Evening Star Newspaper, October 26, 1930, Page 103

wember 21 ofy the.same year five trampish- °* Jooking men went into a store and purchased complete new outfits, discarding their frowsy old clothes and emerging wearing derby hats and imported broadcloth suits. They seemed to be celebrating some sudden excess of good fortune, and after donning their new finery had their pictures taken in: a group. The jolly five attracted much attention in the streets and in the various ,bar rooms. Sobering up, they apparently forgo$.all about having posed for a photograply and failed to return for the handsomely “mounted portraits they 'had ordered. & @ Ha learned these facts, F. J. Dodge thesemcrgtSeMOgmnuedwobmln one df the pictures, The five men, it was found, were members of the ubiquitous “Black Jack” gang from New Mexico. Many prints of the group photographs were immediately struck off and a copy’ was sent to nearly every important de< tective agency and police department "in the United ‘States. When the old horse traders of Sonora saw this group picture reproduced in a Devils River paper they looked at one an- other siguificantly. "For among the five men they had recognized the three rich horse buyers from Iowa. ‘These three, the authorities declared, were Will Carver, alias Will Casey, alias G. W. Pranks; Ben Kilpatrick, alias Harry Longbaugh, alias “The Sun-Dance Kid,” alias Harry Alenzo, and Harvey Logan, with aliases enough to sourid like ‘& company roll-call. The re- maining two men were “Butch” Cassidy and a notorious criminal known as Ole Hobek. - Immediately after Sheriff Thornton’s murder three men were seen on several occasions at a distance by cowboys in the T Half-Circle pasture, but the strangers always veered off, allowing no one to come near them. A quarter of beef was later stolen from the T Half-Circle ranch and the cow hands trailed the thieves in'g a dense live oak thicket far out in the pasture. Here in & &mall clearing they found a recently deserted camp. There stood the famous rubber-tired buggy; there lay many of the smart clothes worn by the members of the “Rubber-tire Outfit,” the garments now badly tattered from their wear- ers’ exertions in dodging through the wilds of two counties. In & flashy old silk shirt the searchers discovered a pair of elegant cuff buttons, specially identified as belonging to the tall, handsome Ben Kilpatrick. The gang had apparently discarded their “Iowa horse-buyer” ccs.umes for more substantial regalia. Vastly interested, the T Half-Circle men fol- Jowed the gang’s further movements. The fugitives had presently been joined by a fourth man. The tracks were those of four riders and one pack animal, all heading toward Sonora. Sheriff Briant of Sonora was given the infor- mation over the ‘phone. Around 8 p.m. that evening Carver and George Kilpatrick, brother of Ben, came riding into Sonora. At a Mexican store on the out- skirts of the town they endeavored to buy oats dise for their horses, and failing in this they tried at Beckett's livery stable, only to be again They next entered Jack Owens’ Scon two ponies stood tied at the hitch-rack The men made the bad mistake of leaving no ‘guard over their mounts to give the alarm in case of trouble. 'I’EE officers held a hurried consultation and ! _finally decided to go into the bakery rather than wait for the two men to emerge. Deputy Henry S8harp was posted at the side door, while Sheriff Briant, Deputy J. L. Davis and Cons . stable Thomason stepped noiselessly upon the little front porch. They drew their pistols. Briant stepped inside the open front door and turned to the left. David and Thomason fol- lowed. Will Carver, wearing two ivory-handled six-shooters in his belt, was at the counter fill- ing a sack with oats. “Throw up your hands!” cried the sheriff. Instantly Carver grabbed for a pistol, while Kilpatrick made a fumbling motion with his - hand preparatory to drawing a six-shooter. Just as Carver’s gun flashed out Briant fired and the bullet broke the bandit’s right arm and entered his body. His revolver clattered to the floor and Carver fell, his weapon slithering across the room out of his reach. Carver was a “two-gun” man. Somewhat dazed, no doubt, by the pain of his wounds, he did not attempt to draw his second pistol, but crawled toward the one he had dropped. Deputy 8Sharp, however, darted forward and kicked the weapon away. While this was going on Kilpatrick was put- ting up a good fight. There was a ceascless fusillade of shoots and the place became full of smoke. The battle continued till the officers had emptied their revolvers and Kilpatrick was also down, Carver, it was discovered, had been hit seven times, and he died three hours later. George Kilpatrick recovered from five wounds and was relcaced, as nothing could be proved against him. It was his brother Ben, and not George, who was a member of the gang. Ben Kilpatrick and Harvey Logan were reported to have been seen on the outskirts of the town, but fled directly the shooting started. Logan and Ben, now joined by “Butch” Cassidy, were next heard of in New Mexico, still heading north. Three months later, on July 3, 1901, the Great Northern express was held up and robbed at Wagner, Mont. This time the bandits secured $47.000 in incomplete new banknotes destined for the National Bank of Montana and the American National Bank, both of Helena, Mont. ‘The notes were in tens and twenties and were not legal currency, as they had not yet been signed by the bank officials. Soon after this “Butch” Cassidy turned up in Xouisiana. Cassidy and “wife” registered at & hotel in Shreveport. Four detectives