Train Robberies
Train Robbers
The "Holdup" Men
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William Aſllan] Pinkerton
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WILLIAM A. PINKERTOX.






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The late ROBERT A PISKERTON.


Mc Daniels, part of the Jesse James gang; the Dalton
brothers, Bill, Bob, Emmett and Gratton of Kansas; the
Burrows brothers, Rube and Jim of Alabama; the Sontag
brothers, John and George of Minnesota; the Gates brothers
of California; the Jones brothers; the McCarthy brothers,
Tom and Bill of Colorado; the Cook brothers, Bill and
Jim of Arkansas, who were part of the Dalton gang and
the Carver and Kilpatrick brothers of Texas.
The “hold-up” robber originated among bad men of the
gold mining camps. Unsuccessful as a prospector, too lazy
to work, and with enough bravado and criminal instinct
to commit desperate crimes, he first robbed prospectors
and miners en route on foot to stage stations, of their gold
dust and nuggets, becoming bolder, looting stages and
eventually after the railroads were built, he "held-up" rail-
way trains and robbed express cars.
We also find them from the “dare-devils” of the Civil
War, those from the Southwest who engaged in guerrilla
warfare, where, as the pride of the States which sent theni
to the front and, because of their ambuscades, raids and
lawless acts during the war, they were received as heroes
when they returned to their homes. The James boys, the
Youngers, the Renos, the Farringtons, the war giving them
the reckless life they longed for and experience fitting them
for the life of crime they inaugurated immediately after.
In the early days of the plains, the cowboy, with criminal
inclination, noted for deeds of daring, began his career by
cattle "rustling" and horse stealing, and then became a


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while others of the bandits uncoupled the express or money
car and forced the engineer to carry them a mile or two
distant, where the cars and safes would be forced open
with dynamite. Resistance usually resulted in the death of
those who interfered. Our study of the murders com-
mitted by these desperadoes shows fully 90 per cent to be
assassinations, those killed generally being defenseless, or
the outnumbering desperadoes by pouncing on their victims
when least expected, giving them no chance for their lives.
Escapes were usually made with horses in waiting, in
charge of a confederate at the place of the robbery, and
often with relays of horses previously arranged, for cov-
ering five or six hundred miles, until they arrived at their
homes or hiding places.
There is no crime in America so hazardous as
"hold-up” robbery. Over two-thirds of those who
have been engaged in these crimes, were killed
while operating, or in resisting arrest, or from their
wounds, lynched by posses, or as is known “died with
their boots on," while nearly all others were either captured
or sentenced to long terms of imprisonment or driven from
the United States, becoming exiles in distant foreign climes.
Those at large are constantly in fear of arrest, living se.
cluded lives, and risking no chances of discovery by con-
municating with friends.
Shortly after the close of the Civil War there was an
epidemic of train robberies in Indiana, especially between
Indianapolis and New Albany on the Jeffersonville and
Indianapolis R. R., now part of the Pennsylvania Rail-
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man who "held-up" and robbed the J. M. & I. R. R. had been
arrested at Seymour, and while enroute to the Brown-
stone jail were forcibly taken from their escorts and lynched
by excited citizens who had become incensed at the outrages
the Renos and their associates were committing.
This was followed by a Vigilance Committee, supposed
to have come from the neighborhood of Seymour, visiting
the New Albany jail, battering in the doors, over-powering
the guards and hanging Frank, Sim and Billy Reno anal
Charles Anderson in the jail corridor. Notices were also
posted in public places about Seymour, naming 25 people
supposed to be affiliated with the Renos and warning them
that if any house, cattle or other property was destroyed,
the Committee would “meet” but once more to clean
out the friends of the Renos remaining in the community.
These drastic, though apparently necessary measures
stopped train robbery in Southern Indiana; there has not
been a train robbery there since and the identity of the
Vigilantes is still a secret.
The State of Missouri has probably produced more train
robbers than any other state in the Union and of whom the
James brothers were the most desperate and vicious.
Among the Kentuckians who settled in Clay County,
Mo., before the War were Doctor and Mrs. Samuels and
their sons, Frank and Jesse James, sons of Mrs. Samuels'
previous marriage. When the War broke out, the brothers
joined the Quantrell band in their guerrilla warfare. After
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JESSE JAMES.

