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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-15
DETECTIVE TELLS OF BOLD BANK ROBBERY
COMMITTED BY KID CURRY, S0MGlE-HAMDED|

Charles A. Siringo, who for %
years was q detective in the employ
of the PinkertOn service, and who
spent four of those years in running
down various members of Kid Cur
RVS "Wild Bunch" which operated
all the way from the Little Rockies
in Montana to Mexico, has just pub
lished a new volume of western rem
~iniscences under the title of "a Lone
Star Cowboy" in which he devotes
a chapter to a single-handed bank
robbery committed by Kid Curry in
this was one of the nerviest jobs of
the kind ever perpetrated.
AS Siringo lived in Phillips county
in the vicinity of Zortman, in the Lit
tie Rockies, for several months, pos
ing as an outlaw hiding out from the
law, he won the confidence of Curry's
friends and got his inside history.
He actually became a member of Cur
RVS Wild Bunch and shared the Sc
crets of the gang, thus becoming al
important factor in breaking up the
outlaws band.
Today Siringo lives in Santa Fe,
New Mexico. He is his own publish
er, and any one wishing to secure a
copy of his latest volume, ga Lone
Star Cowboy" a do so by sending
35 cents to him, and the book will be
sent postpaid. The volume in ques-
ton is neatly bound with a red cloth
cover, illustrated with numerous
photographs of famous outlaws and
sheriffs, and has nearly 800 pages of
reading matter.
Kid Curry's Bank Robbery
The story told by Siringo of Kid
Curry's boldest bank robbery, at Mo-
rencia, Arizona, is substantially as
follows:
Siringo was employed in 1910 by
the William J. Burns Detective Agen-
cy of Chicago to go to Morencia to
determine who had robbed the ella
Valley bank there. Siringo, after
visiting the town and making an in
vestigation, decided that Kid Curry
was the robber.
Morencia is a mining camp of
5000 people. 1t is situated in a
basin, with no way to get in or out
on horseback, excepting down a nar-s
row canyon, at the entrance to which
is a mine machine shop where $50
men were employed at the time.
About 10 o'clock one morning a
lone horseman rode into the town
and tied his horse to a hitching rack
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-15

McGinnis were nearby with fresh
horses and provisions, to aid the KID
in his escape, and there is no doubt
that he had carefully selected his
route over the cliff, knowing hat the
officers would not follow him in that
desperate leap. Kid Curry knew
every foot of that whole country, Sir
lingo said, as he had been a cowboy
along the line of New Mexico and
Arizona under the name of Tom
Capeheart.
Several years previously, accord
ing to Siringo, Kid Curry, under the
name of Capeheart, had shot and
killed George Scarborough, the man
who gained some n~otoriety in the
south by killing John Sillman, slayer
of Wesley Harding, the most noted of
the Texas gun men. Harding had a
record of killing 81 men.
1t was about nine years previous
to the Morencia bank robbery, on
July 3, 1901, that Kid Curry and his
gang held up Great Northern train
No. 3 at Wagner, in Phillips county,
and got $4,000 worth of unsigned
bank notes consigned to the National
Bank of Montana at Helena. The
Kid was arrested two years later at
Knoxville, Tenn, after a battle with
the police, and was held on a charge
of passing unsigned United States
currency, but he my~steriously escap-
ed from Jail. The sheriff, it appear
ed, had been bribed to let him go,
receiving a sum reported all the way
from $4,000 to $4,000.
When Curry Came to Montana
Kid Curry came to Montana in
1884 with his brother, Hank. Sir
lingo says they came from Pueblo, Co
dorado, where the Kid got into
trouble and left suddenly, followed
by a fusilade of bullets.
Curry and his brothers, Hank,
Loney and Johnny, we're in trouble
one or two occasions during the
first few years of their residence in
the Little Rockies country, but they
never outlaws until Kid Curry
Pike Landusky, an old plains
man, in a saloon fight. Landusky
was a fairly tough citizen, and, it is
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-15

