Martin Duke

*"Mr Green, I'd like to say that I am a more ideal man for the type of jobs you are asking and those two boys out there? Well they are more than capable."* -Martin to William Green

Martin Duke was a prominent outlaw in the glory days of criminals and outlaws where he made a name for himself as a bank robber, train robber and mercenary, Martin would eventually have a child called Emmet Duke who would join him in his robbing and other jobs. Martin was quickly killed after a botched bank robbery when he tried to run.

## Biography

### Early Life

Little is known about Martin's childhood or even that of his parents although at some point Martin told his son about his father who he referred to as a "gruff old veteran" referring to his father who served as an American soldier fighting the native tribes, the only other thing that Martin told about his early life was that he didn't really have a proper upbringing or one at all for that matter and had to fend for himself at a young age.

#### Family Troubles

During the 1850's Martin found it quite hard to make a living after his childhood of moving from one place to another, around the year of 1859 Martin would meet Emmet's mother who was a maid in the city of Bandera, the two had met in a bar where Martin was trying to find other forms of work and not to just work down at the docks. Martin told Emmet's mother he thought about going towards a life of crime seeing that it could be more profitable however Emmet's mother would convince him otherwise, the two grew to like each other and a year later would make a baby together to which he was named Emmet Duke. Within a couple of months after having Emmet, Martin was struggling not only with the loss of Emmet's mother at child birth but also with maintaining enough money for both him and his son, Martin would eventually grow tired of this stress and decided that he needed more money to which one night he would go into his boss' office and steal money from the desk however he was caught by his boss and to stop his boss telling on him Martin would strangle him to death. Martin panicked a little bit but buried his boss outside of the city to buy him and his son time to plan his next move. The time would be short lived as people starting asking questions and his boss became a missing person to which the police began their investigation, Martin left the city with his son and travelled across the county.

#### Hard work

After the problems in Bandera, Martin would stay on the road for some time with his son doing odd jobs to maintain a steady flow of income, around the year of 1879 Emmet Duke would join his father in his work acting as a second gun with him which made him much more efficient with his work. Along the way the duo would arrive in a small farm town called Jericho where Emmet and Martin had planned to rob the local bank when they would receive help from another youngster called Abraham Keller who was a year younger than Emmet. Abraham had lived in Jericho and knew a lot about the bank which allowed him to provide intel to the duo which allowed Abraham to be involved with robbing the bank itself, after the successful job the trio became quite a good group and made contacts across the county of Weirdale such as William Green.

#### Botched Bank

In the year of 1887 Martin accepted a fourth crew member called Peter Conley who also knew William Green and was hoping to join Martin's crew, Martin only accepted Peter because he trusted William unknown to both men that Peter was a federal agent undercover at the time, the four men a year later would plan out a job returning to the city of Bandera where they would hope to rob a city bank which would of been the biggest score for the trio to take yet. Peter opted the idea to distract many of the police so they could go in quickly, Martin accepted this idea and went ahead with this plan, the trio would wait eagerly outside of the bank whilst Peter was secretly setting the police up near the bank to get in and quickly either kill or arrest the trio, Martin didn't know if the distraction had happened yet or not and so just decided to go in and rob the bank. Midway through robbing the bank the trio would be called out by the police to which Martin would try to improvise, the job concluded with Abraham being arrested, Martin being killed and Emmet just managing to get away.