The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-11-08

express car was blown to splinters with
dynamite and $4,000 in cash and a quar-
tity of unsigned currency of the First Ma.
tfonal Bank of Portland, Or, was secured
Sheriff Josiah Hazen of Converse Coun-
tty, Wyoming, led a posse in pursuit OF
the tn robbers Eobbers, but two days after the hold
killed in fight with the outlaws. The
murderers got away and reached the
Hole in the Wall' country, where put
suit was impossible.
The Pinkerton agency was set to work
by the railroad company. superintendent
George b. Savers. who is now located in
San Francisco, took UP the work Ha
traced the gang from the "Hole in the
Wall'' country through Wyoming. Utah.
Kansas, Colorado Arizona Arkansas.
Mississippi and back TO Arizona. where
the trail was lost. as the gang dispersed
Some time afterward the Pinkertons
heard of the robbers as being in the
swamps of Mississiippi, and the hunt be
sleuths followed the human game and
traced them to Cripple Creek. CoI1.
When the Pinkerton men arrived there
the gang had again dispersed. but the
officers went to Dodson. n suburb of Kan
sas City. where the fa miles of the Logan
boys resided. They. found, Lonny Logan
there and in resisting arrest he was shot
The day following R. E.. Curry. alias
Bob Lee was arrested at Cripple Creek
bv the Pinkerton men, He was tried fo-
| ne train 1ODpoTy III WILCOX. WVO. and
DESPITE strong a1ibi he was convicte1
and sentenced TO fourteen years in the
penitentiary. The Pinkertons broke the
alihti down COMPLETELY when IT looked as
if the robber would be acquitted
With Lonny Logan dead and Bob Curry
IN prison the search was then taken up
for Harvey Curry. or Logan. and George
Curry two of the ringleaders. George
Curry was overtaken by Sheriff Preece
Of Wyoming and was killed by the officer
IN battle on the Snake River on April
u. 1900 The brave officer was rewarded
by the Pinkertons. but he was foully
murdered from ambush three weeks later
hy Harvey Logan. or Curry, George
Parker, alias Butch Cassidy and 9TH
ers.
Blew Car to Splinters.
Union Pacific train at Upton. Mont. The
express car was blown to splinters by
dynamite. but the robbers only secured
5000 in cash, the expected consignment of
coin not being on the train. The robbers
left seventy pounds of dynamite behind
them. and again the railroad company
offered large reward for the capture OF
being especially wanted.
Although the whole country was
warned to look out for Harvey Logan, or
Curry, the murderer and outlaw evade |
arrest, and was next heard of on Novem
Der 49, 1900, when in company with George
Parker. alias Butch Cassidy, and Har
ry Longbaugh. alias Harry Alonzo.' he
robbed the First National Bank Of win l1o
nemucca, New. Two of the robbers stood
in front of the bank firing revolvers and
shotguns. while the third outlaw force /
Cashier Nixon at the point of pistol to
open the vault The robbers secured SIC. 600
In gold and notes and escaped to their
hiding place IN the Hole in the Wall
country, in Wyoming.
On July last the gang held up Great
Northern express train at Wagner, Mont
One of the robbers boarded the blind
baggage car as the train was leaving
Malta. He crawled over the tender, COW
cred the engineer and fireman with re-
was then Joined by his companions in
crime. Amid fusillade of shots the ex-
press car was blown open and the safe
rif1ed. Unsigned notes to the amount OF
$4,000 were secured. but despite pursuit
the robbers reached their hiding place in
the Hole in the Wall country On their
journey they stopped at the ranch CO
Colonel Jim Winters. and within ten fent
Of the spot where the brave rancher had
killed John Logan, one of the gang. six
years previously the robbers avenged
their comrades death by foully shooting
the rancher to death.
Again the trail of the outlaws was
taken UP by the Pinkertons. but though
the search carried them through Wyo-
ming and Montana the clew was lost for
sued and sent all through the Middle
West and South. The circulars con-
tanned pictures of Harvey Logan. George
Parker, o. C. Hanks and Harry Long
baugh. together with their descriptions.
ed In Nashville Tenn. while trying to
pass some of the stolen unsigned notes
taken from the Northern Pacific train last
July.
Outlaw Makes His Escape.
She gave her name as Annie Rodgers
and was dressed stylshly and wore much
jewelry. She refused to give an account
of herself but said that q blonde man