JESSE JAMES.
(after death.)


the War the James boys, under the leadership of Bill An-
derson and operating with Cole, Jim, John and Bob Young.
er, Clell and John Miller, Charles Pitts, the Tompkins
brothers, Jim Cummings, Dick Liddell, and other members
of Quantrell's band, began prowling through West and
Southwest Missouri and Eastern Kansas, looking for what
spoils they could get and for years committed a series of
the most despicable crimes of that period in Missouri, Ken-
tucky and Minnesota, "holding-up' banks in the day time,
robbing trains at night, murdering respectable citizens who
resisted them and killing officers who attempted their ar-
rest.
The published reports of the exploits of this band had
more to do with the making of bad men in the West than
anything which occurred before they began operating or
since.
At the time Jesse James was killed and his brother sur-
rendered the statement was made that neither was ever
arrested or captured by officers, State or Federal, but Judge
Philander Lucas of Liberty, Mo., states that during 1865-
1866, about eleven o'clock one morning, the James boys,
with Clell Miller, Jim Poole and George White, rode into
Liberty, firing off their revolvers and acting like a lot of
Indians; that they entered Meffert's saloon, had drinks, and
as they left the saloon Sheriff Rickards arrested and dis-
armed the James boys, marched them into the Court House,
arraigned them before him and that he committed them to
the County jail. As a matter of fact, there were then no
charges against them.
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accounted for the county treasurer's absence from his office,
and saved his saie from being plundered.
As the bandits rode by the meeting they fired, in the
air, a fusillade from their revolvers and rifles, at the same
time informing the gathering of the robbery of the bank
and advising that they return to town and start a new bank.
Robert Pinkerton, then a young man, with a posse
traced the outlaws through the lower counties of Iowa. Then
with an Iowa Sheriff, the balance of the posse having with-
drawn, continued into Missouri as far as Cameron Junction,
a cross road station, where the Sheriff left for additional
help; but Robert Pinkerton continued following the trail to
the Missouri River where the band separated, some cross-
ing at Sibley Ferry, others at Blue Mill Ferry, all meeting
afterwards at the Old Blue Mill, from which point they
continued South, evidently making towards the James honie
in Clay County. Here, Robert Pinkerton, recognizing the
foliy of continuing alone withdrew.
On July 20, 1873, the James brothers committed their
first train "hold-up” robbery on the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific R. R., Wrecking the train fifteen miles east of
Council Bluffs, Iowa, murdered the unarmed engineer,
wounded the fireman, injured passengers and robbed the ex-
press car of a large amount of money.
January 31, 1874, the James brothers aided by the
Younger brothers, Clell Viller and Jim Cummings, com-
mitted their second train "hold-up” robbery, this, on the
Iron Mountain Road at Gadshill, Io., flagging the train to
a standstill and "hold-up" and robbing it of $10,000. In
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BOR YOUNGER.
(James hand. 1

JIM YOUNGER.
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quently settled in Western Missouri, and so far as I know,
is now living a straightforward life.
Jesse James and the Youngers are all buried at the
scenes of their boyhood days in Western Missouri.
Charley Bullard, alias “Piano Charley” and “Ike" Marsh,
alias “Big Ike”, who first came into prominence as "hold-
up” robbers, have had rather an interesting career.
In 1869, Bullard and Marsh concealed themselves in a
Hudson River R. R. train between New York City and
Buffalo, "held-up”, bound and gagged the messenger of the
Merchants Union Express Co., and stole one hundred thou-
sand dollars.
Bullard and Marsh were arrested in Canada, extradited
and lodged in the White Plains, N. Y., jail for trial, from
which, aided by “Billy” Forrester, an old-time associate,
they escaped.
November 20, 1869, Bullard and Marsh with Adami
Worth and "Bob" Cochran, stole from the Boylston Bank,
Boston, Mass., cash and securities, valued at four hundred
and fifty thousand dollars and fled to Europe with their
plunder.
At the Washington Hotel, Liverpool, Bullard met anci
married a beautiful bar maid named Kittie Flynn, went to
Paris, opened the famous American bar at Rue Scribe,
where his wife's beauty and engaging manners attracted
many American visitors as well as making it the head-