Before 1920 is a thing of the past,
Adjutant General Phil Greenan will
publish a book giving a complete re-
port on Montana's official participa-
ton in the great war, with a list of
every man who entered any branch
of the military service of the United
States and the part he played, given
in detail from the date of his enlist
ment or induction into the service
to the date and place of his discharge.
The publication will also include the
names and records as complete as
may be had of every M~ontanan who
served in the Spanish-American war
and those who went to the Mexican
border in 1916. The publication will
give the history of every Montana
military organization and the deeds
of her fighters since the state was
created.
In April or May. General Greenan
expects the complete file of names of
M~ontanans who we're in the army,
navy or marine corps during the
world war, to arrive from the war
and navy departments. The file is
being made up from the official rec
ords and will give the promotions and
demotions, overseas service, decora-
tions or degradations of every man
from Montana.
The file of names of men who
served in the army is being sent on
nine different cards. All of them
have the serial number, date of en-
listment or induction into the service
and place, the names of the various
organizations with which each man
served, the battles in which he fought
and overseas service and whether
honorable discharge or otherwise.
The cards for deserters and those dis
charged for unpatriotic causes, are
yellow. Those who were decorated
for bravery, died on the field or from
wounds are red and the others are
white.
The cards will also show the per-
centage of disability which the sol
der sustained, in preventing him
from following the occupation he had
before he entered the service.
General Greenan said he does not
expect to complete the book before
late next year.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-15

One of the interesting possessions
of Lyle Smith of Lewistown is a copy
of the Helena Weekly Independent Of
April 3, 1879. This, of course, is not
such an ancient document, but it is
old enough to give what now appears
to be some novel views and singular
incidents.
For instance, a dispatch from New
York relates that Edison has perfect
ed an electric light which has been
successfully tested at his machine
shop, where IL of the new lights did
the work of Is old-fashioned gas jets,
the lights being as high as 80 candle
power intensity.
Indians i'm Fights
An item bearing the caption, "The
Scalpers," has a local interest. 1t
says:
1.-THE scalpers were in town yes
terday. We mean some members
of the Flathead tribe of Indians. 1t
seems that while they were in the
Judith basin country on their annual
buffalo hunt a party of 10 came
across a war party of seven Sioux. A
fight ensued which resulted in the
taking of two of the latter. The
visitors seem to be very proud of the
exploit, as they exhibited the scalps
on the street with much apparent sat
isfaction."
An interview with Meagher county
residents conveys the information
that the election On the proposition
to move the county seat from Dia-
mond City to White Sulphur Springs,
the proposed change would be voted
down by a large majority.
One of the advertisements announ-
ces that the steamer Benton will
leave Bismarck about April Is; the
steamer Helena will leave Sioux City
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-15

with men, attracted by the shooting
The road leading out of the town al
the mouth of the canyon, in front OF
the machine shop, was also black
with men in a few minutes after the
first shot was fired. Curry had to
ride down this road, through the ma
chine shop employees, to get out OF
town, so the situation looked like a
desperate n for him.
He took in the situation very cool
ly, however, and mounting his horse
he spurred into a gallop and rode dir
ectly at the crowd before the machine
shop. Within a few feet of the work
men he checked his horses speed to
a trot and turned the barrel of his
rifle toward the crowd. This caused
a scattering, some crawling away on
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-15

100 yards from the bank, the
a hotel above. Carrying a double
canvas bag in his hand, the robber
entered the bank and pulled down
the curtain on the glass-paneled front
door, which he also locked. He then
threw down his Colts As pistol on
the cashier and bookkeeper, who
were the only occupants of the bank,
and their hands went up in a hurry.
Curry then entered the private en-
closure in the bank and asked the
cashier to dump the money at the
window into his bag. The mixed coin
and currency, amounting to $1,000,
was accordingly poured into Curry's
canvas sack. The Kid then led the
cashier into the outer vault, the door
of which was open, and in the corner
of which lay a great many sacks of
silver dollars. The Kid held up his
sack and ordered the cashier to pour
in some of the silver. When 5000
had been emptied into the sack Curry
said it was enough. The cashier and
bookkeeper swore that they were I'M
able to open the inside vault of the
bank, where most of the money was
kept. They said the manager of the
company store, which also owned the
bank, was the only one who had that
combination.
Some Brisk Shooting
Kid Curry at first ordered the ca
shier and bookkeeper to get into the
outer vault so that he could lock
them up, but their promises to keep
still till he had escaped led him to
change his mind, and shouldering his
heavy sack, he started for his horse,
which was tied about 100 yards away.
He had not gone more than half way
before the cashier and bookkeeper
rushed out of the bank and started
shooting at him with a shotgun and
pistol. The charge of shot hit the
ground near Curry's feet. He coolly
put the sack on the ground, and pull
ing his pistol, sent the two bankers
scurrying back into the building.
Bullets from his pistol hit the walls
close to them.
Curry again shouldered his sack
and had just reached his horse when
insurance agent ran out of his Of
flee nearby and began shooting with
a small 22-caliber pocket pistol. No
attention was paid by the Kid to him
until he had fastened the sack secure
ly across his saddle horn. Then he
cody pulled his Winchester rifle
his saddle scabbard and took
one shot at the man with the toy
pistol. The bullet from the Kids
high power rifle buried itself a few
inches above the insurance mans
head, and he ducked back into his Of
flee.
BY this time the street in front of
the company store, nearby, was filled
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-15

