The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-12
TIE HOLE IN THE WALL
MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY OF DES-
 PERADOEs IN WYOMING,
Ths Hiding Place of Tom Horn, NIxid Curryv and Other Aristocrats of Crime--some s<Hole' History
 Refuge of Scores of Bad
 Men and Women
New York Evening Post.


 the Tetons is a mountain sanctuary where many crooked paths have led" writes Owen Mister of "The Hole in the Wall" the Wyoming mountain hid ing place for desperate criminals. He that took another mans possessions or he that took another mans life could always run here If the law or popular justice were too hot at his heels. Steep ranges and forests wall ed him in from the world on all four sides almost without a break: and every entrance lay through intricate soiitudes. Snake river came into the place through canons and mournfuI pines and marshes, to the north. and went out at the south between formfd- able chasms. Every tributary to this stream rose among high peaks and ridges and descended into a valley by well-nigh impenetrable courses; Pa ciic creek, from Two Ocean pass Buff falo Fork. from no pass at all, Black Rock, from the To-wo-ge-tee pass all these. and many more, were the waters of loneliness. among whose thousand hiding places it was easy to be lost. Down in the bottom was a spread of level land broad and beau tifuI, with the blue and silver Tetons rising from its chain of lakes to the west. and other heights presiding over its sides. And up and down and in and out of this hollow square of noun tnins, where waters plentifully flowed. there skulked a nomadic and distrust- full population"
 Scores of "rustiers" and murderers and train robbers have found refuge from eager pursuit in the Hole" AH- ter the raid on the bank at Cody, whose only result was the killing of brave cashier. it was to the Hole" in the Tetons that the raiders fled. near 1y a hundred miles southeast Tom Horn, hanged last year after a pie turesque career as a cattle thief and bad man, knew the 'Hole;" Black Jack" Tom Ketchum. hanged at Clay ton, N. M., was known as the original leader of the wild bunch" that used the mountain refuge of Wyoming: Harvey Logan, who killed himself a few months ago at Parachute, Col. when surrounded by officers. and half a score of others, knew those gloomy. enclosing mountain walls. To the northwest the Teton range has been what the Algerian mountains are to the people of Tangiers, a safe hiding place for whatever Raisuli gained their shadows.
 If it were possible to go straight northwest from Cheyenne toward the Yellowstone Reservation, '"The Hole in the Wall'' would be found to lie al- most directly in the way, and less than a hundred miles from the southeast corner of the great national park. Once upon a time, as geologist would describe 1t, this huge cup in the noun tains was evidently a lake. In the course of centuries Ga geologist always seems to speak loosely the waters of the lake gnawed their way out in a narrow stream where it was easiest to break through. Later the outlet be- came a deep gorge, and the water and the lake fell lower and lower until the once wide and deep body of water be- came but an interrupted chain of small pools and a rapid little stream that is a veritable torrent when the snow meIts in the spring. It was the reced- ing lake that left the bleak, crumbled rim that ran like a rampant between the towering tops" and under that rim subterranean passages and staring caves were left, too, where a cautious man, familiar with the basin, might hide and be safe from capture for any length of time. The entrance to the 'TTole." and its exit, are narrow, steep. rock k-bottomed gorges, through which the prehistoric lake found its way to lower levels.
 The end of the wild bunch" has been announced to a relieved Northwest more than once. When Logan was found velf-kiIled an enthusiastic sheriff wired to a Chicago detective agency whose work had been ouerous in Wyoming and Colorado: Dead robber absolute Iy identified as Logan. This means the end of the Hole in the Wall gang" In the minds of the thief takers and men tanners of the West, Harvey Logan, who was better known as Kid Curry" was the leader of that band. The Hole in the Wall" without Logan would surely become but memory of wick edness. To that versatile outlaw has been credited the leadership of the 'bunch" that robbed Butte County Bank at Belle Fourche, S. D., in 1897; that held up a Union Pacific train at Wilcox, Wyo., in 1899; that robbed an- other express car at Tipton; that footed the First National Bank at Winnemuc- ca, New, of over $30,O00 in 1900, and that got $35,000 from Great North ern train at Wagner, Mont, in 1901. By the time he was run to earth 1t was thought that the wild bunch" had dwindled to Kid Curry" and two oth- CTS It was known that Butch" Cas- sidy Ga sinister. fitting name), and Harry Longbaugh. the "Sundance Kid" were at large. but 1t was thought that they had deserted The Hole In the WalP' forever.
 It is hinted that the great Bill" Cruzans, who was reported to have been killed in a fight with officers, is still alive. and leader of sorties from the Hole"
 For fifteen years, at least, 'The Hole in the Wall" has been known and used by the outlawed among the cowboys and gamblers of the Northwest. It was in 1892 that its secrets were re- Vealed to the world. Tn that year Northern Pacific train was held up near Big Timber, Mont, and the express car pIundered. The "job" was well done. and the posse formed to run down the robbers had a long. stern chase. One man, Camilla Hanks. was captured. He was the Deaf Charlie" of the gang, and from him the officers got the first trustworthy information concerning the "wild bunch" He was from Texas, as was Ben Fitzpatrick, the Tall Texan who was neatly trapped by detectives while on a drunken spree in St. Louis. After serving a ten years sentence at Deer Lodge, Mont, he returned to the old life, to be killed two years ago by a posse at San Antonio
 It is the general belief in the coun- try where such things are most talked about, that at least one woman was ar active member of the wild bunch" and knew the secrets of the Hole" " She was Laura Bullion, an intimate of the "Tall Texan" who fled St Louis with Fitzpatrick after the robbery of the Great Northern express car at Wagner, Mont, When arrested her satchel contained some thousands of