The Arizona sentinel., 1902-12-17
PEARL HART FREE.
The Notorious Woman Bandit Will Tackle the Stage Again, lhiS
 Time as an "ACtreSS" and Not

City. Quite large number of
 people were at the depot to get
 a glimpse of Arizona's famous fe-
 male ex- bandit and they were not
 disappointed for she was there,
 and if there is one thing more |
 than another that Pearl is not
 "shy on" it is a fondness for
 notoriety.
 Her ticket was bought straight
 drought to Kansas City, where
 her mother and sister live, and
 the latter has written drama in
 which Pearl will assume the
 leading role, arrangements hay
 ing been made 10 play the Or
 pheum circuit, the initial per formance to be given in Kansas
 City. It is understood that the
 drama will embody Pearls own
 experience as a stage robber,
 with all the blood and thunder
 accompaniments, and the famous
 Pearl will once again with her
 trusty Winchester hold up the driver of a western stage, line
 up the passengers and relieve them of their valuables while her
 partner, "Boots," covers the victims with his gun, and takes no chances. But this is all in
 the play, fer after serving over three years in the territorial prison for this kind of gun
 play Pearl has quit the real thing
 and decided to reform. She will try to elevate the stage instead ) of robbing it. Pearl is a pretty : name, but if those features of 2 hers do not cause a stampede of . the audience when she appears
 before the footlights it will be
 because of her reputation as a
 dead shot. So that unless some
 one turns in an alarm of fire !. Pearl is pretty certain to hold
 the audience until the final act. , The fact is, Pearl Hart is an as s Sumed name, as was that of her f partner, Joe Boots. When Sher- if Truman of Pinal county ar rested the two for the stage rob-
 bery in 1899, he asked the male Il highwayman his name. He e started to answer but only got a as far as "Joe," when Pearl sup V piled the rest t-''Boots," and he v was tried, convicted and sen J fenced as Joe Boots. The right t name of either one is not knowr $ here.
 tt Nearly everybody has read o- l. the stage robbery committed bJ
 ''Boots" and Pearl Hart. Itwas
 in the summer of 1899. The
 stage between Globe and River
 side was held up, and the pas h sengers robbed of something
 like four hundred dollars, be sides watches and jewelry. One ft of the victims was the county y treasurer of Pinal County m There was Chinamau aboard % whom Pearl relieved of over on' +o hundred dollars. The directing " spirit of the robbery was Pear 7r Hart. They were arrested a. shortly afterward by Sheriff Bel at Truman with considerable of tn d plunder still in their possession ,u They were tried at Florence ant v" on November IS, 1899, Joe Boo le was sentenced to thirty year k and Pearl Hart to five years i Id the penitentiary. Boot, strang % to say, was, made 'trusty" an' escaped after serving less thal
 two years. He has never bee Iy found. Pearls time accordin r. to sentence would have expire d. June 16, 1903.
 pr She leaves the prison in goo - health, and free from the Opiur is habit, to which she was an al
 iect slave on entering the prisor mt Pearl is little woman weighin w. 1O5 pounds, but she has tn s- slangy, tough demeanor, an = when one contemplates her pal D. in the stage robbery, it must | ng admitted that she has the nerve Vi- With that facial expression C of hers it must be admitted als ID. that she is making further us os of her nerve in going before tn Oi v, footlights. Pearl was not a yer H. desirable prisoner; she took pa 'n, ticular delight in making ,pett ix, trouble for the other female col & victs, and with the least bit
 latitude would have made troub 'o for every one at the prisol pm guards officials, convicts and al of including herself. The wome gh convicts, especially, are doub bo less glad she is gone.
 =: Governor Brodie also parole III ! Rosa Doran, last Saturday, wi To- was sent from Yavapai count en- for grand larceny. Her erin to consisted of trolling" a man.
 of Action in both these cases W; o1 recommended by the board 'oi control, the principal reaso nt- perhaps, being on account in the meagre accommodations ,oI tho nriSOn for women. The