The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-02-28
The Greatest Highwayman
on the American Con-
tinent.
Recent Dspredations of the
Notorious Dave Rude
baugh.
He Robs q Train NearEl Paso, and
Captures an Arizona Stage
Coach.

The James boys are daring train
robbers, fearless highwaymen and all
that, but here is man who has not
q peer even in the tales of Turpin
romance.
1t was Gen. r. A. Cameron. the
postofice special agent for this depart
ment, who spoke. He tilted back in
mis- Office chair and held up to view a
letter which he had just finished
geading.
"YOu remember the train robbery
which occurred near Ell Paso about
six weeks ago, and the subsequent
stopping of a stage coach near Tomb
stone. Arizona"
Eyes"
"Well, both robberies were enshroud.
ed in mystery, and We were at a loss
TO even imagine who had committed
them. Here [ have information which
convinces me that the outlawed Dave
Rrdebaugh, the old-time partner of
Billy the Kid, is the culprit. He has
again organized a gang of highway
men. After having perpetrated the
Two robberies named, he went into old
Mexico for safety, and there will
doubtless remain for some time
Rudebaugh is the most fearless and in
genious criminal that | ever met. but
New Mexico has grown too warm for
him. He knows that, and being as
cautious as he is courageous, he will
not modest that section again until the
coast is clear.
''Rudebaugh, you know, was close
partner to Billy. the Kid and he
was captured with the latter year
ago last fall. The causes for and in
cidents of the capture are well known.
The Kid was wanted for many MUIR
ders. Rudebaugh was wanted for re-
peated and extensive road robberies.
The Kid and Rudebaugh were then
the leaders of strong gang of des-
peradoes. When the pursuing party
overlook them there were nine in the
outlaw party. In the fight which en-
sued one of the outlaws was killed,
five of them fed and escaped, the
Kid. Rudebaugh and Billy Wilson,
the notorious one hundred dollar bill
counterfeiter, we're captured. Owing
to some technicality in his trial he has
not vet been convicted. Billy the
Kid was sentenced to hang, killed his
jailer, Bob Ollinger, the brave man
who led the capturing posse-and es-
capped from Jail, numbering three
other men, and was finally run down
and killed by Pat Garrett in Next
cans cabin.
-'Dave Rudebaugh vas tried in the
United States court on several in
dictments for having robbed the mails,
was convicted and sentenced to life
imprisonment. Rudebaugh, while in
Jail at Las Vegas, some time previous.
awaiting trial for robbery, led an es-
cape Of his fellow prisoners. 1t was a
bold dash, one of those breaks that
desperate men often make in the face
of all possible odds. The guard
opened fire upon the conspirators, and |
one of the escaping party. who had
secured pistol, returned the volley. !
killing a jailer. After Rudebaugh's |
conviction in the federal court, the !
state authorities claimed and tried him |
for the murder Of the jailer. He was
convicted on that charge and sem
fenced to hang. Tae United States
officers then took the case to the SUI
preme court for the reclamation of
Rudebaugh and the enforcement of
the original sentence. Pending a de-
cision Rudebaugh escaped a second
time from the Las Vegas Jail. He
undermined the wall from his cell and |
liberated the minority Of the prison
ers. The man who committed the |
murder for which Rudebaugh was SEN
fenced to hang, died in his boots in
al Arizona dlnce hall.
:sThat WAS a peculiar fact. AL
though bonded together by some
and inssparable in their |
travels. Billy the Kid and Rude
bauyn always detested each other. |
The difference between them was
singular AMI striking. TIE Kid rev.
eled in blo)dshed. MURDERS and cat.
tie thieving, an RIieb.uyh fatters
him ELF that he never kilIei anybody.
is Drawer than WAS the
Kid, AMI despite the fact that the
Kil-alxiys held him in coate npt for
being ely innocent Of murder,
he admired him for his in1omit1ble
courage wieu the emergency was of
the most dangerous nature. Rude
,l1gl will box iaSo the p;s5oi m ,uth
xitlDlt dinciiu.; the XII would
tatisc mlrder ann By al assas,in's
shot thin to face his victim in the