The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-08-02
TRAIL SHOWED WHERE WOUNDED BANDIT
dug FOR WATER With HIS HANDS IN vain

SANTA FE. n. NJ. Aug al see
the Pinkerton's have figured out that
the train robber killed in the Denver
4 Rio Grande holdup at Parachute,
Colo, few weeks ago, was Harvey
Logan. or Kid Curry, that did the big
job on the Great Northern at Wagner,
Mont, three years ago. said HI
Simmons. the sawed-off shotgun ex-
pert who was formerly a United States
deputy marshal in the territory of
New Mexico.
II want to remark" he went on.
that if that Colorado posse did get
Logan, they got one of the gamest COW
punchers that ever quit roping for
shooting. One of the things that con-
vinces me that it was Logan is that
they say he shot himself in the head
when one of the COW men in that
posse shot him off his horse. That was
Kid Curry all over. He always went
under the name of Curry down in the
territory. where most OF the bad men
barring Black Jack, wear Kid as a
sort of an honorary title.
What | started in to relate was
about the first job this Curry ever
pulled off. They say he robbed bank
in Belle Fourche. s. d.. in the spring
of 1897. but that's a mistake, if this Is
the same Kid Curry. | know, for
Curry was riding fence lines on big
!; ranch in Taos county at that time, az
quiet and peaceful a. a messenger boy
reading Old Sleuth. This Kid Curry
didn't break out till a year later.
THE first trick he turns don't show
skill to amount to ANYTHING eXtraor"
binary, but it sure does show game
ness. He and another puncher he
picks up for a pal quits this |. \. NJ.
ranch just before the spring gathering
and nobody hears any more of 'em for
quite some time. They amt either OF
'em much older than enough to be able
TO register a brand. and they're quiet
sort of chaps, newspaper readln' EEL
lows who's always got Crouch on
railroad companies and corporations
and big COW outfits which pretty much
represents the attitude of mind of
that whole country. SO when they
lights out. sort of unberalded, the men
at the ranch allows they've gone NAV
ericking to set up a little bunch If
cattle of their own, and nobody thinks
anything OF it.
Il was spending a few days at the
Palace hotel, Santa Fe, libating some
and summing myself in the plaza, and
sort of inspecting the brands on Il
bunch of recruits that Captain Thomas
of the regular cavalry was gathering IN
the old palace to send down to Roose
velts outfit in Tampa. One night
gets a message saying there's been Il
Job done on Santa Fe express car IT
Belen so | rides down to Lamy juno
ton and catches the Fl Paso train and
gets to Belen by daylight.
"The express guard is laid out OF
the platform under a tarpaulin. and
the messenger is LAYING inside on Il
mattress with hole in bis neck.
waiting TO be took to the hospital in
Albuquerque The job the kid and his
pal had done wasn't much of an eX-
press robbery. though the shooting
they done. when the express car crew
opened up on 'em was pretty far.
They took time to crack one of the
safes with soap and glycerine in the
usual way, and had hit the trail with
the same horses they come in on, get
ting away with only few rouleaux OF
gold coin that was being shipped to
Old Mexico. II amt the robbery Itself
that I'm laying stress on; il was the
events that come after.
"They had went about due west
from the river. so we heads along after
'em as soon as we gets our outfits to-
eether. There's Jim Enos, another
deputy, the sheriff and three husky
gunbroke cattlemen that we had swore
In, and myself. We levies on the res
crvation for eight Navajo bucks as
trailers, puts 'em on the scent and
hits the up grade. We get an early
sart---'con lucero,' as the Indians say
and progresses right smart. As trail
ers them little bucks was the best
there is-beter'n any bloodhounds ever
whelped. They trots along with their
noses to the red salado, so to speak.
never waverin' or battin' an eye, aud
soing 10 strong our horses can scarce
keep up.
"iPs within a hairsbreadth of sun.
Am when we comes on the Kid and