said, had abused the Kid on one occa-
sion when Landusky was acting as
deputy sheriff and had the Kid in his
custody. The killing of Landusky
took place in the saloon of Jew Jake
at the town of Landusky. The Kid
was accompanied by his brother, Lo-
ney, and Jim Thornhill, the latter
now foreman for the Coburn Brothers
on their cattle ranch in Arizona. The
Kids friends always claimed that
Landusky vas pulling his gun when
Curry shot. The Kid, however, did
not stand trial, but disappeared and
became an outlaw.
From that time he was at the
head of the "Wild Bunch" a gang
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-15

their hands and knees. The bandit
laughed loud enough to be heard
plainly by the men. Then he spurred
his horse and dashed down the hill,
turning soon to the left over a side
road. AS he looked back he saw two
men on horses and carrying rifles,
following as fast as their steeds could
travel. On reaching the top of a
ridge the bandit left the road and
turned down a gulch, out of sight of
the deputy sheriffs, as the two riders
were.
Desperate Leap for Life
When the two officers reached the
head of the gulch they saw the out
law riding at breakneck speed down
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-15
Copper Tubing in Demand

81 want about three feet of cop
per tubing" a customer of a local au-
tomobile supply store told the clerk.
"Three feeti" echoed the aston
ished clerk. why, man, three feet
isn't enough. You need at least 80
feet. Three ten-foot lengths are
what you want, if you're going to
make a worm for a whisky STILL"
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-15
BARONET SERVED
IN ROYAL POLICE
JOHN TEMPLE WAS KNOWN TO
BORDER MONTANANS AS A
CONSTABLE

But Was Twelfth in His Line From
That Lady Godiva Who Rode
Through the Streets of Coventry
Clad Only in Her Hair; Temple Is
Dead at Prince Albert.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-01-15
GEN. CREENAN TO
ISSUE WAR BOOK
WILL CONTAIN NAMES OF EVERY
MONTANA MAN WHO WAS
IN SERVICE

Together With Part He Played in
Great Unpleasantness; Also the
Names, as Far as Possible, of the
Men Who Served in Spanish-Amer-
lean War; Complete Book in 1920.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-13
Port Commission Plan
Protested at Hearing

The Board of Estimate held public
hearing yesterday to en,er a protest
against the report of the New York
New Jersey Port and Harbor Develop
ment commission and against the bill
now before the Legislature to create a
commission of six, three from this state
and three from New Jersey, to formu-
late plans for the development of the
Port of New York. State Senators John
j. Boylan. Charles E. Russell and I.or-
ing NJ. Black jr., of Brooklyn, and Peter
a. Abeles, of the Bronx, sat with the
board
Senator Boylan said that Senator
Walters, the ma jority leader, told him
that the Legislature should pass the
rort treaty. but that nothing would be
done with the present bill if the New
York City members were against it, He
said he was sure that this would be so
# the Board Of Estimate sent a firm,
strong statement to the Legislature
against the measure. He declared they
did not want to let the improvements
that had been made to the docks in
New York City be cast into the discard.
Mayor Hylan said he had been in
formed that the same foreign interests
that had been trying to get the docks
away from the city were behind the
bill, because they believed they could
do better with the port plan than they
could with the present city administra-
ton Senator Russell declared that it
was the feeling in his district in Queens
that the enactment of the treaty would
be q death blow to the proposed inl-
provements at Jamaica Bay.
Various speakers declared that no
one knew what the contemplated plans
were, and that the Board of Estimate
4
plan before it knew what it was. F. E.
Lonas, of 5S7 Park Avenue, said he had
reason to believe that plan had been
outlined, but was being kept secret.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-13
.Cuinzb'lrg Upheld
In Asking Relief
Funds at Dinner
Rosalsky Says Colonel's Act
in Supplanting Him as
Presiding Officer Was
the Only Logical Course

