Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-02

 Fort Worth. a witness in a damage suit. says the Fort Worth Record. This man is Frank E. Harrington, one Of the few remaining in active service. of the oldtime train cOndnc- tors. but it is not exactly safe to refer to him as an old man. Hc admits to & and looks a few days younger. But be is-well. be IS older than that
 Harrington is a modest man. Most of those who could pull a trigger under the stress Of a seanee with a train robber are modest men, or were, for nearly all of them have fhose who are left do not Ike 70 talk about the stirring times when train conductor on the old Den CT had something to do besides to run the train Harrington does not grow very loquacious when the name of Black Jack is mentioned. There was something about his connec- tiOn with that bandit that has left a retieence that is hard to stir up into small talk. But the fact that a real live bandit catcher was fin our midst was too good to let get away.
 
 Of the irrepressible type. on the trail of Mir. Harrington. and he just had to cut loose the yaTn.
 An real train robbers are dead or in prison. and this story deals with the going Of one of these men who boasted before his death that he had lived for twenty years by garnering the reward Of other peO- ple's labor
 Death Penalty.
 New Mexico had a statute which made it a crime punishable by death, spelled with a capital D, to even attempt to rob a train, and Black Jack, one Of the most notorious of all those who adopted train robbing as a business robbed the last train that was robbed on the soil of New Mexioo-and incidentally Black Jack was hanged at Clayton, Y. M. in 1901. and the memory of his fate has kept terror in the hearts Of those who would forsake the blow and the spade for the handle of ia six-shooteT and black mask. Black Jack was a tall, well-pro- poruoned bandit, a man whose black hair gave him his name. He was H. literate, and often got his English badly mixed and his pronunciation marked him as of that class whose inspirations are not gained from good books-but this man Black Jack could shoot and furthermore Black Jack did shoot, and shoot terrifv- ingly straight. But there never was game that two could not play at, and t was this rule that proved Jacks undoing.
 Here is the way that Black Jack quit rObhing trains:
 In 1885 Frank F. Harrington came to Fort Worth and secured employ meut as a train dispatcher for the Fort Worth S Denver road. In 1889 Harrington forsOok the office position and accepted a position as conduc- tor on the road and ran betW Ween Clarendon and Texline. In 1891 he vas promoted from a freight run ! to passenger conductor, and assigned : between Clarendon and Trinidad, Colo. The Colorado Southern road ! passed through little corner of ' New Mexico. There is a little station on that road named for Grover Cleve- lands wife, Folsom. This little sta tion is located on the headwaters Of the little Dry Cimarron, a small creek, and the country whereabouts WAS particularly attractive tc thCsa who desired to rob trains In 1897, on one of his trips, Harringtons tra-n was stopped by Black Jack and two of his men, and the express car footed. Their plan was to catch the train at the coal chute, and when it reached a point about four miles southeast Of Folsom one of the bandits crawled over the coal board to the engine got the drop on the engineer and firemen and compelled them to stop the train The plan worked all right, and ac companied by the engineer and fire man the bandits went :o the bag gage car, ordered the baggagemar out, which order was obeyed The safe was blown open with the third charge, and something Ike 8, 90l was secured. The first robbery o Harringtons train occurred on July II, 1897 IL was his first experience with Black Jack. Now Harrington happened to be one of those conduc tors who resented even a man witf six-shooter taking charge of hi! train, and he could not quite get il  out of his system that 1t ought tC be stopped. But it did not stop, fol the same train was held up ans robbed by the same people at th' same place again in 1899 On this On this occasion Hamil Scott, whC lost his life in Fort Worth the day Jeff Mclean was killed in endeavoT ing to capture the murderer of Nc Lean, was the baggageman on hi. train. There had been tip giyeF to the officials Of the road, and two sheriffs were aboard the train. liar rington, accompanied by these sheT ifs. got off the rear end Of the train and endeavored to get to ths horses of the outlaws before fhe7 reached them. The robbers move. the train of and left the sheriff and Harrington there. and to make matters worse the robbers wert armed with rifles. while the mer who stood for law and order had only six-shooteers.
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