Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-06-27

these depredatiolls ceased. and peace
and quiet reigned. This calm was IN
accountable TO the officers and the pub
lie, until one day July Monday was
found murdered at Purcell, and his
Indian mistress informed the officers
that his death lay at the door of Burly
July, and also that George Stevens
and his pretty wife had both been muir
dered by these fiends, and the bodies
cast into a snake den in the mountains.
The den was located and visited by
a posse, and sure enough, the bones Of
the dead couple were found as the
squaw said. BUrly July had murdered
Monday to prevent his disclosing this
story. The black desperate was cap
tured by Bill Carr after hard tight,
and eXpiated his crime on the ganows
at Little Rock, Ark.
Then Belle Starr fitted across The
prairie stage During the war she was
a rebel spy; afterward she married a
Union officer. He died and Belle
drifted west, became the mistress of
Cole Younger, and by him had one
child, a beautiful girl named Pearl
Younger Cole Younger was Jesse
James right-hand man, and is now a
prisoner in the Minnesota peniten-
Iiary at Saltwater. Belle became a
faro bank dealer on the border She
lifted from place to place, finally
winding up as mistress to an Indian
named Jim Starr, a noted deSpera do.
Desperate and laWleSS, she became a
terror and killed many men in barroom
fights. 1t was also declared that she
was the leader of a notorious band of
express robbers then in operation.
She was ambuScaded and killed sew
eral years ago while riding to her
home in the mountains, after escorting
her husband to a border gambling
town. Her husband continued his
| laWless career until he, too, was shot
| to death.
Tom King is a woman who las
| caused the officers lots of trouble
! Tom is a woman and is now at lib.
erty. She steals horses, shoots deputy
marshals and mashes all her jailers sc
/ they let her escape. There is large
| reward offered for her apprehension
and arrest. 1t is only a short time
since she escaped from the Ell Reno
Ok, Jail in broad daylight, the jailel
/ clipping with her. The first night out
she robbed him of his money, watch
| and outfit and left him bound hand
and foot on the prairie, where he was
| was found next day. Her mania is tC
steal horses, although she is also de
| clared to be a member Of the present
i Cook gang Of express robbers. She
dresses like a dashing cowboy one
| been known to peddle tracts among
the Indians, acting as a missionary
Her DISCUSSES are endless and she is
a terror to the officers.
! The Daltons had long run. En-
NETT, Bob and Grafton belonged to the
original band, the latter two of which
were killed at Coffeyville, Kan, anC
the former is now in the penitentiary
| They had made raid on the banks
of the town, and in the fight that en-
sued the entire crowd were wiped on
and captured. Then followed fou
months OF peace. Bill Dalton was {
respectable farmer, but soon fell from
! grace, and in company with Bill
!! Dooian and other desperadoes he tool
his lately deceased brothers place il
the outlaw ranks. Although there ar
now no more of the Daltons on the
j warpa TIL, there are members of thei
i bands still in existence.
Il The Cooks, the present outfit making
81 trouble i'll the country, are the rem
nantS Of ali the bands that have gOn'
before. Those who escaped deaf
i from the first Dalton gang joined Bill
i Dalton's second outfit, and after hi
j death these men enlisted with TIT
i Cooks. In the latter band are owe
i thirty desparadOeS, the toughest O.
i all the bands that have gone before
! The Daltons would spare life in trou
i bic. The Cooks shoot on sight, ant
I care nothing for the life of man
woman, or even little child. The.
/ are the terror of the entire territory
! and guards in the express cars do no
care to try their nerve while these mel
live. They have been hunted lik
j wild animals, and now they are NOR
4 savage than the tiger.
i Women of all nations, as tough a
i they are themselves, are known con
sorts Of these men. The worst anon:
!, the desperadoes of today are Jim Cook
i Bill Doolan, "Slaughter" Kid, tn
STAIRS and DR.. McLOwry.