II. A. Guinzburg, chairman of he
finance committee of the $500, o00
campaign for Jewish relief. gave out a
statement yesterday explaining his &C
ton in supplanting Judge Otto A. Ro-
salsky as presiding officer at the cam
paign dinner Sunday night and solicit
ing subscriptions in spite of the an
nouHcement previously made that no
subscriptions would be sought at the
dinner.
L was the e-loosening speeches
made by Herbert C. Hoover, Judge
Abram [. Elkus and Louis Marshall
describing the situation in eastern
Europe, he said that had inspired his
action. Judge Rosalsky gave out a
statement saying that Mr.. Guinzburg
did just right.
After the remarkable speeches by
Messrs. Marshall, Abram I. Eikus, OF
the Court of Appeals, and Mr. Hoover
SAID Mr.. Guinzburg, giving the har-
rowing details of the -rightful suffer
lngs in eastern Europe from typhus
famine and cold, I arose without per
mission from the chair and addressed
the thousand persons in the audience.
was sure that my judgment would be
sustained and that the audience would
despite the fact that managers of the
dinner committee had announced that
no appeals would be made, voluntarily
make subscriptions.
THAT my judgment was correct was
evidenced by the fact that the house
almost ly--with the excep-
ton OF perhaps less than ten-voted
down the committee and permitted sub
scriptions to be made"
Judge Rosalsky said in his state
ment:
While Colonel Guinzburg's action
took me and the other guests complete
" by surprise. it was the proper and
logical step to take, in view of the fact
that the diners had been greatly
aroused by the eloquence Of Mr.
Hoover, Judge Elkus and Mr. Marshall
and were only awaiting the opportu
rity to contribute in order that the
campaign might be properly inaug-
urated. | am very glad, indeed. that
Colonel Guinzburg was able to wrest
me chair from me and that the con-
tributions flowed in in such volume"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-13
r. Hall Met ormick
Art Collection To
Be Sold at Plaza
Fourscore Portraits and
Landscapes of British
School Give Impression
of Mellow Serenity

There will be sold next Thursdav
evening at the Plaza the fourscore nor
traits and landscapes Of the British
school brought together by the late R.
Hall Mccormick, Of Chicago. They
nay be seen in the mean time at the
American Art Galleries, where thew
convey in an unusually charming man
ner the impression of mellow serenity
significant OF a great period in the
history of painting. 1t is a period
which always revives interesting re-
aections on the qualities of race as
they are adjusted to the laws of con-
vention London, like Paris, was gov
erned by convention in artistic mat
.ers in the eighteenth century. It fol-
lowed the formal influence of court.
But the more robust elements of the
British nature were always coming to
the surface. In any collection of
French portraits of this period one is
struck above all by their consummate
artifciality. In a collection like the
one at present under review artifce is
Of merely human traits.
The point is we'll illustrated by the
portrait Of Young Girl" which we
meet on the threshold of the exhibition.
1t is minor canvas as such things
go, the work Of Francis Cotes, who was
e contemporary of Sir Joshuas and
grew UP under the same tradition with
cut achieving anything like Sir Joshua's
fame. He is one Of the lesser lights.
But in his way he shines, to use the
old tag. with clear, steady flame. He
does so by virtue Of his human vitality.
His sitter in this case is type of
girlish sweetness, and, quite apart from
the graceful technique Of the portrait,
we are beguiled by the artistic inter-
pretstion Of personality. There we
recognize the keynote of the show.
Mr.. Mccormick was Enthusiastically in
terested in particular school. but be-
aides an historic mode of painting he
cared for works with which it was
agreeable to live. The canvas hanging
beside the Cotes notably confirms this
idea. 1t is Raeburn's Portrait of Mrs.
MaeNeill.' The most famous of Scotch
painters was an uneven craftsman. He
had moods in which he left his por-
traits thin and papery. But when a
lovely sitter stirred him to do his best
he flung his brush upon the canvas
in kind of bravura. linking him with
the leaders of his profession.
Brush Work Admirable
It is for it's brush work that this
MRS. MacNeill" is particularly admira-
BE, the brush work which defines the
figure and its draperies with irresisti-
Gle attack, which endues the sylvan
background with VIVID reality and
then, as for climax, sets the ladys
countenance before US with a keen and
delicate precision. There arc two other
Raeburns in the collection. One of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-13
The Stage Door

