The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-05-23

Washington, D. c., May 23.-''This
is the longest criminal record | have
ever SEEM" remarked Major Richard
Sylvester, superintendent of police and
president of the International Associa-
ton of Police Chiefs. exhibiting two
typewriter pages received from Eu-
gene Van Buskirk, superintendent OF
the National Bureau of Criminal Iden-
tification.
The record was that of Harvey Lo-
gan, forty-five years old, OF Dodson,
Mo. Murders, train robberies and 9th
err crimes he is blamed for, committed
at various places throughout the Unit
ed States He is also believed to be
one of a "hold-up" band working in
South America. This man is wanted
by the police authorities to serve SEN
Ohio penitentiary He escaped from
Jail at Knoxville. Tenn.
Major Sylvester has taken a deep
interest in the fugitive's case. He in
tends to try to bring him to justice.
That he may be in Argentina or
some other South American country
may not save him from the Ohio peni-
Tertiary. Major Sylvester will invoke
the aid of the state department to get
him back here.
While his right name seems to be
Harvey Logan, he is known to police
and criminals also as Kid Curry,
Bob Nevilles, Tom James, Robert
Nelson and r. T. Whelan. His Grim
inal career includes seven murders
and two suspected murders, any num-
Der of robberies and shooting scrapes.
Christmas Day, 1894, the record
states, he became known in the Grim
inal world. Pike Landusky, of Lam
dusky, 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
Wilcox, Wyo. Three days later Sher-
iff Hazen. of Converse county. Wyo.,
leading a posse in pursuit of the rob-
bers, was shot to death at Tea Pot
Creek, near Caspar, by Logan.
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.
In July, 1901, he is said to have TAX
en- part in an exciting train robbery
on the Great Northern Railroad, near
Wagner. Mont. Explosives were used
and s41,500 in incomplete bank notes
was obtained as loot.
James Winters, one of those who
hunted July 26 for Logan, twenty
three days after the robbery fell vic.
tim of the bandits revolver. After
Winters death the bad man, accom-
panied by a woman. left Montana for
the South.
In October of that year the woman
was arrested at Nashville, Tenn, for
attempting to pass some of the in
completed notes, proceeds of the train
robbery. Logan managed to escape.
The next heard from the bandit was
the night of December IS. 1901, when
he shot and dangerously wounded two
policemen in Knoxville, Tenn. Six
months later he was convicted Of as
sault and sentenced to serve six
months in the city Jail.
In November, 1902. he was arrested
in Knoxville and convicted of having
attempted to pass some more unfin-
ished bank notes. Sentences aggre-
eating 100 years were imposed. AS a
number of them were to run concur