The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-10-24

Pa6aer debt OF gratitude. So when
Palmer and his pal, Frank Errington,
tried to hold up a depot and rich
hOrseman at Oswego, Kan, and later
shot a deputy sheriff and were cor
nered" Sutherland stole a boat and
under cover Of darkness slipped by the
camp Of the posse that held the two
men on the banks Of the Nesho river,
got Palmer and Errington and carried
them on down the stream to freedom.
Events followed swiftly after that
Sutherland and Palmer robbed AN old
miser" on a lonely road near Cherry
vale Kan. Joining the other mem
bers of the gang later, they held up an
NJ. X. & K train near Denison, Tex.
Then came the robbery Of the depot at
Lamar, Mo. Here Walter Craig be-
came one OF the band. When he tried
to pull on a second robbery at the
Lamar depot, Sutherland's autobiog-
raphy says, my old schoolmate. who
was night operator. put a bullet into
Craigs lungs, from which he died"
Hiding Place for Gang.
After reeiting the details of half a
dozen other bold and daring crimes
the story shifts to Pittsburg. Kan,
where pretty Nellie Errington was
keeping cottage. under an assumed
name. for the gang to run in and rest
up, If necessary"
Next we find Sutherland in the
hands of a vigilance committee which
is about to hang him. The rope is
made fast about his neck and he Ii
actually strung up, when the leader
who is rather kind-hearted," decides
on a council of war" and orders
Sutherland hauled down. II is while
this council" is in progress that Suth
erland escapes.
Sutherland joins his pals a shor
distance away The vigilance com
mittee pursues them, and Nellie Er
rington, learning of the committee'i
movements. jumps on a horse an,
goes to warn the robbers. She is mis-
taken for one of them and killed
Free-forall shooting followed, severa
of the committee were wounded, bu
the desperadoes got away
Did Honest Work for a Time.
Sutherland then worked for tim
as a delivery clerk in the Creek Ma
tion. after which he committed NOR
robberies and was arrested for th
first and only time in his life by tn
sheriff Of Lamar. Mo. He spent som
= nine months in a reformatory, escape
and joined the army as music.a
! under the name OF Jack Ames. He wa
ambitious to become an army Officer
but Errington bobbed up again, an,
knowing that he would be found ou
/ sooner or later, Sutherland went bac
to the old life.
Going to Los Angeles Sutherlan
and his pals planned several crimei
among them the kidnapping OF a mi
lionaire and holding of him for 5000
} 900 ransom. This was spoiled,
wrote, because the selected yictil
suddenly went abroad.
The autobiography tells Of hume
Gus car hold-ups in San Francisco; {
several murders, and then Of the tim
! when he married and determined
reform for good" Sutherland contil
ued Il lcnged, oh, how much, for
clean name, home, friends and to b
I somebody"
Sutherland was now clerk in til
\ University club at Los Angeles. III
: wife had been telephone operate
5 She knew nothing Of his duplicity-h.
T double iifea she was happy. The
decided to buy ranch in Oklahom
out of their savings, and we're well Q
the way TO achieving the one desil
they had so longed and planned II
!, when the panic came and all went
!. smash. Sutherland lost his job: wit
9 1t went the ranch In Oklahoma. H
d p0ndered over his plight. He coul
: see no way but the old way. Ths
Y was the easiest: he would follow it Il
time, then when he got enoug
z money together he and his wife wOul
Q go to Oklahoma, buy back the rane
e and live happily ever after.
z So It was. Sutherland found anoth'
> pal. They robbed and pillaged: II
I Los Angeles police found them on
l. and-the rest Of the story has bee
d told.--New York World