The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-15

pulled oil his water-logged boots and was drying them before the wood fire. Com ing to the door with his boots Tn ms hand. he saw the men around the mouse.
 At the command, Hands up, ne oe- liberately darted out of the door,
 Like h. l will" he cried, and made for the dense swamp near at hand.
 Officer Boiling Young fired both barrels of his gun at the running man. who drop ped both boots and his overcoat. when picked up afterwards. the boots were founds to be riddled with bird shot, the officer having forgotten to put buckshot
 Burrow-for 1t had been found out that 1t was none other than the famous train robber and bandid-then disappeared in the swamp in his stocking feet, and that was the last heard of him in Montgom- cry County.
 jim Burrow, the one at the Montgomery police station. was the next day carried around on Dexter Avenue and photo- graphed, the picture being in the gallery of Chief Gerald now. A few days after, Jim was sent. under neavy gnara' paGk asE He had not been in there long when there was a change of administration, and in some way Jim passed himself oil as a United States prisoner. A line Of the moonshiners were standing in the court. yard waiting to be taken to the Federal building and tried, Jim among the TOT;
 The engineer of the train that he nag robbed at Genoa, Ark, caught sight Of Jim and pointed him out to the warden. Seeing that the game was up, Jim made a break for liberty and showed hght on being caught. He was knocked out by a blow on the head with billy in the hands l of one of the guards, and, never recover . | ing from the effects of that blow, died sometime in October, 1SSS
 Rube in Florida.
 The morning after the stirring events on the Motion place huoe near tcheS froze by ths | tangled undergrowth of the swamp,
 succeeded in getting breakfast at @ tne | cabin of a negro, Ed Haronot. Lsw miles farther on, he stole an old white | horse belonging to a negro and, riding
 off, disappeared entirely. | He turned up next in Florida, working | as a lumberman near Flomaton. Every | evening. however, he managed to make a
 negro ferryman put him on the opposite | side of the Escambia River. Going 10 the 1 regro's cabin one evening, as usual tne | wife 6 the negro told Reub that her husband was down at the river then with | party of hunters.
 l Smelling mouse, the shrewd despera- do went off in the opposite dlrecton % ortv ana ns | 'shunters'' consisted of Detective Jack son of the Express Company. and some | Pinkerton men who were waiting Tor the | outlaw to come to his usual ferry. They
 had a wait. but the outlaw was by that time miles away in the wilds Of Escampia | County. up a Louisville and Nashville train near l Flomaton and got a good pile of money | out of the express car. The express mes | sanger that night was A. s. Johnston, or
 this city. and the engineer Of the train | was Bob Sizer
 | At the point of "a gun, the robber
 forced Sizer to go with him in the ex-
 press car. As they entered, the messen, | ger covered them with revolver, bu' | Rube held the ehginer in front of him, so that if the messenger had nred ne
 would have killed Sizer. Pulling his gun,
 then, Rube made them all lay down anu no l he footed the car, after which he coolly walked off in the night
 A hot chase was instituted. and he was driven out of Florida and later capturee and put in jail he managed to get out al
 night, and, in duel with J M Carter
 was killed on the streets of Linden.
 careers of the Burrow boys, who prob.
 ably edualled the noted James boys Il
 cooiness, daring and murders.