Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-06-27


to dozen in each raid.
Close uron the heels OF Sam Bass
followed the O'Conneil gang, organ
lied and raiding in and around the
Chichasaw country. A part Of this
band were killed by officers and set
tiers, and the leader, Dan O'Connell,
was captured, tried at Wichita, sen
fenced to long term In the peniten-
| tiary, where lie Is now delving In the
coal mines for the government. a
unique member Of this band, who has
| lately been sent to prison, was Bill
Wade. Bill was a most unromantic
outlaw, and after his pals We're laid py
he took to stealing hogs along the bor-
der OF the territory and Kansas. a
really romantic and picturesque figure
was that Of George Stevens. He was
an educated southener, one Of the
| Chesteifieldian order, who would
apologize to You while cutting your
throat or turning your purse inside
out. He had beautiful Wife, who
preferred sharing lis exciting and lis
graceful career to wedding some re-
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one indeed. For year or niore Capt.
Stevens, assisted by two bu'ly negroes,
NAMED July Monday and Burly July,
| terrorized the territory. they stole
horses and cattle, robbed stages and
| trains and Waylaid lone travellers.
Suddenly, without any apparent cause,
| these depredatiofis ceased, and peace
| and quiet reigned. This calm was I'M
| accountable 10 the officers and the pub
| lie, until one day July Monday was
| found murdered at Purcell, and his
/ Indian mistress informed tie officers
| that his death lay at the door of Burly
| July, and also that George Stevens
dered by these tiends, and the bodies
1 cast into 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. BIrly July had murdered
Monday to prevent his disclosing this
| story. The black desperate was cap
tured by Bin Carr after hard fight,
and explated his crime ON the gallows
| at Little Rock, Ark.
/ Then Belle Starr fitted across The
prairie stage. During the war she was
rebel spy; afterward she married a
/ Union officer. He died and Belle
drlfted west, became the mistress of
Cole Younger, and by him had one
child, beautiful girl named Pearl
Younger. Cole Younger was Jesse
James right-hand man, and is now a
/ prisoner in the Minnesota peniten-
! tiary at saltwater. Belle became a
faro bank dealer on the border She
tiitteG from place to place, finally
winding up as mistress to an Indian
named Jim Starr, noted desperate.
Desperate and lawleSs, she became a
terror and killed many men in barroom
! fights. III was also declared that she
| was the leader of 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 border gambling
town. Her husband continued his
! lawless career until he, too, was shot
to death.
Tom King" is a woman who has
caused the officers lots of trouble.
Tom" Is woman and is now at lib
| erty. She steals horses shoots deputy
marshals and mashes all her jaiers so
/ they let her escape. There is a large
reward offered for her apprehension
I and arrest. Ii is only short time
| since she escaped from the FL Reno,
! ok, jail in broad daylight the iailer
/ 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 10
steal horses, although she is also de-
| clared to be a member Of the present
Cook gang of express robbers. She
dresses like dashing cowboy one
! day, squaw the next, and has even
been known to peddle tracts among
| the Indians, acting as a missionary.
| Her DISCUSSES are endless and size is
terror 10 the officers.
! The Daltons had long run. EN-
nett, Bob and Grafton belonged to the
original band. the latter two of which
We're killed at Coffeyvfiie, Kan, and
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 out
ana captured. Then followed -four
months of peace, Bill Dalton was a
respectable farmer, but soon fell from
grace. and in company with Bill
Doolan and other desperadoes he took
his lately deceased brothers place in
the outlaw ranks. Although there are
now no more of the Daltons on the
waIpath. there are members of their
bands Still IN existence.
The Cooks. the present outfit making
trouble la the country, are the rem
nants " all the bands that have gone
before. Those who escaped death
from tile first Dalton gang joined Bill