Bill Collins forfeited his bond, but was located at Pem-
bina, Minn., working as a cowboy. When Joseph Anderson,
Deputy U. S. Marshal from Dallas, Texas, attempted to
arrest him, both fired simultaneously, killing each other.
Albert Collins and "Arkansas Johnson” were killed re-
sisting arrest. Sam Bass, with a confederate, was decoyed
to Round Rock, Tex., by a friend, Jim Murphy, to rob a
bank and was surrounded by Texas rangers and detectives,
the Sheriff and his deputies; the effort to arrest them re-
sulting in the killing of Bass and his companion. Jim
Murphy, the “stool-pigeon," escaped unhurt, only to die
shortly after collecting his reward, and is said to have been
poisoned by friends of the Collins. Frank Johnson became
a fugitive from justice and is supposed to have settled in
Montana under an assumed name.
In 1888, Rube and Jim Burrows, originally from Ver-
non, Lamar County, Alabama, with W. L. Brock, all of
whom had been railroad employees, farm-hands and cow-
boys, robbed the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Pacific Ry.
in Texas, for which Brock was arrested and confessed, im-
plicating the Burrows brothers. The Burrows boys re-
turned to Montgomery, Ala., where they were arrested.
While en route to the police station, Rube began firing and
escaped. Jim, however, was overpowered and taken to
Arkansas for trial for train robbery at Genowa, that state,
and died in jail.
Rube Burrows kept in hiding until 1893, when he "held-
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W. L. BROCK.
Associate of Rube and Jim Burrows.



CHRIS EVANS.
Associate of Sontag Bros.
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BOB DALTON.
GRATTON DALTON.
Dalton Bros. Band. Bank and train hold-ups-South west.

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FRANK ELLIOTT.
Dalton Gang.
ROBERT ELLIOTT.
Dalton Gang.


November 28, 1894, Jim French and several others at
Chrotah, I. T., “held-up” nine people in a store, plundered
the store, the bandits retiring without firing a shot.
Little by little, however, at the cost of the lives of many
brave officers and the expenditure of a large amount of
money, the members of the Cook band were exterminated or
imprisoned and after the United States Government haud
offered $250 each for the capture of these outlaws. Nov-
ember 21, 1894, Jim Cook was sentenced to 8 years in the
penitentiary for murder. November 22, 1894, “Skeeter"
at Ft. Scott, Ark., pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the
penitentiary. February 12, 1895, Bill Cook in the U. S.
Court at Fort Smith, Ark., was sentenced to fifty years in
the N. Y. State Penitentiary at Albany, N. Y. January 30,
1895, “Cherokee Bill” was captured at Nowata, I. T., after
he had started to organize a new band.
Others of these outlaws killed while resisting arrest were
Dick Broadwell, Ol Yantis, Charles Pierce, alias “Bitter
Creek,” George Newcomb, alias "Slaughter Kid,” Bill Dool-
in, "Tulca Jack," Henry Munson and Zip Wyatt.
“Black Jack" McDonald, who was originally one of the
Dalton gang, began operations in the Southwest in 1896
with George Musgrave, Bob Hayes, Cole Young, Bob Lewis
and Sid Moore, principally “holding-up" general stores ani
post offices and killing those who attempted to arrest then
August, 1896, they unsuccessfully attempted to roba
bank at Nogales, Arizona. October, 1896, they attempted to
rob an Atlantic & Pacific R. R. train but a Deputy United
States Marshal, who was on the train, organized a posse,
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casional absence. He pleaded guilty to his last robbery,
but strenuously denied that he was the “Black Bart” who
committed the others and declared to the Court that it was
only urgent necessity that drove him to commit this crime.
On November 17, 1883, he was sentenced to six years in the
prison at San Quentin, Cal. He originally came from De-
catur, Ills., where he had worked on farms, and from where
in Company B, 160 Illinois Regiment, served three years in
the Civil War. He was known in his regiment as "Wrest-
ling Charlie,” and so far as could be learned outside of his
"hold-ups" had led a respectable life, was a teetotaler, a
man of fine education, a remarkably good story teller and
since his release he has been seen more or less in honest
occupations on the Pacific Coast.
During “Black Bart's” criminal career he never took a
life or injured a human being.
Early in the evening of November 4, 1892, at Omaha,
Frank Shercliffe, alias Sherman W. Morris, boarded a Sioux
City and Pacific Railroad train, and as it neared California
Junction, Iowa, completely disguised with a false beard, he
attacked William G. Pollock, a New York diamond mer-
chant, with a bag of shot, until it was broken open, then
seriously wounding him in the arm and shoulder with a
revolver ripped open his vest and stole therefrom unmount-
ed diamonds valued at twenty thousand dollars, signaled the
train to stop, and escaped.
As a result of our handling the matter for the Jewelers
Protective Union, Shercliffe was arrested and tried at Lo-



"CAPT." EUGENE BUNCH.
Southern Express Robber. Killed Evading Arrest.



