Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-12-20
Rod Rube,s career.

| Rube Burrows, the outlaw VINO
was captured in Alabama few days
AGO, and was shot while attempting
~ escape from custody, had a career
riyaling that Of Jesse James.
Altogether Burrows had robbed
nine trains in three states, had Killed
several and wounded many men with
his deadly Winchester, and had whip
cd 100 armed men in open fight. In
like most train robbers, Burrows had
no gang. lie usually worked with
only the one confederate, Joe Jack
son. Indeed, he had often said
contemptuously ITS rs easy TO
hold up and go through a train ms y
i ~ rob 4 hens nest" "Red RUDE.
as ne was called in the terrorized re-
gion he lived in, was physically
splendid specimen Of manhood. lie
wns about 80 years ofage, and stood
& feet / inch in his stocking feet,
weighing 175 pounds.
Burrows was born in Lamar coun.
ty, Alaba ma, in 1855. where his ia
ther Allan Burrowsstill lives. The q.
der Burrows wanted his son tostudy
, for the bar. When RUDE lett the dis
. trict school his father proposed the
, subject, but he did not fall in with Il
readily shortly after he went 10
} Texas, where he subsequently mar
ried and settled down on a small
i farm. In 1856 his wife died, and
/ shortly after no launched on his Wild
/. career. He began BY a chiyalrous
!, attempt to rob an Indian woman.
) With his Younger brother Jim,
and man named Thornton, and an
i other named Bromly, he went up IN
, 10 the Nation" 70 rob the dusky
' daughter OF an oppressed race. But
: the woman was something 81 a des.
. psradu herself, and from her cntrrnch,
ed position n her house opened such
h lively fire that they concluded 10
Z retreat. On the way baek they met
II a train stopping 10 take water ~ a
Il little station, and after shooting "A
I few times ut the conductor. they rob,
b tad the passengers Unfortunately
"a the r1iurcd porter had anticipated
them. 40 they got but 5000
With this Same party tonre men
toned be faw days later robbed 4
train Oh the Texas paeiHa roAl. and
r. got q lntrly good -Hm from tbs eE
II press car Eubs and hts brother then
i. went 20 Arkansas, hnt iii December
1857, robbed Il train nrar IeNuran
ma, % ting d large slU Then thrg
I. went back ID the OIL homestead 10
= Alabama to enjoy short rest
While on this vacation they ono inl
" went TO Montgomery 20 attend netg
:" Gus When they got on ths train 0tt
:, crrA attempted 10 arrest thom Tn,
Y, brothers ran. but lin was tnptnrcs
A and subsequently sent a. I.tttlp fin
g jor trial but died IN pill Rabe how
n ever. kept on running and shooting
~ back. Every time b. 4hut one 81
NJ more policemen bit tho dust, nud ii
4, easily made his Escape llube nsx
- turned his attention to Mississippi
!, trains, aud last December rubhe,
~ ono On tho Illinois Central road a
Il; Duck Hill, getting nearly S2u 900
i iig was assisted this ttme by on
II Joseph Jackson Ia July last Inck
~ son was captured. nud Is now 10 til
IN Mississippi ponItentiary.
u, His next exploit was the murder q
Postmaster tirny az Jewell, Alh. nm
:, his Inst the robbery 81 the Mobile
IA Ohio train near Buchatnnn.
Ill Even IN his dcnth Burrows wns nj
III exponent Of the desperate policy tina
~ made him infamous. Tied iast, ham
yn and foot, IN Jail, his cruel but nctiy
a.. brnin suggested last suprrhumn
IN. effort Ior liberty. I'm hungry" h
~ said.
,re We have nothing foryou, reptile
~ his jailers.
~. There are some crackers in m
ID snddlebags, II you will give Thorn {
me.
M The snddlebngs we're carclcaal
~ tossed to the prisoner, md IN m,
H.. ment the inilers we're staring into IN
IA omnous muzzles Of a brarc Of henv
nn revolvers.
Unite my hands and iCgt. " con
manded Burrows, and the commnn
was obeycd with alacrity ifnot wit
cheeriulness, and in Il moment mo,
to the robber was in the open air nm
,ct. rushing toward the ncighborinp h,
The tel to recover the money taken fror
1re hls person when he was capture,
lex But hero was a fatal error for Bu
lch rows. The man in charge ofthe MOI
ned ~ was ns cool ns rohher. and b
ess lore Burrows could drop him ba
ps. had tonnd tho heurt OF the william
ain p hundred dnstardly exploits. An
do IN m hour tho telegraph had inforr
yer ~ the whole country that Rcd Rul
ed, Burrows was dend