE MORE ALMOND SHAPE. HE HAS A DIMPLE ON HIS CHIN IN BOTH PHOTOS A LITTLE OFF SET FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE CHIN. THE FOREHEAD HAIRLINE HAS THE LOWEST POINT OVER THE THE AREA BETWEEN THE RIGHT EYE AND BRIDGE OF THE NOSE IN BOTH PHOTOS. IDENTICAL NOSE IN EACH PHOTO .HE HAS A EUROPEAN LOOK TO HIM IN BOTH PHOTOS. i WOULD SAY FRENCH . ALSO A FACIAL BLEMISH WE NOTICED ON THE KNOWN IMAGE AND FOUND IN THE SAME SPOT IN OUR TINTYPE. THE CLOSEUP OF THE BLEMISH IS SHOWN BELOW . OUR PHOTO IS TOM O'FOLLIARD AND THE OTHER TWO MEN EVIDENTLY FRIENDS OF HIS..
OUR TINTYPE COMPARED TO REVERSED KNOWN IMAGE. THE ONE EAR STICKING OUT FURTHER THAN THE OTHER IS CAUSED BY HIS HAT.
OUR PHOTO COMPARED TO KNOWN IMAGE OF YGINIO SALAZAR IN HIS 20'S - FRIEND OF BILLY THE KID AND TOM O'FOLLIARD
A VISITOR TO THE SITE EMAILED US ABOUT ANOTHER MAN IN THE PHOTO. HE SAID THAT PERSON HAD SOME SIMILAR LOOKS TO A YOUNG YGINIO SALAZAR. HE WAS A FRIEND OF BILLY THE KID AND TOM O'FOLLIARD . THE MAN IN OUR PHOTO DOES HAVE A HISPANIC LOOK TO HIM. SIMILAR FACIAL STRUCTURE , SAME NOSE , RECEDING HAIRLINE AND EAR SHAPE . OUR TINTYPE IS PAINTED AND THE YOUNG PHOTO OF SALAZAR APPEARS TO BE A DRAWING OF A PHOTO. THE TWO SEATED MEN IN OUR PHOTO LOOK LIKE TWO OF BILLY THE KIDS BEST FRIENDS. WE KNOW THAT THE PERSON THAT LOOKS LIKE TOM O'FOLLIARD IN OUR TINTYPE IS O'FOLLIARD AND THIS GENTLEMAN PROBABLY IS SALAZAR.
OBVIOUS BLEMISH ON O'FOLLIARDS FACE WE FOUND ON THE KNOWN IMAGE OF HIM WHICH WAS ALSO FOUND EXACTLY ON THE SAME SPOT ON OUR TINTYPE.
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OUR PHOTO COMPARED TO ORIGINAL IMAGE
OUR PHOTO WITH CALLOUS ON LOWER LIP.
GRAINY ,BUT THE ORIGINAL PHOTO CLEARLY HAS A CALLOUS IN THE SAME SPOT . WE THINK IT WAS IN RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS MISSHAPED FRONT TEETH BECAUSE OF IT'S LOCATION BELOW THAT AREA. I TALKED TO A DENTIST ABOUT THE CALLOUS AND HE STATED IT WAS CAUSED BY SOME ACTION THE PERSON DID WITH HIS LOWER LIP AND HIS UPPER TEETH. IT LOOKED UNIQUE TO HIM. HE ALSO POINTED OUT THAT THE TWO MOUTHS WERE ACTUALLY FROM THE SAME PERSON AND THE SIZE DIFFERENCE WAS THE FACT THAT ONE MOUTH IS RELAXED OPEN AND THE OTHER IS HELD CLOSE WHILE POISING FOR THE PHOTO AND THUS APPEARS A BIT WIDER.
