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Joe Brown's murder trial

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Joe Brown's murder trial

August 20, 2026

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Emanuel "Mannie" Clements Jr., a former El Paso police officer and constable, was a notorious borderlands gunman-lawman whose killing on December 29, 1908, at the Coney Island Saloon became one of early twentieth-century El Paso's most famous murder cases. A cousin of John Wesley Hardin and…

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