, 1900-09-13
knows THE TRAIN ROBBERS.
U. S. Marshal, Joseph Lsfors
Acquainted With Men Engaged in
The Last u. p. Hold Up
And Also at Wilcox. =
Did Not Get Much in The. Last Haul.

bart of the state the past week in
search of parties charged with set
ing forest fires, is we'll acquaint-
ID with some of the men engaged
In the Wilcox train robbery as
well as some that are believed to
have been engaged in the hold up
it Upton. In conversation with
\ representative of this paper Mr..
Lefors said:
81 think l know personally the
most of the men engaged in the
rain robbery at Wilcox and ALEC
! Il least three of tho four engaged
n the Upton hold up. 1 came to
johnston county. Wyoming, from
Texas when 1 was but a lad, along
3vith a bunch of cattle driven from
hat state and l remained there
Tor a number of years. l was rid
tng for the company l worked for
hearty all the time and got ac-
uainted with all the boys engage
ID in that work and the most of
Them were pretty tough cases. OF
course l was onto all of their
crooked work and they knew it
,hnd had no great love for me. for
4 kept my employers posted.
When the country became too hot
for them they took to the Hole
fn.the Wall-a country of which I
know every foot-and became out
'laws.
"In the course of time l invest
led my little savings in a bunch of
cattle and those boys didn't do a
thing but just rob me blind-I
came out with less than 40 head
lin the end-and l quit the coun-
try for a time. Afterwards I was
appointed brand inspector for that
part of the country. Then / went
to those boys and said: I am 60
ling to do my duty now and if you
don't quit rustling I will send
every last one o. you to the PEN
"Some of them took me at my
word, Strengthened up and were
friends and allies ever after
ward. Some are now doing time,
the rest are outlaws and are engage
I'D in bank robbing, train robbing
pr anything that promises danger
Pnd booty:
when the bank of Belle Four
ehe robbery was committed the
Fobbers made straight for the
Hole-in the Wall country. After
satisfying myself that they were
there-I had II man with them all
of the time-I wrote Mr.. Hadsell
and he came up. AS there was
ten of them 1 advised Hadsell
that we could not well handle
them with a less number of men,
SO he went back to Cheyenne to
make preparations to go after
them in force. In the mean time
they had holed up in an almost
inaccessible place in the Big Horn
mountains and, a very heavy snow
having fallen, 1 wrote Mr.. Hadscll
not to come, as they could only
be reached on snow shoes and as
they had, just previous to the
storm, driven in Six beeves, l was
sure they would stay there until
spring. / kept a close watch
on them, but along in May 1
suddenly missed them. / rode
high and low, but could get
no trace of them. l notified the
b. & M. road to protect themselves
or they would be held up. In a
few days the hold up at Wilcox
took place.
"No," he said, in response to a
question, they have not gotten
all of the men engaged in the
Wilcox hold up. They have
three-there were six of men en-
engaged in that work-of them
One, Lonni" Currie, his real name
was Lonnie Logan was killed in
Missouri, near Kansas City
George Currie was killed in Utah,
and the other one, Bob Lee, who
also went by the name Of BOZ
Currie, was caught in Cripple
Creek and is now doing time al
Laramie. But there we're three
of whom we had mn des.rintion