The Detroit times., 1910-04-06
COLORADO BANDITS
MENACEARGENT|hA
Kid Curry and Gang Force the Gov
eminent TO Pay Them Tribute
Appeal Is/Made To U. S.

WASHINGTON. April 6.-Seeure
in the Businesses OF the Argentine Re
public. three of the most noted train
robbers In the history OF the west are
masters OF great cattle ranch and
al the same time the leaders OF a gang
of hrigands SO powerful that the gov
eminent of the republic is forced 10
Pay them tribute. according 10 a dis
patch 10 the state department. The
bandits are George lie Roy Parker
alias Butch Cassidy" Harry Long
baugh, 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 a Rio Grande train
at Parachute on June s, 1904, and. al
though pursued by posses. got away
and eventually reached South America
with their loot.
Logan. who was the leader OF what
was known as the Wild Bunch a
gang which infested the HcIe-in-the-
Wall country and from there proved
upon the railroads, participated In a
score OF train rohberies and has nine
murders scattered along the trail of
crime he left In the west and south
west He has fought and killed on.
GERS OF the Law. and no prison has been
strong enough 10 hold him. He has
sentences aggregating 100 years hang
ing over his head and the Union Pa
cific. II is said. has spent 100000 in
trying 10 capture him.
A Useless Chase.
The best men OF the Pinkerton de
tective service have been detailed "a
capture the leaders from time TO time
hut have failed. They have had All
three men mentioned killed or in prts
on. according 10 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 be
ing held awaiting a trip TO the prison
at Columbus. Ohio. 10 serve a sen
tence of twenty years for the North
ern express robbery al Wagner. Mont.
was one of his most spectacular feats
of prison breaking
With Butch" Cassidy. Longbaugh
Ben Fitzpatrick, alias the Ions
exam. anu litdi NfidlltN 1bItS
Logan held up the train in broad day
light on June 3. 1901, blew the express
safe and escaped with $4,000 in un
signed currency Fitzpatrick was cap
tured In St Louis and sent 10 Texas
where he was wanted for killing a
sheriff. and Is now in the penitentiary
In that state.
Caught in Tennessee.
Deaf" Charley Jones was reported
killed in a saloon brawl in the same
state. but with Logan he turned up in
Knoxville. Tenn Here they attempted
TO pass some OF the unsigned currency
and Logan was captured. Jones escap-
ing by jumping In an ice wagon and
out .distancing the officers. Logan was
tried in the federal court and sen
fenced TO twenty years, and the rail
road officials of the west breathcd
easier
He was placed in the county jail
with special guard over him, but not
withstanding this. on June q. 1905
he threw a wire lasso around the neck
Of the guard. and after tying him tc
the bars. seized his pistols. captured
the taller, whom he forced 10 conduct
him To the stables, where he mounted
the sheriff's thoroughbred horse and
escaped On foot and horseback