A missing handwritten transcript from a coroner’s inquest done after the legendary gunfight at the OK Corral has resurfaced in a dusty box more than 125 years after the most famous shootout in Wild West history. The document was last seen when it was photocopied in the 1960s. It was found when court clerks in Arizona stumbled on the box while reorganizing files in an old jail storage room in Bisbee, about 20 miles south of Tombstone, where the battle took place. The inquest was done by coroner Henry M. Matthews after Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday confronted a gang of drunken outlaws, sparking a 30-second gunfight in the streets of Tombstone that killed Frank and Tom McLaury and Bill Clanton.
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