Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-08-05

us from penlnd every pulding that OIL
fered shelter.
All OF the robbers made their c
except O'Day. He was caught and tried
At his trial he put up such a terrifying
front hat the witnesses were all fright
ened n the jury let him go.
ODay was a member Of the gang. as
was also kid" Curry that held up the
Union Pacific train at Wilcox. Wyo, In
8 The bandits made a stand n q
sheriff was killed n the train robbers
escaped. Flat Nose Curry was hunted
long and industriously by detectives and
sheriffs and his career was finally ended
In 1901. With q comrade named Tom
Cartwright he gave battle to a posse
on the banks Of Green river. Wyo, and
was killed. The title OF "the king Of the
rustlers" then passed to O,Day.
O'Day continued rustling until 1904
when q plucky sheriff had the hardihood
to invade the Lost Cabin district and
beard the outlaw in his len. He got the
drop on O'Day n had him handcuffed
and on his way to the jail at Thermopolis
before O,Day's companions knew what
rustler friends would storm the jail and
rescue him. and the jail was heavily
guarded while he was confined there.
But no rescut party ever showed and a
long penitentiary sentence put IN end to
O'Day's activities.
But to return to Kid Curry.
Early in the morning Of June 8, 1904.
a gang OF bandits held up a Denver and
Rio Grande train at Parachute, Colo.
After blowing two safes and shooting one
railroad employee they obtained only $40.
The bandits fled eastward from Para
chute and stole three horses from a
ranchman named Brady near Rifle. The
ranchman organized a posse OF neighbors
and gave chase and a battle ensued be-
tween Rifle and Newcastle.
In this fight one Of the robbers was
shot from his horse. His companions
rode on and left him and as his pur-
his brains out with his own six shooter.
The dead train robber was identified as
kid" Curry, for whom rewards outstand-
Ing at the time aggregated from $18, 900
to 10000. The Identification. however.
was disputed and for three weeks the
body laid at Parachute, while the contro-
versy ragged. Photographs n death
masks were taken and the body finally
inferred at Glenwood Springs.
The description Of kid" Curry as
broadcast by the Pinkerton detective
agency at that time, was as follows:
Eyes-dark.
Heights feet, l Ia inches.
Weight-l45 to $50 pounds.
Build-medium.
dnu bWdftuy.
Harriet black.
Nose - prominent. large. long and
straight.
Scars, etc.-gunshot wound on right
arm between wrist and elbow; two scars
on back, evidently from buckshot; left
shoulder lower than right, due to wound;
long arms and fingers.
The Pinkerton Detective agency an
nounced positively that the dead bandit
vas kid" Curry. Every railroad in the
west, however, Insisted on the body being
exhumed to confirm the Identification,
and 1t was the Sea- of the gunshot
wound missing from the right arm that
finally proved that the dead bandit was
not the kid"
1t was from pictures Of the dead robber
that the Pinkerton men and the Officers
OF the Knoxville. Tenn. jail, Identified
the dead man as Curry. AS a matter OF
fact. after this was disproved, the iden-
tity Of the dead robber was never learned,
1t was claimed that kid Curry and
George Fitzpatrick were the two robbers
who escaped.
For more than six months the Pinker-
tons had been watching men who were
making a rendezvous at Ozone, Sheffield
and other towns In southern Texas,
Residents Of that section had nothing"
on them, but thought maybe they were
wanted by authorities. The personnel OF
the gang gradually became known. The
movements OF three OF them were care
fully traced n 1t was these three that
pulled off the Parachute train robbery.
Thu claim that the two who escaped
were Kid" Curry and George Fitzpatrick
never amounted. however. TO more thar