Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-26

as to It's contents The officers could not prove
the contrary and she was accordingly released.
About this time Ben Fitzpatrick arrived ID
st. Louis and engaged In q series OF drunken
orgies. This time, instead of being horse
buyer he posed as q planter from Mississippi.
Within a few evenings he became quite a well
Known figure In the saloons. He pressed almost
every one ne met to leave the hustle Of the
city and become his guest the following Sum.
mer down on the plantation"
But Ben Kilpatricks brief career as
wealthy planter" was fast drawing to a close.
The picture of himself and Cassidy. taken in
the festive group at Fort Worth, was in the
hands of many detectives, and the officers soon
began to get interested in the bibulous gentle
man from Mississippi. Finally, on the night
of November 5, 1901, the planter was arrested
on suspicion of being implicated in the holdup
of the Great Northern express at Wagner four
months earlier, and the previous bank robbery
in Nevada.
In Kilpatrick's pocket was found a key to
room No. 100 at the Laclede Hotel. Room No.
100 was forthwith visited by the officers. Inside
sat Della Rose, woman with a string of aliases
a yard long This the female who had
passed as Cassidy,s wife at the hotel in Shreve~
port La. Ben fitzpatrick and Della Rose had
registered at the Laclede Hotel in St. Louis as
~. W. Ross and wife, Vicksburg. Miss"
THE detectives found in the woman's satchel
over $1,000 in $40 and $40 bills, incofn-
plete of the National Bank of Montana. She
also had in her pocketbook 5000 in $50 bills
of the same money bearing forged signatures OF
the bank officials She admitted that these
forgeries were her work. From. the Government
serial numbers on the bills all this money was
proved to be part of the loot from the Great
Northern holdup at Wagner, Mont
A week later NJ. F. 'O'Neill who had been
fireman on the train at the time of the Great
Northern robbery, came to st. Louis and posi-
lively identified Ben Fitzpatrick as the man who
climbed over the tender of the engine and
menaced the engineer and fireman with two
reyolvers George L. Nixon, cashier Of the
First National Bank at Winnimucca, Nevada,
identified the bandit as one of the gang who
went into that bank on September %, 1900.
Fitzpatrick and Della Rose both pleaded
guilty. fitzpatrick was sentenced to Is years
in the Federal Penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio,
and was later transferred to the prison IN
Atlanta, Ca. He was released for good behavior
in June. 1911, but in March of the following
year was killed attempting to rob Southern
Pacific train. Della Rose was given five years
in the penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo.
In the meantime Butch" Cassidy had re-
turned to New Mexico. Here he discovered that
an officer named George Scharbough was hot
on his trail Everywhere that Cassidy went
decided to lay . trap and kill this persistent
Shadower.
Cassidy and others accordingly went to the
vicinity Of San Simon, Ariz, where they killed
a bullock. Knowing that Scharbough would
soon be on their trail for this illegal act, they
first rode cat into the hills ami then doubled
back on their trail to lie IN wait for Schar@
bough.
In due course he came but unfortunately for
CaSsidys plans he had a friend with him.
Cassidy shot Scharbough down and would have
finished him OF then and there but for the
fact that Walter Birchfeld of Deming-the
oflcer's companion took cover
and began building a rock wall round the
wounded man. Cassidy knew and liked Birch
field and did not want to kill him, SO the
bandits withdrew.
Birchf1eld took Scharbough to Dening and
put him on train for Ell Paso where the
unfortunate officer died from his wounds
Cassidy and companion, Tom Low, left for
South America shortly afterward. and with
this flight he passes out of our story
Ezra Lay out of the game; Carver shot; Gas.
sidy q fugitive in South America; Ben Kill
patrick In prison-the BLACK Jack" gang was
shrinking fast. But, as the officers were well
aware some Of its most dangerous members
still remained to be reckoned with.
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