OLIVER CURTIS PERRY.
Single handed train robber. Operated in New York State.


return to Matteawan Asylum, Perry destroyed both eyes
with a saddler's needle and is now a blind raving maniac.
Perry was born in Amsterdam, N. Y.; at fourteen was sent
to a State Reformatory for burglary; afterwards served a
term at Rochester, N. Y., then went to Minnesota, burglar-
ized a store, served three years in the Stillwater, Minn.,
prison, became a cowboy, returned East and imposed upon
religious people by pretending to reform, and finally com--
mitted the “hold-up” crimes as alleged.
Bert Alvord, a train robber, was once City Marshal of
Wilcox, Arizona, and Deputy Sheriff of Cochise County,
said to have been a fearless, diligent and conscientious
officer, became a train robber and "hold-up” as he claimed,
on account of a reward of $1,000 offered for the arrest of
a "hold-up” which he was not able to collect, "held-up” a
train and took from the express messenger $1,000 declar-
ing he had earned this money and that there was no other
way to collect it, thereafter committing many robberies, but
was finally hunted down by the rangers and rurales.
In January, 1902, Alvord joined forces with Bravo Juan,
Augustine Chicon and Bill Stiles, Texas and Mexican out-
laws, working along the border. Alvord and Bravo Juan
were captured in the Sierra Madre mountains of Sonora,
Texas, tried and acquitted. Later Alvord and Stiles were
arrested for a train robbery at Cochise. Alvord was sen-
tenced to two years in the penitentiary at Tombstone, Ariz.,
but with Stiles awaiting trial in the same jail on six indict-
ments and thirteen other prisoners on December 15, 1903,
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broke jail, this being the second time Alvord and Stiles:
escaped from this prison; on the previous occasion, Stiles
seriously wounding the jailer. Alvord was later recaptureri
and served his time in the Yuma, Ariz., penitentiary and
was released during October, 1905.
Kellogg Nichols, a United States Express messenger,
was found murdered in his car on the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific R. R. train, at Morris, Ills., on the night of
March 13, 1886, the safe open and $21,500, mostly $100-
bills, stolen therefrom. My personal investigation at the
time, assisted by Frank Murray, then Chief of Police, of
Joliet, and afterwards for many years one of our Superin-
tendents, John T. Smith, Chief Special Agent of the Chi-
cago, Rock Island and Pacific R. R. and other officers de-
veloped that Nichols had been shot in the shoulder with a
.32 calibre pistol, a kind not used by train robbers, and his
brains literally beaten out with a car stove poker, which,
was returned to the hook where it belonged and where any
ordinary criminal would not have placed it after making the
use that was made of it.
These circumstances together with being unfavorably
impressed with the statements of Newton Watt, baggage-
man and Harry Schwartz, front brakeman of the train, led
to the suspicion that Nichols was killed by either Watt or
Schwartz because Nichols by tearing off the mask of the
robber had recognized the wearer. The following day on
the railroad tracks near Minooka, between Joliet and Mor-
ris, where Nichols was last seen alive, was found a mask
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wliom the “hold-ups” had obtained it. Our work resulted in
the additional arrest of La Liberty, a former railroad fire-
man, Dominick Hogan, an American Express messenger,
and his brother Edward Hogan, who had planned the rob-
bery. La Liberty made to me a confession that the stolen
money had been placed in his trunk at the depot, but on
searching the trunk we found only eleven hundred dollars.
It was then determined that the night depot master at Mar-
quette, Michigan, and a local livery stable keeper had stolen
the money from La Liberty's trunk, resulting in my re-
covering altogether $69,935.00 of the $70,000 stolen.
All of these men were convicted and sentenced to long
terms in the Michigan penitentiary.
In the fall of 1895, at Aquia Creek, Stafford County,
Virginia, two men, shortly after the train was under way,
boarded an express train, one the express car and the other
the locomotive, cutting the locomotive and express car from
the balance of the train, forcing the engineer to take them
a considerable distance where the express messenger was
overpowered, the safe blown and over ten thousand dollars
stolen, the “hold-up” men escaping, notwithstanding a battle
with a posse.
Shortly afterward a stranger displaying considerable
money, was arrested at Port Royal, Virginia, from whom
Robert A. Pinkerton, representing the express company,
who was investigating the robbery, obtained a confession.
The robber proved to be Charles J. Searcey, of Texas, and
he implicated Charles Morgan, alias Morganfield, whose
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arrest we brought about in Cincinnati. Searcey was sen-
tenced to ten years and Morganfield to seventeen years in
the Richmond, Va., penitentiary.
During 1902, 1903, 1904 and 1905, several train rob-
beries occurred in California, Colorado and Oregon. The
identity of the robbers could not be settled at the time bui
we eventually determined that they were committed by
George and Edward Vernon Gates, brothers of California.
who on March 15, 1905, at Lordsburg, New Mexico, with:
rifles attempted to commit a series of "hold-up" robberies
and wlio killed themselves when the officers attempted to
arrest them.
Pat Crowe, notorious as the kidnapper of Eddie Cudahy,
son of John Cudahy, the millionaire Omalia packer, for
which crime, through a miscarriage of justice, he was ac-
quitted and afterwards acknowledged being the abductor,
pleaded guilty to train robbery on the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy R. R. in 1894, about which time there were a
number of attempts upon trains in the vicinity of St. Joseph,
Mo. Crowe was supposed to have the Taylor brothers of
St. Joseph associated with him.
After these robberies we located Crowe in the Milwau-
kee Work-house, and had him held, charged with a diamond
robbery in Denver, Col. Before the extradition papers
arrived he sent for the officials of the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy R. R. and stated that he was concerned in the
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robberies near St. Joseph. Certain parts of his story ap-
peared very improbable to me and I went to Denver, made
arrangements with the police authorities to permit him o
plead to these train robberies in Missouri. The night the
arrangements were completed, Crowe escaped from the jail.
Crowe, after his escape, wrote me that all the statements
made by him were falsehoods. Later we caused his arrest
in Cincinnati. He was taken to St. Joseph, Mo., where he
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years in the Mis.
souri States Prison at Jefferson City, from which he wrote
letters to the railroad officials and myself, threatening to
kill all who had to do with his prosecution.
When his sentence expired in Missouri, Crowe was re-
turned to Denver for the diamond robbery, but through
friends it is claimed he compromised the matter.
Crowe has lately written a book telling how he com-
mitted some of his crimes. He claims he now intends to
atone for all the crimes he ever committed by demonstrat-
ing to the young the folly of criminal life.
He was lately tried for robbery in Council Bluffs, blit
acquitted.
One of the most notorious bands of train robbers and
bank "hold-ups" who operated in the West and Southwest,
from Wyoming to Texas from 1895 to 1902, was known
as “the Wild Bunch." After each robbery they would
hide in the “Hole in the Wall” country of Wyoming, and
after the excitement had blown over would return to thieu
headquarters in small cities of Texas.
This band from time to time included Tom Ketchanı,
alias “Black Jack," leader, who was hanged at Clayton, New


