The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1896-11-30
CRIPPLE CREEKS BOSS.
The End OF Had Man Marshall's Reign In
That Mining Camp.


The End OF had Man MarshaIrs Reign In
That Mining Camp.
A telegram from Cripple Greek. Colo
says that the town board of that place
has removed from Office Town Marshal
James Marshall and Deputy Thomas
Clark for malfeasance in Office. This
means the dethronement of the king of
Cripple Creek, for, since it has been
Cripple Greek, Marshall has been boss
of the camp. Marshall is one of the
characters of the west. and, like all the
rest Of the western bad men, he at one
time honored Kansas City with his
presence.
Marshall's long suit was never the
killing of men. He showed decided
preference for other mons money rather
than their lives, and while. the police
have all kinds Of stories about Four
Fingered Jim, and while he has been
in trouble of all sorts and sizes, it is
believed there are no notches on his
gun. He came to Kansas City early i'll
boom times from Chicago, which had
grown either too hot or too tame for
him. Soon he had the reputation of be-
ing the toughest bartender in town.
Every crook who came to Kansas City
seemed to know him, and he was al
ways surrounded by a choice crowd.
Naturally he soon opened saloon at
his own. For time he ran q joint ut
the corner Of Eighteenth and Main
streets, and later ran saloon at the
corner of Sixth and Broadway. His sa-
loon was always the headquarters for
the most desperate crooks in the west.
John Bull, the famous gold brick man,
was one Of his bosom friends, and Tom
O'Brien, the boss crook of them all,
whose adventures all over the world
have been the subject CT thousand
stories and who now languishes in a
French Jail for the murder of pal in
Paris, was also friend of Colonel Mar
shall during his Kansas City days.
The police always suspected Marshall
Of planning and having finger in ev-
cry robbery or confidence game commit
ted anywhere near Kansas City, but
they could never land him. Finally
some of his friends learned that a wom-
an in Kansas City had stolen large
sum of iaoney, and they pretended to
be United States marshals and took her
into Kansas, where they robbed her and
let her 60.
Marshall's foot came very near get
ting in this, and he left town. He went
to Denver and figured in a celebrated
train robbery case there. He was SEN
fenced to the penitentiary, but finally
secured O rehearing, and in some way
got away, then he went to Cripple
Greek, which was just becoming pros
porous mining camp. He had no trou-
BILE in convincing the miners that he
knew every crook In the west, and upon
the principle of "set q thief to catch o
thief he was chosen marshal.
Since then Marshall has run the town
with high hand. With his winches'
ter always in his hand and q crowd Of
the toughest men OH earth at his back,
he has terrorized the respectable citi-
xens and made crime of all kinds pay
him liberal tribute. Repeated efforts
have been made to get rid OF him, but
until now he has held on. AT one time
there were many of his kind in the west
He is one of the last. He has plenty of
money now. he may settle down. If he
should decide, like other great men in
their old age, to write his own biogra-
ply and give his "reminiscences. it would
be an exciting yarn. Kansas City