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

1T IS pretty generally conceded That
kid" Curry Harvey Logan motor
ious bandit and train robber during
the latter part Of his carer. but for
many years prior TO that q peaceful
enough COW puncher of northern Mon
tAna, came to an end in South America
far down In the country along the Chill
can and the Argentine boundary line.
The details OF his death, however, prob
ably will never be known. He was given
q ride out Of Punta Arenas by = party
Of Chilean horsemen and 80 miles north
Of there was unbound by them and
turned loose. That Is the last the world
ever heard Of him.
Kid Curry was chiefly known to Mon
tanans for his robbery Of the Great
Northern train at Wagner. July g.. 1901.
at which time he and his men obtained
$40, 900 in unsigned bank notes OF the
National Bank OF Montana at Helena, and
1t was this crime which led directly to
the downfall Of Curry n his gang.
According to Curry's history as COM
at that time, however, he was the leader
OF the bank robbery at Belle Fourche, s.
D., June 28, 1897; the Union Pacific
train robbery at Wilcox, Wyo, June q,
1899. and the Upton, Wyo, robbery OF
the Union Pacific August 30, 1900. 1t
with a great many crime that he did not
commit and 1t is probable that he was
guilty Of many OF which he waS never
suspected.
The Belle Fourche bank robbery. for
instance, has been charged to the Tom
O'Day gang which at one time made Its
headquarters in the Lost Cabin country
Of Wyoming, about so miles from Their
mopolis. Tom OrDay was hand in glove
with the Hole In the Wall crowd Of des-
peradoes which Curry at one time trained
along with Butch" Cassidy and Harry
L~ongabaugh and the Fitzpatrick boys,
but as q matter OF fact he was chief OF
a gang In his own right.
ODay's principal occupation was In
stealing livestock and he caused thous-
ands Of dollars Of loss to stockmen OF
Montana and wyoming. His mentor In
this industry was Flat Nose" Curry inc
relation to Kid Curry and it is quite
the Belle Fourche bank robbery that he
was merely a private In the ranks under
command OF O'Day and Flat Nose"
Flat Nose" Curry, whose name alone
was enough to make stOckmen draw q
rueful face, was a Nebraskan who moved
into Wyoming ! n the 8o's when great
herds Of cattle roamed the foothills. He
organized a gang Of rustlers and began
operations on a wholesale scale that
reached far across the Wyoming line into
Montana. He was an expert with the
huntingdon. There was hardly a cOmbi-
nation among the brands OF either Mon
tana or wyoming which Flat Nose
Curry did not know how to change to
his own advantage.
ODay at that time a dare devil young
cowboy, Joined Flat Nose" and made ar
able lieutenant and the depredations OF
the two became so great that h Cat
tlemen's association started after them
They made 1t SO hot for them hat they
were forced to leave their home range In
wyoming and come into Montana
Later when things quieted down n wy
oming they returned there and levied
tribute both pom sheep and cattle.
When there was little rustling to be
lone O'Day and Flat Nose" and their
men Joined with kid" Curry, Butch
Cassidy n others OF the Hole in the
Wall gang in other ventures n were
present and had a land In most of the
Union Pacific train robberies Of that
crowd.
When the Belle Fourche robbery was
planned, O'Day WAS sent ahead of the
gang to spy out the land and was to In
form his companions II things did not
look propitious for the robbery. O'Day
got drunk and fell asleep sitting in
chair in a saloon. The others, hearing
nothing from him, presuming the coasi
to be clear, descended upon the town
firing at everything in sight. clattegec
up to the bank and obtained q consider.
able sum of money. O'Day was aroused
from his sleep by the firing Of his com.
panions. He found the robbers beset BY
the t~ownspeople wh0 had flOckod to ths
scene armed with rifloe. shot gums anc
revolvers and were shooting IT the band