New-York tribune., 1921-02-19
Starr, 'Culred'
Bandit, Shot i'm
Bank TIold-U
Outlaw Pardoned by Okla
homa Governor ON Pledge
to Reform Is Dying, a
Prisoner, in Arkansas
Posse Traps Companions
Financial Official Makes
Effective Use of a Rifle
He Placed i'm a VatGt

HARRISON, Ark, Feb. 18.--The
reformation of Henry Starr, notorious
as an Oklahoma outlaw and bank rob-
ber, did not last long, for to-day he
was shot and probably fatally wounded
following the robbery of the Peoples
Bank of Harrison.
With two other men, Starr ordered
officials of the bank into vault. One
of the officials, who had hidden a rife
in the vault, obtained the weapon. He
shot Starr and opened fire at the BAN
dts two accomplices, who escaped.
Starr, lying wounded on bed at the
county Jail, admitted his identity, but
at first refused to give any informa-
tion concerning his companions, who
are surrounded in wood, two miles
south of the town, by an armed posse
of more than one hundred men.
Starr was shot through the body
there was little chance for his recov-
cry.
Wires Wife and Son
Starr underwent an operation at the
Jail, made in an effort to save his life,
and dictated kilograms to his wife, at
Tulsa, Okla, and his son, Henry Starr
jr., at Oklahoma City, telling them
that he was dying.
II always expected to die with my
boots on" Starr said to officers.
At the Jail it was said Starr gave
the names of his two companions as
Buck Davis and Tom Jones.
Following his release from the Okla
homa State Prison, to which he had
been sentenced to serve twenty-five
years for bank robbery, Starr an
nounced that he had forsaken crime
and intended to devote his life to up
lift work. One Of his plans was to
make a film showing by his own career
that outlawry is futile. Starr was
pardoned by Governor Roberts of Okla
homa after serving four years of his
term.
1t has been only few years since
newspapers reported the crimes of q
gang of which Starr was the leader.
F Following the robbery of a Stroud
wounded and later sent to prison, the
band dispersed.
Express Robbery His First
In 1892 Starr, with companion,
committed his first robbery, holding up
an express office at Nowata. In 1898
he and Frank Chane& robbed the Caney
Valley National Bank at Caney, Kan,
of $45,000, On May 5, 1898, the same
two held up Missouri, Kansas d
Texas passenger train, getting $4,000
and a consignment of cut diamonds.
Their next exploit was to ride into
Arkansas and rob q BentonVille bank
of $11 800, June 6, 1898. Soon after
the Bentonville robbery the gang dis
banded.
Starr went at once to the Usage
country, where he met his sweetheart,
Miss Mary Morrison. In a covered
wagon they started for Emporia, Kan,
where they were to catch train for
California and get married. At Colo
rado Springs they were overtaken by
detectives.
Starr was taken back to Fort Smith
and convicted of The murder of Deputy
Sheriff Wilson, Of the train robbery
and the Nowata express depot robbery.
He was sentenced to be hanged, The
United States Supreme Court reversed
findings III the case. On his second
trial he was convicted, and again APP
pealed. On the second remanding OF
his case TO the Fort Smith Fedora
Court he was given a combined sen
tence of thirteen years for the three
crimes.