Mexico, April 26, 1901, for killing Sheriff Edward Farr, of
Whalensburg, New Mexico, who was attempting to arrest
him for a train "hold-up."
William Carver, alias “Bill” Carver, second leader,
killed April 2, 1901, while resisting arrest in Texas for a
murder committed at Sonora.
Sam Ketcham died June 24, 1900, in the Sante Fe, New
Mexico, penitentiary, of a wound inflicted by a posse of
officers attempting to arrest him for the robbery of the
Colorado Southern R. R. Co. at Cimarron, New Mexico.
Elza Lay, alias McGuinness, is now serving a life sen-
tence in the Sante Fe, New Mexico, penitentiary for par-
ticipation with “Black Jack” Ketcham in the Cimarron train
robbery.
Lonny Logan and Harvey Logan, alias "Curry broth-
ers.” Lonny was killed at Dodson, Mo., February 28, 1900,
while resisting arrest.
George Curry, alias “Flat Nose George,” third leader,
killed near Thompson, Utah, April 15, 1900, resisting ar-
rest by a Sheriff's posse.
Bob Lee, alias Bob Curry, now serving a ten-years
sentence in the Rawlins, Wyoming, State Penitentiary, for
the robbery of the Union Pacific train at Wilcox, June 2,
1899.
Among the bank and train robberies committed by the
“Wild Bunch” in recent years were: Butte County Bank,
member American Bankers' Association, Belle Fourche,
South Dakota, June 28th, 1897.
Union Pacific Express train "hold-up," Wilcox, Wyom-
ing, January 20, 1899.


