The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-03-02


men mentioned killed or in prison.
according to their reports, several
times over but each day they bobbed
up in some other place.
Harvey Logan's escape from a Jail
in Knoxville, Tenn. where he was
held awaiting a trip to the prison at
Columbus, o., to serve a sentence of
twenty years for the Northern express
~obbery at Wagner, Mont, was one
of his m ost spectacular feats of prison
breaking.
With Butch" Cassidy, Longbaugh,
Ben Fitzpatrick, alias the Long Tex
an" and Deaf Charley Jones, Lo-
gan held up the train in broad day
light on June g. 1901, blew the ex-
press safe, and escaped with $4,000
in unsigned currency. Fitzpatrick was
captured in st. Louis and sent to
Texas where he was wanted for kill
ing a sheriff. and is now in the peni-
Tertiary in that state.
Arrested and Sentenced: Escapes.
Deaf Charley Jones was repo ted
killed in saloon brawl in .the same
state, but with Logan he turned up
in Knoxville, Tenn. Here rney at
tempted to pass some of the unsigned
currency and Logan was captured.
Jones escaping by jumping in an ice
wagon and outdistancing the officers
Logan was tried in the federal court
and sentenced to twenty years, and
the railroad officials of the west
breathed easier.
He was placed in the county jail
with special guard over him. but
Notwithstanding this. on June %
1908, he threw wire lasso around
the neck of his guard, and. after
tying him to the bars, seized his pis-
tolls, captured the Jailer whom he
forced to conduct him to the stables,
where he mounted the sheriff's thor
oughbred horse and escaped. On foot
and horseback. travelling by night,
he made his way back to his old king
dom of Wyoming, where he could
laugh at pursuit.
While Logan was in captivity Long
baugh and Cassidy had lived quietly
in the Hole-in- the-Wall country and
around Vernal Utah. where they had
many friends. They made frequent
trips to Salt Lake and to Wyoming
towns, but no one seemed anxious to
attempt to capture them.
Train HOldup at Parachute.
When Logan escaped he Joined his
old partners, and it was planned to
hold up a train at Bitter Creek Wyo,
but the Union Pacific had filled its
express cars with guards and the
plan was abandoned. Cassidy re-
turned home, while Longbaugh, Lo-
gan, and man, who is believed to
have been Tap Duncan, travelled on
down to Parachute, Colo.
Logan boarded the tender of the
Denver and Rio Grande engine at
Parachute, and alone forced the en-
gineer and fireman to do his bidding
He made the engineer proceed up
the track to point where a camp fire
was burning. Here the train was
stopped and 1.-THE engine forced Il
give the whistle for the cattle on
the track
Longbaugh and Duncan Joined Lo-
gan at this point, and when, in an
swer to the whistle the train crew
came running up, they were met
with fusillade of bullets. A brake
man was wounded, and the others
driven off. The safe was blown, but
to this day it has never been an
nounced Just what the loss was.
One Bandit Shot. Kills Self.
The bandits fled from the scene
on stolen horses, and were followed
by several posses. One posse got
close enough to exchange shots with
the robbers, and one of the latter
was so bodily wounded that, after
calling a farewell to his companions,
he blew out his brains. He was the
man known as Duncan.
This was the last criminal exploit
of the gang in the west. Soon after
ward they got out of the country
Harry Longbaugh. under the name of
Place, visited New York some m onths
ago, and went on a prolonged de-
bauch, after which he returned to
the Argentine Republic.