F: Ziegfeld jr. has signed Il contract
to write the score of an operetta 70,
production this fall. Augustus Thomas
Will do the libretto and Gene Buck the
lyrics for this production. The sta,
has not yet been selected The sue
cess of Fritz Kreisler with "Apple
blossoms is avowedly responsible fo1
Mr.. Ziegfeld's idea.
When "The Bonehead" was presented
last night at the Fulton Theater Fred
erlck Arnold Hummer enjoyed the
opening of his third play of the sea
son. Mr.. Hummer is the author OF
My Golden Girl" playing at the Ca
SIM affc The Ma gic Melody" which
ran Tor five months at the Shubert
Theater.
Gorki's might Lodging" which was
given at matinee performances earle,
IN the season, will be revived BY
Arthur Hopkins at the Plymouth
Iheater beginning this evening.
"Orchids." q new play By Charming
Pollock, author of "The Sign on tbs
Door," is being completed and will Be
produced by A. H. Woods early in the
fall
Emmett Moore's ireland a Nation.
which played at the Lexington Theatel
last week, has been held over for an.
other week at this thea.er.
Rachel Barton Buffers play, "Mam
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-13
Unusual Activity
Marks Waning of
1920 Opera Season
More Extra Performances
Have Been Given Than
in Any Previous Year,
w it'll One Exception

The end of the opera SEASON at the
Metropolitan is developing extraor-
binary activity. There was a special
matinee yesterday-the second for the
benefit Of the Emergency Fund-and
there is to be another next Friday.
Altogether there have already been a
dozen extra matinees, besides the extra
evenings, and the total number of per
1ormanees this season will probably be
greater than IN any season within the
metropolitan company's history save,
possibly, one.
The program Of yesterday afternoon
Forza del Destino," one of "Rigoletto, -
one Of "Tosca" and the opening chorus
and ballet from the third act of "Sam-
son ct Dalila."
Mr.: Caruso, being down for "Pagli-
acct wbi ch with "L'Oracedo" as cur
tam raiser provided the evenings en-
tertalnment, was not among the after
noon forces; wherefore, combined DOS
slbly with the interference from which
railway traffic is suffering, the audience
was smaller than usual, but large
enough to show the powerful hold
which opera has obtained upon the
public.
Mr.. Scott, not being tenor, sang
1oth afternoon and evening, though in
Leorcavallo's opera he turned the part
OF Tonic to Mr.. Amato. However, he
had garncred glory enough to satisfy
any artist as Scarpia and Chin fang,
two of his finest dramatic impersons-
tons.
Miss Ponselle, Nine. Barrientos and
Miss Farrar were the prima donnas OF
the afternoon, and Miss Sundelius and
Miss Muzio in the evening. 1t is scarce
ly necessary to add that "Pagliacci"
drew characteristic Caruso audience.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-13

me name Of Turner often connotes
a strain OF Claude-like elegance, too,
put 1T does not appear in Mr.. Nc
CoEmicks two examples. The "Bath
ABBEY" IS one of his early ESSAYS in
purely architectural portraiture. There
Is more. of the really great Turner
IN the picturesque "Snowdon," with its
ola mouse and huge covered wagon
arcless!y ming the foreground be-
peak.
This is good page from the purely
naturalistic hook of British landscape.
the book which we may see unfoIded
by Constable and Bennington, Cotman
and Crome, Nasmyth nd divers
others. 1t is school that has been to
certain extent left behind BY the
growth of landscape painting. Onlv
Constable, in TIE beautiful little
Hampstead Heath" truly mastery
panel, and BONN gton in his italian
Landscape are, beyond peradventure
subordinate types share the sincerity
and truth of those masters.
In George Moreland the qualities IF
eighteenth century English landscapes
and genre meet and are delightfully."-
fused. There are four pictures by him
in the show, from which we would sig
nalize one wholly characteristic prs
duction. the Rustic Cottaee." There
are a few portraits of Continental
origin on the walls, a couple of respect
able canvasses by Janssens and Mere
welt, and a notable "Portrait of a
Lady" attributed to Moro. But the
collection in the main is one of English
art, coming down from such types as
we have traversed to studies OF the
nude by ETY. mildly humorous desipns
by Smirke, romantic historical COM
position by Sir David Wilkie, and so on
through list which need not be ex-
amined in detail. For the amateurs
who specialize in such matters we may
conclude with brief appreciative
reference TO Lungs "Warships Of
Admiral Nelson" and Robert Pollard's
Coach versus Steanl," a spirited relic
of old sporting days.