afterward “held-up" the occupants of the saloon, backed
out of the rear door and jumped thirty feet into a railroad
cut, but was eventually traced and arrested in an exhausted
condition from cold, exposure and injury from his jump.
We subsequently identified this man as Harvey Currey,
alias Harvey Logan. Logan was convicted and sentenced to
a term of twenty years in the United States Penitentiary at
Columbus, Ohio, for uttering bank notes stolen at Wagner
on which notes the signatures had been forged. On Novem-
ber 29, 1902, while awaiting transfer to that institution, he
made his escape by "holding-up” the guards in the Knox-
ville jail; fleeing to the mountains on horseback. He has
not been recaptured.
O. C. Hanks, alias “Camila” Hanks, of Texas, another
one of this band, in Nashville, Tenn., on October 27, 1901,
offered a merchant one of these notes, circulars describing
which had been sent by us broadcast throughout the United
States. The merchant became suspicious and telephoned the
police who responded quickly, but Hanks, noting what oc-
curred, quickly drew a revolver, “held-up” the officer teni-
porarily, jumped into an ice wagon and forcing out the
driver drove rapidly down the street; abandoned the wagon
and at the point of his revolver captured a buggy and in
this escaped through the marshes to the Cumberland River,
where he forced two negroes to row him across in a boả:
and was lost trace of.
On April 17, 1902, he was killed by officers in the streets
of San Antonio, Texas, while resisting arrest. In 1892,
Hanks and Harry Longbaugh “held-up” a Northern Pacific
train in Big Timber, Montana, for which Hanks was ar-
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rested, convicted and sentenced to ten years in the Deer
Lodge Penitentiary, from which institution he was released
April 30, 1901, rejoining his old companions in “hold-up"
robberies.
“Butch” Cassidy with Harry Longbaugh and Etta Place,
a clever horsewoman and rifle shot, fled to Argentine Re-
public, South America, where they, it is said, have been
joined by Logan. Being expert ranch men they engagell
in cattle raising on a ranch they had acquired, located on
a piece of high table land from which they commanded a
view of 25 miles in various directions, making their capture
practically impossible. During the past two years, they
committed several “hold-up” bank robberies in Argentina
in which Etta Place, the alleged wife of Harry Longbaugh,
it is said, operated with the band in male attire. We advised
the Argentina authorities of their presence and location, but
they became suspicious of preparations for their arrest, fled
irom Argentine Republic and were last heard from on the
Southwest Coast of Chili, living in the wild open country.
Edward Estelle, alias “Conn. Eddie,” George Gordon,
alias “Brooklyn Blacky,” William Browning, alias
"Browney,” Thomas Clark, alias "Pa. Butch” and Johnny
Bull, all "yegg" men, on August 5, 1902, "held-up” a train
of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy R. R., near Marcus.
Ills., after subduing the engineer, fireman and conductor,
and shooting up and down the railroad track to intimidate
the passengers, secured three thousand dollars from the
Adams Express Company's safe in the baggage car.
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man's hat. Elias B. Haywood, the conductor, watching
what was occurring, found the “hold-up” robber off his
guard, grappled with him and both wrestled about the car
floor, but finally the robber released himself from the con-
ductor's grasp and disappeared out of the door on the plat-
form, the conductor firing several shots after him with the
robber's revolver which the conductor had captured during
the struggle. The conductor believed the robber had jumped
or fallen from the train which was running at forty miles
an hour, but on going on the car platform, found the “hold-
up” man crouching on the lower steps, gave him a severe
beating, pulled him back into the car and held him until the
train pulled in at Armstrong, Mo., where the police, having
been notified by the Glasgow operator, were in waiting.
The robber gave his name as Jesse Clyde Rumsey, and
claimed that his brother "held-up' the Chicago passenger
train near Glasgow, Mo., on November 8, 1906, at which
time a similar robbery was committed, and from whom he
received his instructions how to operate.
What I have maintained that no crime pays and that 95
per cent of criminals die in debt and frequently in want is
most aptly illustrated by the history of the “Hold-up” Rob-
ber.”
I know of few train robbers or "hold-ups" alive and out
of prison to-day. Only in a very limited number of in-
stances are these in comfortable circumstances and from
honest means only after giving up their lives of crime.
Crime does not pay!
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