Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-08-05
The END of KID CURRY

a claim. George Fitzpatrick was a brother
to Ben Fitzpatrick who was sentenced to
is years In a federal penitentiary in
Ohio for the Great Northern robbery at
| Wagner.
Apietufe OF Olga Fitzpatrick, q sister Of
the Fitzpatrick boys, was found in the
pocket Of the bandit who killed himself
to evade capture. and this for a time
strengthened the belief that he was
Curry. In 1904 1t was reported that
Curry had been seen In Rock Springs.
Wyo. The Union Pacific Immediately got
busy and put on an armed special train
OF an engine and two cars, one OF which
was an armory on wheels and the other
built to accommodate Ia horses. This
train raj back and forth between Lar
annie and Green River, ready for any at
tempt at train robbery and for instant
pursuit.
1t has been denied that kid" Curry
was guilty OF any further crimes in the
United States after his escape from the
Knoxville jail, where he or his friends
on the outside presumably bribed jail
officials.
After the Great Northern robbery at
Wagner the gang split up. kid" Curry
and another of the crowd known as
Deaf Charley" went south, Curry TAX
ing a with him. They landed in
signed bills OF the National Bank OF
Montana. Deaf Charley was suspected
first, but when about to be arrested he
leaped into a milk wagon, put a gun
against the drivers ribs and forced him
to Jump out. Selling the reins Charlie
dashed the horses and drove out of the
city In a shower Of bullets, and boarded
an outgoing train near a water tank. He
then went to San Antonio, Tex, where he
was killed resisting arrest on April 10,
1902.
Curry came under suspicion q few days
later. He had been spending money
with a lavish hand and he and the wo-
man with him were carousing about the
city. Curry engaged IN a barToom brawl
with a number OF notorious characters
and tried to shoot one of them and his
antagonist fled. Later in the day the
kid" was located by two officers and
shot and wounded both Of them. He
was pursued by other policemen and
after a desperate fight was captured near
the outskirts of the city.
The accepted story now is that Curry
escaped from the Knoxville jail, hat he
beat his way on freight trains and walked
to Minneapolis. where he had a sister.
His sister gave him q few dollars and he
beat his way to Seattle, robbing q safe in
a 1ewelry store on the way.
In Seattle he got work on q sailing ship
bound for South American ports n de-
serted 1t at Valparaiso. For a time he
worked for q copper company then
crossed the Andes into the Argentine.
There he robbed several railroad stations.
He later vent back to the west coast n
took ship to Punta Arenas and from
there to Gallegos nearby, where gold was
being washed from the beach sands.
There he staked q claim. He got on q
spree In Punta Arenas and was Jailed. He
broke out OF Jail and walked up through
Patagonia, robbing outlying trading
posts n ranches until he came to the
transcontinental railroad. Here again he
robbed several railroad stations.
He slipped through there into Buenos
Aires and became acquainted with and
joined q band of international counter
letters. He got or a spree mt was locked
In jail for fighting. He again managed
to escape from jail and then went into
Brazil where he worked in a logging
camp for months. He then went back to
Buenos Aires and from there to Punta
Arenas. He reached the latter place very
drunk and the next morning robbed
several citizens at the point of q gun.
II was there that his real identity was
learned for the first time while he was
under arrest In South America. Although
he had been arrested numerous times
before n although the Argentine gov
eminent knew that the notorious Ameri-
can bandit was In the country. his iden-'
tity bad never before been established.
The community was terrified and while
kid" YVES in q drunken sleep he was
tied and put on q horse. In the midst OF a
party he was taken 80 miles north and
turned adrift In . wild and d~esolate
country. His cAptors saw hin stsrt
north on foot. He was never seen again.