The Mena weekly star., 1907-01-17
HENRY STARR'S
 MOVEMENTS
An Old s.Pal'' oi Former Bandit Days Tells Something of the Recent Dolngs of Man Accused of Horatio
 Bank Robbery.

III COUHcItlOH Wltu lHc iGpOE
 that Henry Starr has been arrest ei for the Horatio bank robbery
 the following statement in tn
 Fort Smith Times of his recen
 movements as made by ono of hi. former associates, is of specia
 interest:
 Nathanel Reed, who in tht days when the Territory was the rendezvous of the bandit element of which he was mem Der, ant was known as "Texas Jack" is wintering in the city, pioneer fashion. He Is camping near the rock quarry on the Texas road. Reed was in the famous Black Rock holdup III '92 and was shot by Deputy Marshal Ledbetter now of Muskogee, and as result he is crippled. Reed was asked if he thought Henry Starr had anything to do with the Horatio bank robbery. He said he had not heard Of the occurrence but incidents which had come under his observation quite recently induced him to think 1t IS pos sible that Henry Starr was in- dulging id his old life. Said he:
 II was in Muskogee sometime ago and there met Henry Starr who was settling with the bank for overdrafts he had made while he was Ill Mexico as one of the delegates sent there to purchase some land for the Indians who thought of emigrating to that country. l had quite a talk with him and 1t appeared that after he had settled with the bank his partner, as he called him, mere buy, had gotton into trouble and the officers were after him. Starr sent the officers word that he did not want any of his friends interfered with and if they were he would turn the town upside down. Deputy Marshall Heron told me that Starr had sent him such word. 1 told Henry that he was going the wrong way and that he was be- Straying the confidence of his Friends who had got him par edoned, had placed in him Ha Ia sked me if I would take slice Bpf good thing If it came my Iway, and when l said that l fwould not be curled his lip and &aid: Well, I don't think much bf you for it. Henry told me ahat he was bound to have what Dne wanted and that hc could get q he mony to buy what he wanted, 3 reasoned with him but it was s11o use. He declared that he *would have no interference with
  Either himself or his friends. SSome days ago 1 saw a resident Mi Rogers who said that Henry btarr had spent several days in A hat town with no apparent pur- spose. The man told the that Shlarr sought to bestow his aifec- 4 lons upon his wife who was workiug iu the hotel and tried to nd lce her to join him, saying a hat he was forming party to xo something. have been hear Eng reports of Henry's uutoward Actions and 1 am afraid that he VI going to the~bad aud that he Will come to violent end. Henry forgets that the conditions today arc not the conditions of fourteen 2S ears ago, and that he does not Stand the chances of escape he tl i'd then. 1 felt sorry for Deputy Heron when he told me of the m essape Starr had sent him. l s >ked Hcrrou if he would be will dng 10 make an even break with ma and he said he would not, and I hen Itold him that he should go
 fter Starr and take no chances Rith him
 Mir. Reed appears to think that Starr is constitutional wrong
 OCT. A Muskogee gentleman M hn overheard the above conver- $ ition subst quently told Times Reporter that he had been in- formed that Henry Starr made a big haul in Mexico and that he VEIN d Etl.pd a Mavtrau while doing