The Springdale news., 1919-03-21
HENRY STARR IS FREE AGAIN
.,. Outlaw Paroled From Pen ,..,ti.ry By Oklahoma Governor
 l s,,rr Robbed Bentonsille Bank.

oklahoma City. Okla, March IT,
 .,rr Starr, Bank robber and ban
 arrived in Oklahoma City today
 ,oa from the state penitentlary
 m.Alaster by Governor Robert
 rAo naroIe was taken to Starr by
 ,al;ar Tilghman, former United
 .n4as marshal, and Stars wife and
 sear.old son, who have worked un- Friagly for his liberty
 ctorr % has been in prison since 1915,
 han he was captured after series
 bank robberies in Oklahoma, Kan
 as and Arkansas that for boldness
 Inrnassed any of the many crimes at
 r;bnted to Jesse James.
 Captured in 1915.
 The capture of the bandit occurred
 March. 1915. when Paul Curry, l6
 ,oars old. shot Starr in the hip while
 tbe hank robber and his gang were .eseaping after robbing a bank. [# Starr pleaded guilty and was sen- stenced to 9 years in prison, with be agreement, Governor Robertson
 ,ad today, that he would be paroled sin five years The parole, the gov zernor explained in answer to many protests today, is merely carrying out zthe terms of the agreement entered
 Unto by the prosecution at the time of the trial.
 E Starr's robberies were daylight bank raids and for months he and his
 gang seemed to lead charmed lives. E Given Presidential Clemency. Ri Before coming to Oklahoma Starr served one term in the Ohio state pen itentiary. He was sentenced for a life term for robbing q bank, but was pardoned by President Mckinley and
 restored to citizenship by President Roosevelt He is a highly educated # Cherokee Indian and his relatives are E said to be wealthy He is 48 years
 old.
 E I'm through, he said today, If 3 for no other reason than l know the game cant be beaten. I'm going to E prove to my son that l can % N straieht.'
 Mere Bos His Nemesis. P Persons familiar with the case re |5call the circumstances surrounding < the final capture of Starr. The ban # iit and his men had robbed the Bank of Stroud and were riding away when the bullet fired by the youth, Curry. from a short-barreled rifle, struck # him down.
 # eurry had watched the bandits en- 1t ter the bank and ran into butcher shop where he obtained a gun used Tor killing hogs As Starr fell Cur #ry shouted, Throw away your gun 8or I'll kill you" Starr cast the weapon from his hand. In a skir- *misn with the townspeople, Louis hstes, member of the gang. was wounded, but with the others escaped Wanted Stake" for Son.
 1t was for his son that he staged 'ne robbery, which resulted so disas- \ 'rously, Starr said after his capture
 wanted to make a stake for him. IN the boy out and go off somewhere ana De forgotten,n he is reported to have said W The robbery of the Stroud bank. s"iVn Is regarded as the most daring @senlpt Of It's kind in the history of eN'ahoma' was but the elimination of iOns record of hold-ups, murders. bank robberies.
 :" the early sos, when Henry Starr vas Tn his teens, evil companions led - l ,n'o fis first crime-the selling ~hiskey to the Indians. according ms own story of his life. Accom- s ra"'ea by his sister, Belle, and a man ,ot, 'o De hls brother Bill" he S ,oooed ,ooa the express office at Nowata in Io'i, This was followed bv inc Iliaer of Deputy United States Mar saal Floyd Wilson
 Robbed Bentonville Bank. s bsnd;tss surprisingly rapid succession fan q'ss ' sad to have been led by Starr, tonrp @poa the Bentonville bank at Ben 5 s,a' ,snvllie' Ark; the Chelsea railroad ss ,4,,on' ,,.l the Missouri, Kansas and Tex at aa N at Pryor Creek, Okla. stores 6bsnts s9.a,a and Choctaw, Okla, the v.Hs.' H d, Aidrieh, Mo, and the Canev T pahk at Caney, Kan. tbe a story of Starr's marriage to bis so''lan s whose untiring efforts for ono .s seeeom have been rewarded is I careo. .. the most romantic spots in his held ',, r In 1902, when a train was girl na rp at Pryor Creek, Okla, a into ths.hger' th erazed by fear. fec and toal 1 uarkness. Starr found hel ber took her on his horse to the rob. train :. 'p He then put her on a ward bo D continue her journey. After