Ten Percent Ring

Tombstone in 1881
Johnny Behan, a leader of the Tombstone Ten Percent Ring

The Ten-Percent Ring was a title given by the newspaper editors of The Tombstone Epitaph in 1881 to Johnny Behan and his friends for stealing about ten percent of the local Tombstone, Arizona, taxes in the 1880s. Milt Joyce (1847–1889), owner of the Oriental Saloon and chairman of Cochise County, Arizona, supervisors, was also seen as a leader of the Ten Percent Ring. The Tombstone Epitaph was started by John Clum in 1880.[1]

  1. ^ The Tombstone Epitaph, December 25, 1881.