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...marshal's job turned over twice before McNeely took his own shot at it. He won the two-year appointment from the mayor and town council in November 1984. At the time he made a commitment to himself to clean up Tombstone and stick there; he was tired of his tumbleweed life...
...town making do, that is what it was, unaware of its loose ways until Roy McNeely rolled up in a 1973 Winnebago, for which he had traded a motorcycle, a sidecar and $1,200. Nowadays, even the townsfolk who back the new marshal say that his zealotry riles 50% of their lot. City Councilman Martin Devere, a businessman whose charges include Boothill cemetery, and a McNeely supporter, says that "anyone good in that job is bound to ruffle feathers." A local innkeeper says flatly, "I think he's an egomaniac. We had a little fender bender out front here...
...some resistance to his policies at first. "Some people called me a little dictator, a little Hitler," he said. "I was fighting tooth and nail to clean up the department, and it seemed like everything I did got blowed out of proportion. It was all over hell." The marshal expertly maneuvered his squad car into a position to cut off the young bikers. Both got off with warnings, and the admonition that failure to correct their legal obligations would amount to $700 in fines next time...
...last month of 1985, McNeely's office collected $1,820.65 in fines, double or triple the amount his predecessors usually brought in. Wearing a leather vest, a .357 in a holster and silver conches on his belt, the marshal was going over his ledgers when an elderly woman stuck her head in the door. "This is a $10 fine," she said. "I just don't think this is fair to the tourist. I was only there a little while...
Returning to his paperwork, the marshal pulled out the fruits of his labor thus far, and in the doing made the point that he inherited a bureaucratic mess. The files are tidy now, and thorough, as is personnel. McNeely replaced the old crew with six new deputies. "Look here," he said, going back to the early entries in one journal. "Now look here," he said, flipping to recent jottings covering a like period of time. "Four pages of tickets rather than that one little dinky one. We had officers start doing their jobs. That's what happened...