WE ENHANCED OUR TINTYPE BRIGHTNESS AND CONTRAST TO SEE ANY FACIAL MARKS THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO COMPARE WITH ON THE ORIGINAL PHOTO. ON HIS LOWER LIP WE FOUND SOME TYPE OF BUMP OR CALLOUS FROM POSSIBLY BITING HIS LIP THERE. IT TOOK A LOT OF SEARCHING FOR THE BEST ORIGINAL PHOTO OF THE KID WE COULD LOOK FOR THIS FEATURE. THE BEST WE FOUND HAD THE SAME MARK ON HIS LOWER LIP . NOT ONLY DID WE NOTICE THE SAME MARK BUT THE CHANNEL UNDER HIS NOSE IN BOTH PHOTOS POINT TO THE CALLOUS. ALSO NOTED , THE MIDDLE OF HIS TOP LIP WHERE THE NOSE CHANNEL CONNECTS IS HIGHER ON THE RIGHT SIDE FROM HIS TEETH THAT ARE VISIBLE ON THE ORIGINAL PHOTO. HIS MOUTH IS CLOSED IN OUR PHOTO BUT HE HAS THE SAME SHAPE AND MARKS AS THE ORIGINAL WHICH WOULD INDICATE BAD SHAPED TEETH UNDERNEATH. HIS NOSE IS ALSO UNEVEN AND POINTS A LITTLE TO THE RIGHT BECAUSE OF THE TEETH PROBLEM HE HAD I WOULD SUSPECT. THE ORIGINAL PHOTO IS GRAINY AND DIFFICULT TO PICK OUT CERTAIN FACIAL MARKS BUT THESE "EXACT FEATURES" ON BOTH PHOTOS IS CLEARLY EVIDENT..THIS IS EAR COMPARISON FOR THE KNOWN IMAGE AND OUR TINTYPE. LOOK CLOSELY TO SEE IDENTICAL SHAPE AND SHADOW FOR BOTH EARS. NOT CLOSE , "BUT EXACT" SHADOW, SHAPE, SIZE ,ETC. ..
NOSTRIL COMPARISON
COLOR OVERLAY IS EVIDENT IN OUR PHOTO AND THE TRUE NOSTRIL AREA CAN BE SEEN AS A SHADOW AREA AROUND BOTH THE LEFT AND RIGHT NOSTRIL HOLES. I DARKEND IN THE LEFT PIN HOLE NOSTRIL HOLE A BIT TO GIVE A MORE ACCURATE LOOK OF OUR IMAGE IN THE VIDEO
KNOWN IMAGE
YOU HAVE A MAN THE MATCHES UP TO O'FOLLIARD AND A MAN THAT LOOKS VERY SIMILAR TO A YOUNG SALAZAR AND A MAN THAT HAS THE EXACT FACIAL FEATURES WITH A UNIQUE LIP CALLOUS , EXACT EARS ,BODY SHAPE, ABNORMALLY WEAK SHOULDERS AND JUST THE SAME ATTITUDE AS BILLY IN THE KNOWN IMAGE. PLUS THE PHOTO SHOWS HE DID HAVE GOOD LOOKS AND SMOOTH SKIN AS STATED FROM PEOPLE WHO KNEW HIM . TO HAVE THREE PEOPLE IN A PHOTOGRAPH AND BE ACTUALLY BILLY THE KID, TOM O'FOLLIARD AND YGINIO SALAZAR YOU WOULD NEED THE FOLLOWING. THE PHOTO WOULD NEED TO BE FROM ABOUT 1880. TOM O'FOLLIARD WOULD NEED TO HAVE AN OFFSET DIMPLE IN HIS CHIN AND A GOOD SIZE FACIAL BLEMISH ON HIS CHEEK . HE WOULD NEED TO HAVE LARGE BALL SHAPED EAR LOBES. HE WOULD NEED TO LOOK IN HIS EARLY TWENTYS OR ABOUT 5 OR 6 YEARS OLDER THAN THE KNOWN IMAGE. SALAZAR WOULD NEED TO LOOK HISPANIC. HE WOULD NEED TO LOOK ABOUT 15 OR 16 YEARS OLD AND YOUNGER THAN THE OTHER TWO IN THE PHOTO. HE WOULD ALSO NEED TO LOOK ABOUT 6 OR 7 YEARS YOUNGER THAN THE EARLY TWENTIES PHOTO OF HIM. HE WOULD NEED TO HAVE A SLENDER FACE AND NOSE . HIS EARS WOULD NEED TO MATCH UP TO THE KNOWN IMAGE. THE KID WOULD NEED TO BE ABOUT THE SAME AGE AS HIS KNOWN PHOTO . HE WOULD PROBABLY BE IN THE CENTER OF A POSED PHOTO BECAUSE HE WAS THE SO CALLED ALPHA MALE OF THE THREE . HE WOULD NEED TO HAVE ABNORMALLY WEAK SLANTED SHOULDERS. HIS HEAD WOULD LOOK A BIT LARGE DUE TO THE SHOULDER SLANT. HIS HEAD SHAPE AND EARS MUST MATCH THE KNOWN PHOTO. HE MUST HAVE AN OFFSET MIDDLE PART OF HIS UPPER LIP DUE TO THE UNDERLYING TEETH PROBLEMS. HE MUST HAVE A CALLOUS ON HIS LOWER LIP WHICH THE CHANNEL ABOVE HIS UPPER LIP POINTS AT. AND HE MUST HAVE THE SAME BODY LANGUAGE AND JUST THE WAY HE CARRIES HIMSELF AS THE KNOWN IMAGE. THE THREE KNOWN PHOTOS ALL COME TOGETHER IN OUR PHOTO. THERE WAS SOME SPECULATION THAT THE YOUNG O'FOLLIARD MIGHT NOT BE HIM IN THE KNOWN PHOTO BUT OUR PHOTO CLEARLY TIES HIM TO THE KID. OUR PHOTO COVERS EVERYTHING ABOVE WITHOUT QUESTION. THIS NOW IS THE SECOND KNOWN PHOTO OF BILLY THE KID .
