Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-17
TERRIBLE BAD MAN
Many Notches on Gun OF To-
gan, Cowboy Bandit.
RECORD OF TRAINS HELD UP
South America Now Field Of Out
laws Activities.
IS LEADER OF WICKED CREW
Maj. Sylvester Will Try to Procure
His Arrest in Argentina-Heavy
Sentence Hanging Over Him.
RECORD OF TRAINS HELD UP
rs LEADER OF WICKED CREW


This is the longest criminal record I
have ever seen," remarked Maj. Richard
Sylvester. superintendent of police and
president Of the International Association
of Police Chiefs. to a Star reporter,
exhibiting two typewriter pages re-
ceived from Eugene Van Buskirk, super
lintendent Of the national bureau of GRIM
inal Identification.
The record was that of Harvey Logan,
forty-five years old, of Dodson. Mo.
Murders, train robberies and other crimes
he is blamed for. committed at various
places throughout the United States. He
| is also believed to be one of "hold-up
band working in South America.
This bad man is wanted by the author
tiles to serve sentences aggregating 100
! years in the Ohio penitentiary. He es-
capped from Jail at Knoxville. Tenn.
Argentina May Send Him Back.
Maj. Sylvester has taken a deep inter-
est in the fugitive's case. He intends to
try to bring him to justice.
That he may be in the Argentine Re-
public or some other South American
country may not save him from the Ohio
penitentiary. Maj. Sylvester will invoke
the aid of the State Department to get
him back here.
While his right name seems to be Har-
very Logan, he is known to police and
criminals also as kid Curry, Bob New
lilies, Tom Jones. Robert Nelson and X.
T. Whelan. His criminal career includes
seven murders and two suspected MUIR
n rOhherieS SlOOt-
ing scrapes.
Christmas day, 1894, the record states.
he became known in the criminal world.
Pike Landusky of Landusky, Mont, was
killed that day by him.
In June. 1897, he helped rob bank at
Belle Fourche, s. D., under the name OF
Tom Jones. He was arrested and placed
in Jail at Deadwood. s. D., escaping the
last of October of that year.
Two years later he participated in the
hold-up of Union Pacific train at Will
cox, Wyo. Three days later Sheriff Hazen
Of Converse county, Wyo.. leading posse
death at Tea Pot creek. near Caspar, by
| Logan.
Avenges Comrades Death.
| Ten months later, in May, 1900, to
avenge the death Of a comrade in the
band of train robbers, Logan killed John
Tyler, sheriff of Grand county, Utah, and
Sam Jenkins, who was an acting deputy
sheriff. Three months later his record
has him participating in the hold-up Of
a Union Pacific train at Upton. Wyo
1 In July, 1901, he is said to have taken
part in an exciting train robbery on the
Great Northern railroad, near Wagner,
Mont. Explosives were used and vi 900
in incomplete bank notes was secured as
loot.
James Winters. one who hunted July o6
for Logan, twepty-three days after the
robbery, fell victim Of the bandits
revolver. After Winters death the bad
man. accompanied by woman left
/ Montana for the south.
In October of that year the woman was
arrested at Nashville, Tenn, for attempt
ing to pass some of the incompleted notes,
proceeds of the train robbery. Logan
managed to escape.
Wounds Two Policemen.
The next heard from the bandit was the
night Of December 13. 1901, when he shot
in Knoxville, Tenn. Six months 1ater he
was convicted Of assault and sentenced
to serve six months in the city jail.
In November, 1902, he was arrested in
Knoxville and convicted of having at
tempted to pass some more diminished
bank notes. Sentences aggregating 100
Years were imposed. AS a number OF
them were to run concurrenty. he would
ihave had to serve only twenty years.
| While in Jail at Knoxville awaiting
Transportation to the Columbus, Ohio,
lpenitentiary Logan escaped from prison.
He was not again heard from for two
lyears. Then he turned up in Argentine
as the leader of band OF robbers.
/ Logan is believed to be one of two men
who killed two boys who were trailing
HON from st. Johns, Ariz., In the spring
of 1906. The murder of the sheriff OF
Apache county. Ariz., while investigating
the double murder, is also ascribed to the
bandit.
Five years prior to the Arizona muir
ders Logan is said to have been present
when his companions killed a man named
Thornton. near Eden, Tex.
/ Operating in Argentina.
"since escaping from the Jail at Knox
Iville,'' the report concludes. Curry is
suspected of being a member Of the band
OF hold-up robbers who operated in the
/ Argentine Republic. This band would
ride to the scene of the robbery on horses,
leave their horses in charge Of a member
of the band. and hold up employees of
banks during business hours. compelling
them to remain passive while they rob-
bed the bank safes and vaults.
Logan was a cowboy in his early days.
and lived at Landusky and Harlem. Mont.
He is about feet ~ inches tall and
weighs between 145 and 100 pounds.
OF medium build. he has dark complex
lion chestnut black hair. dark eyes and q
llong, straight, prominent nose. He Usu-
ally wears a mustache, although he can
raise heavy beard
Part of his description pictures him as
slightly bowlegged and tells Of gun
shot wound on his right wrist. His man.
ner is quiet and reserved.