The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-02-27
Yellowed Sheaf of His Own
Notes Reveal Reasons
For His Downfall.
CONTEMPT FOR LAW
Had No Use for U. S. Mar
shals of Those Days;
Outwitted Them.

ouit his life of outlawry and settle
down At that time he was per-
,uaded by pioneer newspaper man
+. 4 oklahoma to give 10 the world
ne story OF his life that IL might
srve as a lesson to young Ameri-
rams who might be lured from the
path Of honesty and uprightness to
he seeming glamorous life Of an
outlaw.
working in collaboration. these
two men began writing the story,
which was to have appeared in book
form. Starr, whose education was
limited. wrote his notes with a pen.
ell on common ruled school tablet,
and furnished sideliphts on his "a 70
reer and expressed many of his
thoughts to the newspaper man yer e
ba!ly Only the first two chapters
OF this book were completed when
starr. apparently unable to restrain
himself, resumed his career as a
bandit.
Both the notes written by Starr,
and a typewriter copy OF chapters
one and two are in possession OF the
} newspaper man with whom starr
elaborated. The notes in several
instances are disconnected, b Il \
are nevertheless intellig BILE. The pa
per on which they are written *
yellow with age. They are here
with reproduced, the notes almost
exactly as Starr wrote them and
chapter one of his life history as II
would have read II the book had
been finished:
Born nine miles south OF TT. Gib-
son In 1873. Father one-halt
Cherokee; m o I he one fourth
Cherokee. White ancestors. Eng
lish and Scotch. Two sisters living
one brother died in infancy. Fathers :
name George. Commonly called
mother Mary. Father died in 1856.
Moved into Cooweskooie district in
1858. Education defective; quit
) school at ~. Strong constitution,
almost grown at II.
Life was whilod away up to this
time much the same as hundreds
o. boys in this section at that time.
The country was barely settled and
is pristine beauty had not been
marrod by the touch Of civilization.
Am crack swimmer. Cold wa
ter don't bother mc-ha, ha.
Arrested about 18th of Febru-
AIRY by Marshal Exondin, near No
wa,a Information sOwrn by one
Eaton. Taken 10 TT. Smith and gave
bond before Commissioned Brlzo-
laus, and discharged the following
day Charged with larceny of two
horses
Why He Took to the Open Road.
"A word OF warning now, that !
wish to be printed. not verbatium,
but IN substance; Let any young man
Of honest ambition be arrested and
manaclcd to worthless perJurer,
taken 200 miles from home, all the
time pointed out as a horse thief
ask what respect he can have for
aw with such a representative, and
not one iota of evidence 10 cause
his arrest.
After this never had the same
desire to do right, The false
charge had cost me all the money
had saved, also my horse ana
saddle and when in the followinB
July Ed Newcomb and Jesse Jack
son proposed we rob the express at
Nowata / consented readily.
well sir, after the robbery we
divided the spoils money about mid
night. Ed NewComb's horse was
cut to pieces by the wire, so he took
my horse and they went for the
Usage. I stayed at my brother-in-
laws where l had another mount.
believe l give you my subsequent
arrest, bond and return TO Ft
Smith.
Important. II was n general be-
lief that I knew something OF the
Dalton boys. this being the same
year they were killed. | did know
the Daltons when they were United
States marshala, but knew nothing Of
their numerous hOldups, However,
one Milo Creekmore. a marshal at
that time around TT. Gibson. sug-
gested that he go on the scout with
me. / was az first suspicious OF his
Intentions, but he said he couldn't
make any money riding around as
a marshal. Besides, he wanted 10
be a bandit something along the
style OF George Sheppard Dick
Turpin and Jesse James. had
sufficient knowledge Of the law to
Know that IL a man com mits rob
Z berry even II he was a marshal he
couldn't come through.
$50, few days before my trial
was set, myself and Mr.. CreekmoTe
quietly left TT. Gibson for the Usage
nation. Let me say OF Creekmore,
brave, generous, and OF some in
NllgenCe. But he committed the
ioIly Of trying to combine two call