HERE IS A LITTLE {DRAWN OUT} MATH APPLIED TO THE PROBABILITY OF THIS PHOTO BEING BONNEY, O'FOLLIARD, AND SALAZAR :
THE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES CIRCA 1880 ABOUT
50000000
AGE GROUP OF TOTAL POPULATION CIRCA 1880 AGE 15 TO 21 ABOUT 18%
.18 X 50000000 =
9,000,000
PERCENT OF TOTAL POPULATION WHICH IS MALE IN 1880 ABOUT
64%
.64 X 9000000 =
5760000
PERCENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN PEOPLE IN 1880 CENSUS ABOUT 13 %
PERCENT OF MALES IN POPULATION IS STILL 64%
64 % OF 13 % IS ABOUT 8 %
8 % X 5,760,000 = 460,800 AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES 15 TO 21 IN 1880
5,760,000 - 460,800 = 5,300,000 ROUNDED TO THE NEAREST 100,000
THIS NUMBER WOULD ESTIMATE THE TOTAL NUMBER OF WHITE AND HISPANIC MALES AGE 15 TO 21 IN THE USA IN 1880 .
THREE PEOPLE IN OUR PHOTO SO GROUPS OF THREE IN 5,300,000 =
1,800,000 GROUPS ROUNDED UP TO THE NEAREST 100,000
NUMBER OF COMBINATIONS YOU CAN HAVE OF HISPANIC AND WHITE MALES IN ONE OF THESE GROUPS IS 4 OR 25%
EXAMPLES ARE :
H,H,H,
H,H,W
H,W,W
W,W,W
THE NUMBER OF THESE GROUPS THAT WOULD BE TWO WHITE MALES AND ONE HISPANIC IS
.25 X 1,800,000 =
450,000
THE NUMBER OF AGE COMBINATIONS BETWEEN 15 TO 21 OF THE THREE MALES IN THE 450,000 GROUPS IS PAST MY ABILITY TO CALCULATE, SO I WONT BOTHER WITH THAT. LETS BE REALLY GENEROUS AND SAY 10% OF THE GROUPS OF 450,000 HAS 2 WHITE MALES THAT ARE ABOUT 20 AND THE HISPANIC MALE IS ABOUT 15.
10% X 450,000 = 45,000
NOW WE ARE GOING TO GET REALLY GENEROUS. WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE ORIGINAL GROUPS OF THREE HISPANIC AND WHITE MALES WERE FRIENDS IN 1880.
LETS SAY 2%
2% X 45,000 = 900
HOW MANY OF THESE 900 GROUPS OF 3 MALES ,2 BEING WHITE AND ABOUT 20 YEARS OLD AND THE YOUNGER HISPANIC MALE BEING ABOUT 15 YEARS OLD, HAD A PICTURE TAKEN TOGETHER AROUND 1880..
LETS BE GENEROUS AGAIN AND SAY 10%
10% X 900 = 90
WELL WERE DOWN TO 90 PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN IN 1880 OF THREE MALES . IN THESE PHOTOGRAPHS TWO OF THE MALES ARE WHITE AND ONE IS HISPANIC. THE TWO WHITE MALES ARE ABOUT 20 YEARS OLD AND THE HISPANIC MALE IS ABOUT 15 YEARS OLD.
