Arizona republican., 1909-05-13
OKLAH M A DESPERADO
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time set for his execution, he escaped from the jail at Fort Smith. After some negotiations with the United States authorities, he surrendered. and a compromise was entered into by which he was given unrestricted and undisturbed freedom. Starr has a wife and three children about whose wei fare he solicitously asked Mir Fenton
 Sheriff Simpson described the plan of the bank robbery followed by Starr and Wilson. The brains of the enter prise. as well as the courage, were con- tributed by Starr His plan was never
 complete until it involved a certain way of escape, in which respect he is a strategist after the heart of von Moltke, who was once questioned re- garding the possibility of an invasion of England. a matter which has been much discussed by military men. Won Moltke replied that he had devised thirty plans by which the tight little island" could be successfully invaded, but he had never formulated a plan by which the invader could successfully escape.
 The hold-up of the Amity bank was conducted as follows: Wilson first ap- peared on the scene, for the reason that he was not so likely to attract at tention. In a day or two Starr came. It was learned afterward that they had come out of Oklahoma hidden in a covered wagon, driven by a man who had with him his wife and two children. At some point, probably. Clayton N M. Starr and Wilson provided themselves with thoroughbred horses, and were frequently on them, inspecting the roads about Amity Wilson was To- quacious, but Starr had little to say. In their rides they carried rifles on the saddles. but had no other weapons in sight. They carried their revolvers in the bosoms of their shirts.
 When everything was ready for the final blow, they entered the bank and compelled the attache in charge to de- liver They realized from this enter prise only S9S9S5 The Tyro bank rob bery, committed in the same man. ner. but under greater difficulties, for they had to hold up several men, yield cd them S2.500.
 So carefully had the plans of Starr been laid. that. when they rode out of Amity. they might as well have van ished into thin air. It had been learn ed some how that Starr and Wilson had committed the Tyro robbery, for Tyro is near the Oklahoma border. The descriptions of these two robbers left no doubt that they had turned the Amity trick.
 Descriptions of them were sent out broadcast. One came to the office of the sheriff here last fall. and accom- panying it was a letter from the sher- if of Prowers county, emphasizing the dangerous character Of the men and saying that the greatest care should be taken in experimenting them There was a long string of rewards for them, and they would be paid as readily for the desperadoes, dead, as if they were delivered alive. There are three rwards in the Amity case alone, ranging from s2OO to s1,000; there are several in the Tyro case also. The offerers are the banks, the county and state authori- ties, and the companies which had in sUred the banks against just such dis asters. There are said to be several older rewards for their arrest for crimes committed in Oklahoma.
 So far as known, there are no present charges of murder against Starr. He is too well trained a man to commit murder unnecessarily, and he has of late always laid his plans so carefully that homicide has been unnecessary.
 After the Amity affair, nothing was heard of them until MT. FentOn re- ceiVed that mysterious telegram which brought him and Sheriff Simpson to Phoenix Starr said yesterday that he came to the territory from Albuquer- que. He spent some time at Prescott, and arrived in Phoenix on Christmas day. He remained here a week and then went out along the A. & C.
 He professes to know nothing of Wilson and not to have seen him for months. But when he appeared at BOuse. he had a companion whose de- scription resembles that of Wilson, and it is said that on one occasion Starr him as Wilson. That indi- vidual left Bouse about the middle of February
 Starr, when he is not holding banks up. is an expert gambler. poker being his strong point. Notwithstanding the anti gambling laws of this territory, Starr managed to live comfortably along the A. t& c. during his brief resi- dence in the territory.