The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-11-04
HENRY STARR
UNDERC0ES
A CHANGE
Former Oklahoma Outlaws
Nature Has SOttensd Under
Colorado Prison Rule
snecial to the Daily Leader.

Special to the Daily Leader.
Denver, Colo. Nov. i.-"Never let
the name OF Henry Starr get into this
newspaper, never mention him in any
way the editor of an Oklahoma daily
told his men some years ago.
A condition made this command a
necessity Henry Starr at tnat time
was the leader of the famous Dalton
gang, and feared by every man in the
wide Southwest. 1t was dangerous TO
handle the name OF Starr in print.
''lf all men were like Tom lyman /
never would be where | am today. II
all men We're like Cap Baldwin |
would be a good, respectable citizen
and living with my wife and child in
stead of out her. in Colorado con-
vict camp, branded felon wltnout a fu.
ture. without a chance To make good
when | do get out.
But | am done and these two men
have changed my method OF looking
at life and its problems
This is the tribute that Henry Starr
last of the Danon and starr gang, last
of the bold knights of the road that
flourished a decade ago, last of the
lone, train robbers, and yellowback
heroes of the midnight stage and train
robbery, pays, to Warden lyman and
his chief lieutenan, in his roau-build-
ing achievements. Cap Baldwin.
No one at Canon City disputes Hen
ry Starr's title tc being bold, bad
bandit No one who knows the man
and his record can deny that he has
been a fearless and desperate man.
His record is series OF exploits that
have showed plainly his bent and
character Starr is half-breed Chick
asaw Indian.
Spent Most Of His Life in Prison.
Most Of his life he has spent behind
prison walls. He is serving sen;
tence at Canon City for the robbery OF
a bank al Amity in 1908. This was
no ordinary robbery
Starr and Kid Wilson, brave but
bad desperate rode up to the bank at
noon They walked in and told the
cashier that they had come for it, so
tie it up
Starr and his companion escaped
For a month Starr stayed within ten
miles of the scene of the robbery. The
sheriff heard of his Kidding place and
sent deputy to bring him in" The
deputy didn't, but contented himself
with riding in the neighborhood of
Stars hiding place on fine black
horse.
Starr sent word to the sheriff that
If he didn't keep that deputy and the
black horse away from him he would
Kick the deputy off the animal and
take it for his own" Starr then left
that neighborhood but was captured
a year later
But Starr had from l9 years old
been in trouble. Once he was in
Denver with $1,000 in his belt. the
result of train robbery He was in
raid on the bank at Hentonvile,
Ara, and got away with a big loot.
He has never been ''piker' in the
acceptance Of that term.
He once killed a United States mar
shsl and was serving his life term
when he alone and unalded disarmed
bloodthirsty convict who was run
ming amuck. For this Starr was par
doned by President Roosevelt.
He then married and today in Can.
on City live his wife and boy-Theo-
wore Roosevelt Starr. They are await
ing his release.
Starr is a model prisoner and an
intelligent man. Many years he has
spent behind prison walls and become
wise with the wisdom of sorrow. He
says he will be model citizen when
reieased.