NOW LETS LOOK AT THE PEOPLE IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND HAVE THEM COMPARED TO THREE SEPARATE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THREE FAMOUS WESTERN OUTLAWS FROM THE PERIOD LIKE WE HAVE DONE HERE AT OUR WEBSITE.
WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF THERE BEING ONE OF THESE REMAINING NINETY PHOTOGRAPHS IN WHICH THE THREE SUBJECTS IMAGED WOULD HAVE THE SAME FACIAL MARK , LIP CALLOUS, EAR SHAPE, DIMPLE, BODY AND SHOULDER SHAPE, ETC..AS SHOWN IN OUR PHOTO WHEN COMPARED TO THE 3 SEPARATE WELL KNOWN WESTERN OUTLAWS PHOTOS.
THE MATH WE USED WAS VERY GENEROUS AND A PERSON WITH MORE MATH SKILLS COULD GIVE US BETTER NUMBERS BUT WE KNOW THE ODDS OF ANY OF THESE REMAINING 90 PHOTOS MATCHING UP LIKE OUR PHOTO DOES ,WITHOUT IT POSITIVELY BEING THAT OF BONNEY, O'FOLLIARD AND SALAZAR , WOULD BE ASTRONOMICAL.HERE ARE SOME FACTS THAT WERE NOT CONSIDERED IN THIS CALCULATION. THE YOUNGER O' FOLLIARD PHOTO WAS ONLY BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN HIM FROM SOME EXPERTS AND WAS NOT VALIDATED AT ALL. SO THAT PHOTO WAS BASICALLY A PHOTO OF A YOUNG MAN IN HIS MID TEENS TAKEN THEY THOUGHT IN THE EARLY 1870'S. ONE OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF SIMILAR AGED TEENAGE BOYS THAT WERE PROBABLY TAKEN IN THE EARLY 1870'S. OUR PHOTO CONFIRMS IT IS HIM. SALAZAR'S DRAWING PHOTO WAS ALSO JUST BELIEVED TO BE HIM IN HIS MID TO LATE 20'S. IT TOO, WAS ONE OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF CHARCOAL DRAWINGS OF MEN IN THE LATE 1800'S. THE BILLY THE KID TINTYPE THAT JUST SOLD WAS ALWAYS SAID TO BE HIM BY EXPERTS THAT TRACED BACK IT'S HISTORY WITH A CERTAIN FAMILY AND HAD NO OTHER PHOTO TO COMPARE IT TOO. IT IS ONE OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PHOTOS THAT WERE TAKEN OF MEN AROUND 20 YEARS OLD AROUND 1880. THE KNOWN PHOTO HAD THE PROVENANCE AND THE OTHER TWO HAD NONE. OUR PHOTO CONFIRMS THAT ALL THREE SINGLE PHOTOS OF BONNEY, O'FOLLIARD AND SALAZAR ARE INDEED THEM.SO WE WOULD HAVE TO USED 1/100,000 ETC.... IN PARTS OF OUR CALCULATIONS MANY THOUSANDS OF TIMES AND THAT DID NOT INCLUDE USING THE PERCENT AMOUNT OF MALES THAT HAVE LIP CALLOUSES AT AROUND 20 YEARS OLD AND MALES THAT HAVE CHEEK BIRTHMARKS OR WHATEVER O'FOLLIARD HAD ON HIS FACE AND IN THE EXACT POSITIONS AS THE KNOWN OR BELIEVED IMAGES. A TEAM OF MATH EXPERTS WOULD NEED TO FIGURE THIS OUT TO GET AN APPROXIMATE ANSWER.
THAT IS A FACT THAT NO PHOTO CLAIMING TO BE OF BILLY THE KID CAN SAY , EVEN THE PHOTO THAT SOLD FOR 2,000,000.
OUR PHOTO VALIDATES THE KNOWN BILLY THE KID TINTYPE, AND BOTH THE O' FOLLIARD AND SALAZAR PHOTOS . THOSE PHOTOS VALIDATE OUR PHOTO.
THIS IS A FACT. IT WOULD TAKE HIGHER FORMS OF CALCULUS TO FIGURE THIS PROBLEM OUT COMPLETELY .
NO MATH PRINCIPLES WERE PURPOSELY HURT IN THE ABOVE CALCULATIONS.
