The Russellville Democrat., 1893-08-03
HENRY STARTS WIFE.
The pecdliar Circumstances Under Which
 She First Met the Bandit.
4 LITTLE ROMANCE.
His Sister Highly Educated, Beautiful and Rehned-something of His
 Early life.

year has kept the Indian Territory,
 Kansas and Arkansas in perfect panic, with his numerous bank,
 store and train robberies, and who on the 4th inst in company with his pal, Kid Wilson, was captured at Colorado Springs, Colo, is one of the most wonderful characters that has ever been registered in the criminal records of the West. Starr Is nothing more than boy, only having passed his nineteenth birth
 day few weeks before his capture. Standing five feet eight inches in his
 stocking feet, smooth beardless
 face, heavy growth nt let
 black hair, with clear cut brows,
 from under which show pair
 of fearless black eyes It would be
 hard for stranger to associate this
 gentlemanly appearing Indian with
 the notorious Henry Starr, whose. name for the past few months has
 struck terror to tue hearts of the
 citizens in the northern portion of
 the Indian Territory as heartless
 tiend, who thought no more of shoot
 ing a human being than he would dog. He is credited with number
 of daring deeds and lawless rob-
 berries that well might be envied by
 all that desire reputation in this line. Among the recent sins that
 Starr will have to answer for, IS the
 Bentonville Bank robbery, the Cnel-
 sea station robbery, the robbery of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
 train at Pryor Creek, l. T the
 Clancy ville Bank robbery, the store robbery at Nowatah, I. T., and the
 store robbery at Choteau. There are other robber
 ies that Starr is charged with, but no positive evidence that he is guilty.
 A very pretty story is connected
 with the M K. & T. robbery. At the time of Starr's arrest he had with him, and who he claimed was
 his wife. very pretty young girl who appeared to be about Is years of age. The story as told by Starr and corroborated by his wife is to the effect that on the night of the Pryor Greek robbery she, in some
 way, perhaps through desire to see the great bandit, was in the crowd whom Starr and his gang marched in front of them to the edge of the town, and that when they had got at safe distance from the town and had made the citizens go back, she remained with them and begged the bandit chief to take her with him. As she was very pretty, and the attraction seemed to be mutual, hs hastily consented, and taking her up behind him on his horse Starr and his gang set out for their stronghold in the Nowatah mountains. The attrac- tion which had entered their minds under such novel circumstances after a better acquaintance ripened into love, and some weeks later they were married They are very fond of each other and she seems much affected by his arrest. Starr comes of one of the best connected fami- lies in the nation. He is distant relative of the notorious Tom Starr who, for many years after the war, led a life of crime and depreciation throughout the Indian Territory. His mother and sister are devoted to him with zeal that well deserves more worthy object. Miss Adna, his sister, is one of the most highly accomplished ladies in the Cherokee Nation, and is self made woman. After graduating in the high schools ot the nation she went East, and, after two years course, finished Oxford, since which time she has been teaching school among her own people. She is twenty two years of age, and is very attractive in appear ance as well as conversation. She says that Henry is not guilty of one- fourth that is laid 10 him, and that many charges will have to be with drawn on account of DO evidence Miss Starr has displayed queer characteristic by going into deep mourning since her brothers arrest, and never appears in any public 1 gathering, either social or religious. | She lives in Fort Gibson with her cousin, Miss Emma Mcdonald, who | is also devoted to her cousin Henry's calse Miss Mcdonald is considered the handsomest woman in the Chero kee Nation, a reputation which sbe Is justly entitled to, as she is a per feet combination of purity, beauty and intelligence, It is source of much wonder how Starr, with such 1 elevating home influences, ever got | started in the road of crime, but from the fact that his father died while he was yet quite young. evil associations in connection with the natural craving for excitement re- culiar to his race, it is quite easy to imagine how easily it was for him to be led into crime, and after being initiated he soon learned to ply the vocation to perfect success. Young Starr has had a preliminary hearing before Judge Parker at Fort Smith on most of the charges made against him, and in every instance has been bound over to await the action of the grand jury. While Starr has the sympathy and good will of most of the people here who