The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-16

Palmer a debt of gratitude. So, when
Palmer and his pal, Frank Errington,
tried to hold up depot and a rich
horseman at OsWego, Kan, and later
shot a deputy sheriff and were cor
nered' Sutherland stole 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 ErrinStOn and carried
them on down the stream to freedom.
Events followed swiftly after that.
Sutherland and Palmer robbed IAN 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. & X. 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 off a second robbery at the
Lamar depot, Sutherland's autobiog-
raphy says, my old schoolmate, who
was night operator, put bullet into
Craig's lungs, from which he died"
Hiding Place for Gang.
After recitng the details Of half
dozen other bold and daring crimes,
the story shifts to Pittsburg, Kan,
where pretty Nellie Errington was
keeping a cottage, under an assumed
name, for the gang to run in and rest
up, if necessary"
Next we find Sutherland in the
hands of vigilance committee which
is about to hang him. The rope is
made fast about his neck and he Is
actually strung up, when the leader,
who is rather kind-hearted," decides
on council of war" and orders
Sutherland hauled down. 1t is while
this council is in progress that Suth'
erland escapes.
Sutherland joins his pals short
distance away. The vigilance com.
mittee pursues them, and Nellie En-
rington, learning of the committees
movements, jumps on horse and
goes to warn the robbers. She is mis-.
taken for one of them and killed
Free-for-all shooting followed, several
Of the committee were wounded, but
the desperadoes got away.
Did Honest Work for a Time.
Sutherland then worked for time
as a delivery clerk in the Creek Ma
ton, after which he committed more
robberies and was arrested for the
, first and only time in his life by the
| sheriff of Lamar Mo. He spent some
nine months in a reformatory, escaped
and Joined the army as musician
/ under the name of Jack Ames. He wa
: ambitious to become an army officer
l but Errington bobbed up again, and
knowing that he would be found on
l sooner or later, Sutherland went bacl
, to the old life.
Going TO Los Angeles Sutherlan
d and his pals planned several crimes
: among them the KIDNAPPING Of mi
l lionaire and holding of him for 5000
o 600 ransom. This was spoiled, h
0 wrote, because the selected victiI
t suddenly went abroad.
S The autobiography tells Of nume
l GUS car hold-ups in San Francisco; {
S several murders, and then Of the tim
II when lie married and determined t
reform for good" Sutherland contil
h ued: Il longed, oh, how much, for
g clean name, home, friends and to b
4 somebody"
Is Sutherland was now clerk In tn
a. University club at Los Angeles. H
9. wife had been telephone operate
Is She knew nothing of his duplicity-h
IT double life-and she was happy. The
n decided to buy a ranch in Oklahon
pit out of their savings, and were we'll
the way to achieving the one desil
they had so longed and planned Il
It, when the panic came and all went
Il. smash. Sutherland lost his job; wi
,e Il went the ranch in Oklahoma. T
i'd rendered over his plight. He cou
II. see no way but the old way. Th
" was the eosiest; he would follow 1t f
inc, then when he got enoui
~ money together he and bis wife wou
no 90 to Oklahoma, buy back the RAM
he | and i've happily ever after.
40 So /; y as, Sutherland found anoth
10. nal They robbed and pillaged; t
rt Los An, les police found them OF
N. and-n. rest Of the story has be-
ed told.-New York World.