New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-11
DIED WITH BOOTS on
Robber Who Shot Himself Tdenti-
fled as Long Sought Desperate.

Pinkerton's Detective Agency in this c,+v NJ,
advised yesterday by of its representatives in
Knoxville. Tenn. that the local police sheriff and
Jailers there had positively identified the photo
graph of 4 train and highway robber who Wa c
wounded by a posse Parachute Col June
g and who. 70 avoid capture. killed himself as ona
Of famous band OF Western train robbers and
despera does. named Harvey Logan. alias kid
Curry
On Saturday, June o. 1903 Logan escaped from
the Knox County Jail. at Knoxville Tenn vb1a
he was awaiting removal to the Columbus Ohio
Penltentary, to which he had been sentenced TO
twenty years imprisonment after conviction Of ut
tering altered national bank notes which had been
stolen from Great Northern exnress Gar r,,,,,
1901. by highwaymen. Of whom Logan wa, the
leader. The outlaws covered the train crew with
firearms. blew open the safe and stole over si5
10000 in unsigned banknotes
The last robbery in which Logan tool, mart ~
on June last when train Of the Denver and
Rio Grande Railroad held up near Parachute
COL by three masked robbers. who blew open the
express car and safe. but got no booty The rob
pers escaped on horseback. pursued by a posse
VINO came on them June 8. in a guch near Rife
Col One of the outlaws was wounded Acted %
he was seriously hurt. he replied that he was .aI
In and shot himself in the head dying instantly,
Logan was one of the most daring criminals thar
MIS- country ever produced He came from Dodson,
LOT lot tTaln robbery, his brother, Lenny Logan was
Filled Harvey murdered Pike" iandlsKyy. at
Landusky Mont. December q. 1894 and was impIil
Gated IN the robbery of Union Pacific RAILWAY
tTaih at wilcox Wyo,, June 2. 1899. A posse over
took Logan and his band. and in an attempt to
arrest them Sheriff Joseph Hazen OF Converse
county Wyo;, was killed. The dead bandit was
OF Of the Butte County Bank of Belle Fourche S D.
JQhe % 1917; Union Pacific express train hod-un
Upton Wyo. August %, 1900. and the Great North
8, 1901. eo-' ioi4''' july
Logan vas the leader Of the band which on Sep
tehnper ~ 1900, entered the First National Rank
o. Nlhnenlucca, New, at the noon hour and with
it of $50 642 in gold ~ -' ioOOilS
lie had escaped from many tails though alUa We
watched by a double guard. HIS escape from The
knoxville jail showed the cunning OF the man
Inc Knoxville authorities had been warned OF 10.
gan desperate character. and to prevent his as
cape cape placed a day and night guard armed with a
me. over him Nothing except the clothes on his
PACK was LEFT In the CELL and then his cloth
!Is ana cell We're searched every day. Yet viii n
these precautions he managed, the day that he es
capped 10 get piece Of ordinary broom wire and
WINE the guards back was turned. lassoed him
oonpeHed him to deliver up his rifle and unlock the
zen ooor; Logan held up number of keepers
prevented a general alarm and escaped
with the death Of Logan, with his boots IN >.
Ie me Pnkertons express it. about the last of the
western bandit gang leaders and their gangs are
exteTI1Tninated Those who have not been captured
or Killed have been driven from the United States
and are hunted criminals in foreign countries