The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-03-01
KID CURRY LOOSE.
So Thinks a Man Who Knows Him
WE'LL

Well.
There are mighty few men down
around Kid Curry's country who be-
lieve that he is in Jail in Knoxville"
said Charles Harper of Chinook, who
was in Butte recently.
'The dispatch in yesterdays pa
pers bears out the belief.
Somehow it has leaked out that
the authorities have not even a pris-
oner who represents the famous des-
perado and that their so-called iden-
tifications were all fakes.
Nov let me show you how this
latter phase bears out our theory
that they never had the kid"
when the first news of the cap
ture of Harry Longabaugh came out,
the press dispatches had a descrip-
ton that didn't tally with the real
one in any particular. Then there
came a contradiction to the first
story and pretty soon they had an
other Longabaugh, but he wasn't any
more of the real one than the first.
"Then they found the Kid ond his
description was all wrong; in fact,
it was more like the real Longabaugh
than the ones purporting to be
Harry.
Finally they had the sensational
arrest of what they sprung on the
public as the real Kid but the iden-
tification did not indicate that he
was the Kid but one of the train
robbers.
Through it all there was the firm
est belief around our country that it
was all bluff, many saying that it
was a kind of double cross on the
part of the Pinkerton men and that
they figured by pretending that they
had the real man, they would make
Curry and the rest of the boys think
that they-the Pinkerton men-be-
lieved they had the train robbers,
and so throw the real bandits off
their guard so that they would begin
to circulate the money more freely
and afford excellent opportunity for
their arrest.
Nov, this may seem far-fetched
and an ingenious way of explaining
it, but there are a number of peo-
pie who know the Curry gang and
all the circumstances of the case,
who believe it, and I must say that
I do myself"
How do you explain this last dis
patch them" asked the Inter Noun
tain reporter.
why, that strengthens the case.
Can't you see that the authorities
have turned their counterfeit Curry
loose and are trying to make people
believe they have him yet?
eff the newspapers have noticed
it, there hasn't been single picture
of Curry taken down there sent up
to this section of the country They
sent dispatch saying that he re-
fused to be photographed, but that's
too fishy. They could have taken
some kind of a picture of him at
any rate and they certainly would if
they had Kid Curry.
mo, sir; when We read that they
had captured the Kid and that he
had no gun on him we all concluded
that it was fake. Why you might
as well think of capturing an ele-
plant without his trunk.
by the way, there is story that
Long Henry, who was killed at Saco
the other day, was the murderer of
Sheriff Young of Park county.
Let me burst another bubble for
you newspaper men.
1.-THE man who killed Sheriff Young
was small man, which Long Henry
certainly was not. Besides, happen
to know little more of Long Henry
which convinces me that he was not
in that business, no matter what else
may have been charged up against
| him.
He was bad man, sure enough
but he's dead and not able to contra
dict those stories, and dying as he
/ did makes it very easy for a tale of
that kind to be credited.
Meanwhile, if you happen to see