Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-06-24

Rawlins. Wyo, a%fterward, where he met
Jack r. and Jim H. of the Twenty-Mile
ranch. My agency was again employed
to run down the gang.
Finally, during the fall, Fitzpatrick,
who was with Kid Curry when l trailed
him n the Blue Mountains. was ar
rested in St. Louis with Kid Curry's
sweetheart. The Kid and one of his
chums made their getaway and went
direct TO Rawlins to dig up some of the
money stolen from the Great Northern,
which he had cached on the Twenty
Mile ranch. The Kid remained in
the vicinity of Rawlins only two DAYS.
and then boarded a train for the east.
But the Kid ran up against a live
issue in Knoxville, Tenn, where he was
arrested after shooting two officers"
Kid Mysteriously Escapes
The Kid had been detected trying to
pass unsigned United States currency.
He was brought to trial in the federal
court, convicted and sentenced to peni-
Tertiary for a total Of 1870 years. Siringo
says that during the trial the stockman
from the Little Rockies was on hand
with plenty Of money; and in some mys-
ferrous tanner, the Kid broke away from
the sheriff before he reached the peniten-
tiary. 1t has been that the
sheriff was bribed to permit the Kid to
gain his liberty, the officer receiving a
sum reported all the way from So, 900 to
$25, 900, for being asleep at the prope
time"
Fitzpatrick was sentenced to is years
In the penitentiary and the Kids sweet
heart also was given a long term.
Siringo, who made his home in Sante
Fe, N. M, during recent years, also tells
of the Kids boldest bank robbery COM
mitted at Morencis, Arizona, in 1910, Just
nine years after the robbery of the Great
Northern train at Wagner.
The MOrencia Bank Robbery
Siringo was employed in 1910 by the
William j. Burns Detective Agency of
Chicago to go to Morencia to determine
who had robbed the ella Valley bank
there. Siringo, after visiting the town
and making an investigation, decided
that Kid Curry was the robber.
Morencia is a mining camp Of 5000
people. 1t is situate in a basin, with
no way to get in or out on horseback.
excepting down a narrow 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 town and tied his
horse to a hitching rack 100 yards from
the bank, the bank being On the ground
floor and q hotel above. Carving a
double canvas bag in his hand, the rob-
Der 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 enclos-
ure in the bank and asked the cashier
to dump the money at the window in
his bag. The mixed coin and currency,
amounting to $500, 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. TIL cashier and book
keeper swore that they were unable 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
who had that combination.
Some Brisk Shooting
Kid Curry at first ordered the cashier
and bookkeeper to get into the outer
vault SO that he Gould 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 start
ed 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. pulling 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 an in
surance agent ran out Of his Office near
by and began shooting with a small az
caliber pocket pistol. No attention was
paid by the Kid to him until he had
fastened the sack securely across his sad
die horn. e he coolly pulled his
Winchester rifle from his saddfe scab-
bard and took one shot at the man with
the toy pistol. The bullet from the Kids
high power rifle buried itself q few inches
above the insurance mans head. and he
ducked back into his office.
BY this time the street In front Of the
company store, nearby, was filled with
men, attracted by the shooting. The
road leading out OF the town at the
mouth OF the canyon, in front Of the
machine shop, was also black with men
In a few minutes after the first shot had
been fired. Curry had to ride Town this
road, through the machine shop en-
ployes, to get out OF town, SO the situa-
ton looked like a desperate one for him.
He took IN the situation very coolly,
however, land mounting his horse he
spurred into a gallop and rode directly
at the GROVE before the machine shop.
Within a few feet of the workmen 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 their hands and knees.
The bandit laughed lou 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, fol-
lowing as fast as their steeds could
travel. On reaching the top of a ridge