The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-09-02
BY FRANK PARKER STOCK
CRIME DOESN' PAYi

BY FRANK PARKER STOCK
BRIDGE
CRIME DOESN' PAYi
You don't have to try 1t to
prove that!
Ask any old-time detective,
who has seen criminals rise, flour
ish for q time, then spend the
rest Of their lives in prison or in
exile.
Ask the four surviving MEM
beers of the ''Wild Bunch who are
hiding in Chili--or were a year
or two agO-what they have to
show for their career of crime.
Fifteen years ago there was/
a more daring band of criminals
in the world than this "Wild
Bunch" as they called them
selves. You've heard Of them-of
the famous "Hole-in-the-wall"
bandits. From 1895 to 1902 they
terrorized the West and South
west, from Wyoming to Texas.
After each crime they sought
refuge in the "Hole-in-the-wall"
country in Wyoming until the
hue and cry subsidized, when they
would return to Texas.
BLACK jack Ketcham was
their leader, with "BilI,' Carver
as chief lieutenant. Then there
was Sam Ketcham, Eliza Lay,
Lonny and Harvey Logan, also
known as the Curry Brothers,
"Flat Nose George" Curry. Bob
Lee, deaf Charlie" Hanks,
Butch" Cassidy, Harry Long
baugh, also called the "Sundance
Kid" and Ben Fitzpatrick. the
"Tall Texan" Two women, too
Laura Bullion and Eta Place.
Robbing railroad tS<ins and
| country banks was their criminal
speciality. They robbed the Butte
County Bank at Belle Fourche,
N. D., in June, 1897; held up the
Union Pacific express train at
Wilcox, Wyo., in June, 1899; held
up another Union Pacific train at
Upton. Wyo., in August, 1900,
and q month later robbed the
First National bank OF Winnie
mucca, New, of $32,640 in gold.
In June, 1901, they took $40,-
500 in bank notes from a Great
Northern train at Wagner, Mont.
And these were only some OF the
larger of hundred or more rob-
berries that netted the ''Wild
Bunch" more than half a million
dollars in seven years.
| Easy money.
| Not at the price they paid.
Listen
BLACK Jack" Ketcham was
hanged at Clayton, N. M, for kill
ing Sheriff Edward Farr, who
was trying to arrest him for a
train hold-up.
| "Bill" Carver was killed in
Texas while resisting arrest for
a murder committed in Sonora.
| Sam Ketcham died in the New
Mexico penitentiary of wounds
received in a fight with a sher-
lifts posse.
Eliza Lay is serving life term
in New Mexico for his share In
the Cimarron train robbery.
Lonny Logan was killed in
Missouri while resisting arrest.
Flat Nose George Curry
was killed in Utah while resisting
arrest.
Bob Lee has Just finished ten
years in the Wyoming peniten-
tiary for his part in the WILCOX
train robbery.
Deaf Charlie Hanks was
killed in San Antonio while re.
sisting arrest.
Ben Fitzpatrick, aThe Tai
Texan" Is finishing fifteen.
year sentence at Atlanta for the
Great Northern robbery, and
Laura Bullion did two years and
a half at Jefferson City for hel
share In this crime.
II Harvey Logan got twenty.
year sentence for the Greai
Northern robbery, but on Novem
Der 20, 1902, broke away from
his guards at Knoxville, Tenn,
sole q horse and fled to thu
mountains.
Three Of the "Wild Bunch es
capped paying the immediate pen
atty of their crimes only by flee
Ing the country. Butch Cas-
H sidy, Harry Longbaugh. the Sun
dance Kid, and Eta Place, VIII
also poses as Longbaugh's wife
went to Argentina. All OF then
were experts With horse an,
rifle Eta Place is markswomal
| leQualled by few men, and witt
what they had left Of their shar'
OF the loot they bought = rancl
In the interior, Here they wer
Joined later BY Harvey Logan.
For two years they raidei
country banks. held up wagon
trains and terroriAed large SEQ
tion Of interior Argentine. Fron
their refuge on the mesa the
approach from any direotion Il
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