The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-05-29
A New Band Of Outlaws Who are
Getting Notorious as the
Daltons.
Tho Brief Career OF the Young
Half Breed Cherokee
Leader.
Nurdor OF Capt. Floyd Wi'son-Tho Caney
sank Affair and tho Pryor Creek
Train Robbery.

b00 VRuu bl1 HuOutuHs beOA -
many sensational dispatches since no killed
Capt. FLOYD Wilson last December. and she
STAIR gang" is becoming as noted 40 we're
the Daltons. Tho history OF Henry ss"rf
cnn be told in q few woids He 10 nearly .
half breed Che okee. about FL years OF age.
His mother resides Mt Nownts' Cherokee
Nation. and his father. who was . broshor
OF Judge Watt Starr, of Coo-veo-scoo-Wee
district, Cherokee Nation. has been dead
some time. Henry's first oaenso was in
~treduoing and selling whisky In tho Indian
country, snd for this no was arrested at tho
Delaware payment in the spring OF 1892.
He gave bond with his uncle. Watt Starr,
as security. and returned TO his home.
Some time after this the express office at
Nowata was robbed one night, and Henry
was cha ged with being one of tho robbers.
This caused him 10 ''Ro on the scout" and
his pond ON The whisky charge was for
feitsd.
The express company sent out a dstsc:ive
named Dickey to capture him, and Dickey
came to this city and secu'ed the services oil
Capt. Floyd Wilson. @ brave and fearless
ex-deputy marshal, to 90 with him in quest
of Starr. While Dickey and Wilson We .
tAA luE ulG ~ u y uoe~O
ity Of Starts haunts, the young ma him
self came riding by. Wilson rushed out
and mounted 4 horse that was standing
hitched near by and gave ohnse. Tho pony
Starr was riding was inferior to the horse
upon which Wilson WAS mounted. aud no
gained rapidly upon the fleeing outlaw. who
stopped in tho prairie and made a stand be-
hind lis pony. Wilson also dismounted
and quite a pnrley ensued. starr declaring
thai he would rot surrender and wilson
commanding him TO do 30. During this
parley on the open plairie both men hal
their Winchesters down on each other. Al
last Wilson fred At starr. and the naht
was on. A shell hung in Wilson's gun. and
he was at the mercy Of his adversary. who
wac making every shot tell. while Wilson
was endeavoring to defend himself with
his six-shooter. The result vas that tho
brave officer fell dead, pierced with nvs
means failed to get within cunshot d's-
lance OF Starr, who took the horse Wilson
was riding and escaped.
starr is also charged with having robbed
Carter's store At SeQuayah. forty miles west
Of Novata, shortly after the expos rob
goes over the wires as lsauinR the starr
gang. said to 10 coml osed OF Ed New
combe, . young Delaware Indian; Jesse
jackson n Charles Bruno both white
men, aud they were charged with roDbinx n
train At Wharton, a station on the Strip.
This ia all a mistake, 80 far az Starr is con-
eerned, as jackson was badly wounded and
captured by officers of the United Stntea
court at this place. and while In jail here
recovering from the effects of the amputa-
himself, Ed NewcoInbs and Brungr hold up
the train at Wharton on the night of the
presidential election, and shat starr was
not Tin it," Nswcombe and Bruner 50
rendered to ot1iosrs of this cont. and to-
Rether with Jackson we're taken to Guth IL
on q W it OF removal and have since entered
pleas OF guilty. getting on with sWo years
each in the psnltentiary.
Then came the bank robbery at Caney,
Kan, which was at once laid to STAR and
Nswcombe. Newcombe surrendered hs's a
few days after the Caney robbery. and It at
once developed that he was not In that.
and the superstition at present IL that Starr
and a man known az Pickle Simons were
the guilty parties. as they were seen TO-
gcther in the vicinity OF Cansy just before
she robbery. Next the wires were loaded
for a day or 90 with tine news of the Pryor
Creek train robbery on the night of the 1st
inst, and it 10 at once laid aS the door OF
the ''Htarr gang" where it very likely be-
longs. though tlere is no positive evidence
of this being the case. On tho night fol-
lowing this robbery Marshal Yoss was noti-
fed tina Starr and i've other men wars ut
Nowatn, and a. six men committed the
Pryor Greek outrage, it was supposed to be
tho gang, as they had ample time to tide
from Pryor's Greek to NoWata, u distance
of perhaps fifty miles. On Saturday, May
6. starr and " comrades took dinner at
his mothers house in Nowata, and he got
his horse shod.
While there Is no question as to Starts
devslopment from = young, froiiosome lad
of twenty summers into Il dangerous and
daring outlaw. whose identity can be easily
established aud at least some of his Grimes
easily proven, the question as to who the
members OF his gang are. il he has AL or
Ranizsd gang. 10 one that at this time can
not be answered, A6 no enc seems to know
who they are. Ever since the killing Of
Wilson. Starr has been frequently heard of,
fitting hore and there through tho coun-
Try, sometimes at one place and sometimes
at another. He hAs been often seen in
different towns. and is most generally
alone. Coming from = prominent family
of Cherokess. ho has friends all through
the section Of country he frsquents, and
they keep him posted 40 to the movements
Of officers who. may be in the country,
which makes it an easy matter for him to
slude them, even il they were ON his trail,
though IL 10 not known that any of them
have got IN his way since the tsegio death
OF Floyd Wilson.
4AOSo - oV0tCUsy y 0OuUt Oub WO6t d0nxY
was one Of the Pryor Creek robbers, but
Who his comrades were 10 not known.
though they were no doubt Young fellows
of . rsckless disposition who joined him
for this special occasion: The names of
his cousin. Jack starr, Bill Dalton and q
young man named WATSON have been men
tioned as probable participants. The
Pryor Greek robbery occurred on Mo.day
night. On Saturday previous, at Draop's
twenty-five miles this side Of Wagoner'
Jack Starr had . shooting sornps with a
negro deputy marshal named Rosa in
which the latter seems TO have been the
aRQressor; and II Jack was with Henri nj
the robbery he must have joined him only
short time befo y il occurred. Yet there
are men who say they saw the two To.
Rether the day following the hold-nr.
The careers OF such charaeters as Tho
Dnltons lead young men with ambitions
In that direction to sock notoristy OF thia
kind-thsy want TO be heroes; TO have ,hei,
names paraded in tho public prints a. dsr.
Ing dsspe1adoes whose very names strike
terror TO these with whom they come in
contact in their wild career. In the Indian
ountry there 10 plenty OF material with
which to make train robbers. Most of them
start out In the same way young Stare did.
They visit the bordering towns in tho state :,
purchase whisky and take it into their own
county for speculative purposes. beeoming
whisky psddlsrs contrary to law. and thore
10 money in It. They dsal in u cheap Crude
OF whisky for which they End a ready mat
ket Mt 81 y quart. or they buy a!suhol, say
. gallon. out Of which they can make four
or five gallons Of red liquor by colorinu
and reducing 10, for which thoy wet RI n