Arizona daily citizen., 1901-11-13
THE
BANDIT
QUEEN
TALKS
THE
ST. LOUIS POLICE
PUMP
LAURA BULLION
She Lived in Arizona
andhasLong Known
Notorious Cri-
minals.

ST LOUIS. Mo. Nov 13--Taura
Bullion, who says that her home is
near Douglas, Ariz., Is still attracting
much attention at the Four Courts
She says that she lived with her grand
father, whose name is Z. B, Tyler.
about three miles from Douglas, Ariz,
and that she has been mixed up with
bad people for several years past.
Laura Bullion, the companion of
Harry lOngbaug.., is not of type of
women person would associate In his
mind as the companion of a desperate
bandit. There is nothing in her man
ner. appearance or speech at all sug-
gestive of the bandit queen" of the
wild and woolly regions. whose dash
and daring exploits are luridly set
forth in sensational dime novel litera-
ture
The first thought that suggests itself
to ones mind at first view OF the frail,
sallow- faced wisp of dimunillve femin-
unity sitting half hidden in one of the
high backed chairs in Chief Desmond s
office rs: How in the name of com
mon sense did big, brawny wicked
looking Harry Longbangh. crafty and
shrewd in his criminal career, come to
select this woman as his companion,
the snarcr OF mis- criminal secrets?
And the only answer as yet set forth
by the Hawkshaws who have pro-
pounded the query is that II is ma
tural selection on the basis Of the old
theory of the affinity of extreme. types
By no stretch of the Imagination
could any one looking at Laura Bull
lion conceive Of her participating in
any wild night ride after a daring
raid, or of engaging a posse to cover
the retreat or secure the release of her
mate. after the accepted manner Of
bandit queens in we'll regulated novels
On the contrary. Laura would be much
more at home on the steering gear of
an Arizona prarie schooner. or plotting
a potato digger, or frying fiapjacks for
the men folks As for shooting. Laura
says that perhaps she could shoot a
revolver, but she don't know whether
the bullet would hit 'all of creation.
As for her horsemanship. she says
her feats were confined to riding a
roam mare to the pump in her old Tex
at home when she was a child
Laura Bullion was reared on a farm.
In truth and in fact, as CLEANED from
her own statements and from one of
her neighboFs who knew her in Ari-
IONA. Laura is rather duh. spiritless
country girl. reared on farm and pos
sessing the meager intelligence and
education common to that type whose
early lives have been spent in and
around small isolated villages. She is
about feet 2 inches tall and weighs
about 80 pounds. and her appearance
indicates extreme frailty. Her face Is
sallow and eXpressionless, with an en-
tire absence of mobility save when her
lips relax ever so slightly in a smile
or laugh. exposing double row of
small white. even teeth,
I.auras story in substance, is that
she was born in Arkansas 25 years
ago and never knew her parents, who
separated in her infancy. She went to
| live with her grandparents near Doug
las. Ariz.. and there became acquainted
with Bill Carver. the Ketchum boys,
Fitzpatrick and other boys. who took to
| train robbing and murder as liveli-
! hood She became Carver's mistress.
and after lie and Fitzpatrick were kill
| ed In April last in Texas after a train
robbery, Bill Cheney introduced her in
| Fort Worth to Longbaugh. with whom
she went to live under the name OF
Cunningham. Longbaugh had at that
time a great bundle of the stolen bank
notes. the exact amount she does moi