El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-21
A CHECKERED CAREER.

A CHEChEREC CAREER.
The story OF one of the most daring
female bandits who ever lived and OPP
Grated in the southwest, as told by the
Chicago Record, is as follows:
Pearl Hart, according to her own
story, was born in the village of Lind
say, Ontario. At the age Of 16 years,
while attending boarding school she
eloped with and'married a man she had
only met few times. After q brief
honeymoon her husband drove her
away from him and she returned to her
mother in Ontario. But when her hus-
band sent for her she went to him.
Just as the Worlds fair closed in
Chicago in 1893, Pearl Hart, then %
years old, again parted from her hus-
band and went to Trinidad, Colorado.
From there she drifted south to Phoen-
TX, Ariz., where she met her husband
face to face on the street. She
was not then, she says, the innocent
girl he had enticed from school, mother
and friends. Still she went back to
him knowing that she would after q
few day meet with cruel treatment.
But Harris kindness this time lasted
for three years, during which time
girl was born to them, boy having
come the first year Of their marriage.
Another quarrel a third time separat-
ed the pair. Then Pearl Hart sent
her children to her mother and she
went east. where she secured home as
servant IN a family. Two years later,
however, Hart found his wife, and she
followed him to Tucson. Then Hart
enlisted in McCord's regiment and
the woman went to Phoenix, where she
made several attempts on her life.
From Phoenix she shifted into the
mining camps and was running min
er's eating house when Hart showed
up again, having followed his wife to
Globe. But she refused to live with
him.
On the top of all her other troubles
of her mother. Then she took shovel
and pick and went to work as q miner
to try to make money to send for her
children. But there was nothing in
the claim she was working, and Joe
Root persuaded her to join him in rob
bling the Globe stage. Pearl Hart tells
the story of the robbery as follows:
son the afternoon of the robbery we
took our horses and rode over the
and at last hit the Globe road. We
rode along slowly until we came to q
bend in the road, which was a most ia
vorable spot for our undertaking. Then
we went forward On q slow walk, till
we saw the stage coming around the
bend. We then pulled to one side of
the road. Joe drew a "45' and said.
Throw up your hands" I drew my
little '3S' and likewise covered the oc
cupants Of the stage. Joe said to me,
Get off your horse 1 did so, while he
kept the people covered. He ordered
them out of the stage. They were q
badly scared outfit. 1 learned how
easily a job of this kind could be done.
Joe told me to search the passeng-
ers for arms. 1 carefully went through
them all. They had no pistols. Joe mo-
toned toward the stage. l advanced
and searched it, and found the brave
passengers had left two of their guns
behind them when ordered out of the
stage. Really, can't see why men car
~ revolvers, because they almost
Invariably give them up at the very
time they were made to be used. They
certainly don't want revolvers for play
things. l gave Joe the 'forty-four'
and kept the 'forty-fve' for myself.
Joe told me to search the passengers
for money. did so, and found on the
fellow who was shaking the worst three
hundred and ninety dollars. This fell