The daily sentinel., 1910-02-22
men WHO !HE[D UP TRAIN
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Secure in the fastness of the Ar
gentine Republic, three of the most
noted train robbers in the history of
the West are masters of a great cattle
ranch and at the same time the lead
ers of gang of brigands SO powerful
that the government of the republic
is forced TO pay them tribute, accord
ing to dispatch to the state depart
ment at Washington. The bandits
are George lie Roy Parker, alias
Butch Cassidy" Harry Longbaugh,
alias the Sun Dance Kid" and last,
but not least, Harvey Logan, alias
Kid Curry" the most desperate bri-
gand of them all, who, with Long
baugh made his last public appear
ance In the United States when they
held up Denver & Rio Grande train
at Parachute on June s, 1904, and
although pursued by posses, got away
and eventually reached South Am
erica with their loot.
Logan, who was the leader of
what was known as the wild
Bunch a gang which infested the
Hole-in-the-Wall country and from
there preyed upon the railroads, par
ticipated in score of train robber-
les and has nine murders scattered
along the trail of crime he left in the
West and Southwest. He has fought
and killed officers of the law. and no
prison has been strong enough to
hold him. He has sentences aggre-
eating 100 years hanging over his
head. and the Union Pacific, 1t Is
said. has spent 100000 in trying to
capture him.
The best men of the Pinkerton de-
hat a.
capture the leaders from time to time,
but have failed. They have had all
| three 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
being held awaiting a trip to the
prison at Columbus. Ohio, to serve a
sentence of twenty years for the
Northern express robbery at Wagner,
Mont, was one of his most spectacu-
lar feats of prison-breaking.
With Butch" Cassidy. Longbaugh,
Ben fitzpatrick. alias the Long
Texan." and Deaf" Charley Jones,
Logan held up the train in broad
daylight on June 3, 1901, blew the
express safe and escaped with $40,-
900 In unsigned currency. Fitzpatrick
was captured in st. Louis and sent to
Texas, where he was wanted for kill
Ing sheriff, and is now In the pen
itentiary in that state.
| Deaf" Charley Jones was reported
}killed in saloon brawl in the same
state. but with Logan he turned up
in Knoxville. Tenn. Here they at
tempted to pass some OF the unsigned
currency. and Logan was captured,
Jones escaping by jumping in an ice
wagon and out-distancing the off
GERS. 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 81,
| 1908. he threw wire lasso around
the neck of the guard, and after ty-
ing him to the bars, seized his pistols,
captured the jailer. whom he forced
to conduct him to the stables, where
fhe mounted the sherifrs thorough
bred 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,
Longbaugh and Cassidy had lived
quietly in the Hole-in-the-Wal coun-
try 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.
| When Logan escaped he Joined his
old partners, and 1t was planned to
hold up train at Bitter Creek, Wyo.
but the Union Pacific had put armed
express cars, filled with guards, on
the line, and this plan was aband-
oned. Cassidy returned home, while
Longbaugh, Logan and a man who is
believed to have been Tap Duncan,