The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-11
KID cURRY'S LAST
BULLET ENDS GANG
Dead Desperate Is Identified
as the Noted Train
Rebber

Harvey Logan, better known as Kid
curry, one of the most notorious and
most desperate train and bank robbers
In the country, was killed last month
in Colorado by a posse that was pur-
suing him and his two pals, the identi-
fcation of the dead man having just
been positively made in Knoxville,
Tenn, where he was in Jail some time,
and from other sources.
1t had been previously believed that
the dead man wasranother noted des-
perado, but the positive Identification
has Set all doubt at rest, thereby
finally cleaning up the gang that
robbed the Great Northern express at
Wagner, Mont, July 8, 1902, and car
ried off $41 900 in unsigned bank bills
consigned to national banks in Helena,
Mont
Although Logan's career was largely
made UP of desperate deeds, the rob-
berry of the Great Northern attracted
the most attention. For participation
in this crime Logan was arrested near
Knoxville, Tenn, in the fall of 1902,
and after a trial in the United States
court was sentenced to twenty years
penal servitude. After sentence he
made a sensational escape from Gus
tody, and his whereabouts from that
time until it became known that he
had been killed was mystery to the
officers The large rewards offered
for his capture by the Great Northern,
the Union Pacific and many other cor
IoratlonS, as we'll as the substantial
amount offered by Sheriff Cox. of
Knoxville, failed to produce the body
of the bandit.
Other Members Of Gang Cared For
0. G. Hanks, alias Camilly Haup,
Deaf Charley, ETC., and Ben Fitzpatrick,
Northern holdup, were disposed Of.
Fitzpatrick was arrested in st. Louis
Nov. 5. 1901, and was sent to the
Leavenworth prison for fifteen years.
Hanks resisted arrest in San Antonio,
Tex, and was shot and killed. A large
proportion of the missing bills were
recovered. The numbers and denomi-
nations of the bills were so we'll adj
vertised that the desperadoes found
great difficulty in dispesing of them.
although they had cleverly forged the
signatures of the officers of the banks
to which the bills had been shipped
The crime that cost the noted out
law his life occurred near Parachute,
Cox. June Z, when three men held up
the Denver & Rio Grande express. The
following day posse overlook the
that occurred one Of the robbers was
SO badly wounded that he fell from
his horse.
"Are you hurt, TAm?" the officers
heard one of the pals of the wounded
man call. $50 49,,
ITS all up with me and Til end the
whole thing" was the answer, where
upon the desperate pulled his six
shooter and put bullet through his
brain, dying instantly. The other two
men escaped, but their identity is
known.
Harvey Logan, also known as Kid
Curry, was born in Dodson, Mo-, a
suburb of Kansas City, but while quite
young went to Texas and became a
cowboy. His reputation as rustler
became such that the stockmen drove
him from the country. Going to Ne
vada he robbed the Winnemucca
(Nev) bank of $4,000. In this Job he
was assisted by George Parker and
Harry Longbaugh. The three were
captured, but Logan made a daring
escape from Jail and went to Wyom-
ing. With assistance, he held UP and
robbed the express car on the Union
Pacific near Wilcox. In an effort to
arrest Logan for the crime near Cas-
per, Wyo., Joseph Hazen, sheriff of
Converse county, lost his life Logan
fired the fatal shot.
The commission of this crime caused
Logan to move on to Montana, and he
was next heard from in Landusky,
Mont. There he killed the founder of
the town, Pike Landusky, this crime
occurring Christmas day, 1894 and
caused the desperate to leave the state.
Although a large number of offenses
were committed in various sections Of
the West during the next year or two.
in which it was supposed that he was
concerned, it was found impossible to
trace specific offense to him until the
hoid-up OF the Great Northern train in
1902.
The Logan family produced two 9TH
er desperadoes, brothers of Harvey.
George and Lonnie Logan, both of
whom also went by the names of Cur
ry, died with their boots on. refusing
to surrender. Although they were run
ming saloon in Montana mining
camp. they were suspected of being
implicated in some of the crimes of
Harvey, their brother. Before the of
heers could arrest them they sold their
business and left the country Lonnie
Logan was located at his old home in
Dodson, Mo-, July II, 1900, and in at
tempting to make his escape was shot.
George Logan was located at Green
river Utah, March %, 1900, and also
resisted arrest. In a running fight he
was hlilSQ ny d posse CnaL pursued.
The death of Harvey Logan wipes out
the immediate Logan family.
The identification of the dead rob-
Der was secured through the Pinkerton
detective agency, and news of the fact
was yesterday conveyed, to O. o. Rim
DIAL, superintendent of the local agency,
1t being stated that while Logan had
been disposed of, the other notorious
character first supposed to be the dead
man is still alive and at large.
Has Pictures of Curry
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, July 1O.-Low-
ell F. Spence, a detective employed by
Chicago agency, has returned to Chi
cago after securing local identifica-
tons of two pictures, which he had in
his possession, supposed to be photo
graphs of the supposed Montana bandit
and train robber, Harvey Logan, alias
Kid Curry
Early on the morning of July 8. a
gang held up a Denver & Rio Grande
train, near Parachute, Col. but after
blowing two safes and shooting one
railway employe they secured only SO.
A posse of cowboys was at once or
ganized and chase given. In the chase
one of the bandits was shot from his
horse by cowboy. and as soon as he
fell was seen to shoot himself through
the head. Pictures were taken of the
dead man. Believing the photos TO be
those of Logan, the sheriff came here
to identify the bandit. Sheriff Fox.
from whom Logan escaped positively
Identifies the photographs as those of
T n Toll