entered the hotel lobby from different directions to arrest Cassidy. Without the slightest hesita- . THE. SUNDAY - STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 26, 1930. The prisoner was placed on his horse. The little procession set out for Carlsbad. tion the bandit drew two pistols, shot, his way out of the puilding and got clear away. Three of the detectives were killed, the fourth was wounded. After Cassidy’s flight “Mrs. Cassidy” bought & ticket for St. Louis, Mo., and checked Cas- sidy’s trunk to the same place. Here the trunk was seized by officers and broken open. They found inside several thousand dollars in un- signed bank notes. The woman was arrested, but she stoutly gsserted that the baggage was her husband’s and that she had no knowledge 7 mckz'ngbvwnMen W ho Leave Home “THERE are, of course, other reasons why men vanish besides the two outstanding ones—women and business worries. “Sometimes it is illness. When a man removes the labels from his clothes and all other identifying marks, it looks sinister. When we are looking around his home for clues and we find these labels in waste baskets, it doen't look so hope- ful. It turns one's thoughts to dark waters and clothes which tell no helpful tales, “Sometiries it js somebody else’s illness—or imagined Blness—which drives a man to vanish from his Pome. “One day a woman visited my office and told me that her husband had disappeared several weeks before, and she had not heard from him since. Neither had any one else. She implored me to find him and return him to her. “When we started out to find the missing husband’s ‘double,’ we discovered that he had been a very successful promotion manager until Western city and brought him back East. When I talked with him he told me that his wife was neurctie, . constantly complaining about her health and demanding from him almost con- tinuous attention. She had an extremely pos- sessive attitude toward him. This insistence on her part that he dance constant attendance upon her had Injured his business intefests, “He could not properly take care of his job and nurse and coddle her, too. Besides, he had become discouraged. He no longer had confi- dence in his own ability. ‘“His old job was gone and he had tried un- successfully to land another. Continued failure in this respect had at last broken him and he had simply vanished. He had boarded a train and traveled westward away from the scene of his troubles. “Then I sent for his wife and told her: “‘You've got your husband back now, but it’s up to you to keep him with you. Stop com- plaining about your health. There’s nothing the matter with you. Take care of your work and let your husband take care of his. Don't demand his constant companionship. His job is important, since that's what pays the rent and buys food.’ = “Ccmmon sense! That's what so many peo- ple need and haven't got. A fundamental lack of it is behind many of these disappearances.” (Copyright, 1930.) Renewing Parched Lazons. Fall is the best time of year for the home owner to undertake the work of im- proving his lawn. Those which suffered from the Summer drought can well stand renewal at this time. For persons desiring to begin at the bottom, the lawns should be plowed up, leveled off and rolled. After rolling, the top inch and a half should be loosened with a rake and bone meal worked in at the rate of 50 pounds a thousand square feet. After this has been done, the ground should be rolled again before the seed is planted. An ideal seed for the average home owner, who likes a velvety sod and one that does not require too great attention, is composed of 80 per cent Kentucky blue grass and 20 per cent red top. This mixtures gives a rapid-growing, sturdy grass, which will crowd out weeds and crab grass, if it is given a fair start in the Fall and an early start in Spring. When the soil is neutral, it is best to treat the grass with ammonium sulphate at the rate of 4 pounds a thousand square feet at the time of planting, and repeat in the Spring. The seed should be spread on at the rate of 5 to 7 pounds a thousand square feet, and raked lightly into the soil. Immediately after applying the ammonium sulphate, the ground should be sprinkled, in order to dissolve the acid. The surest way to obtain an even tribu- tion -of the seed and the bone meal is mark off the lawn in squares, perhaps 10 feet by 10 Teet, and sow each section completely be- fore passing on to the next. One tenth of the amount of seed or bone meal required for the 1,000 square feet would, of course, be used on the 10-foot square. * Where old lawns are to be renewed, it is well to rake rather hard before applying the seed, in order that it may find its way better to the soil. ; 21 . to its contents, The officers could not preve contrary anfl she was accordingly released. 2 this time Ben Kilpatrick arrived i ; and engaged in a ‘series of drumken This time, instead of b2ing a horse posed as a planter from Mississippi. evenings he became quite a well figure in the saloons. He pressed almost every one he met to leave the bustle of the city and become his guest the following Sum- mer “down en the plantation.” But Ben Kilpatrick's brizf career as & * “wealipy 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 sovn began to get interested in the bibulous gentle- man from Mississippi. Finally, 6n the night of November 5, 1801, 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, a woman with a string of aliases a yard long. This was the female who had passed as Casridy’s wife at the hotel in Shrevee port, La. Ben Kilpatrick and Della Rose had registered at the Laclede Hotel in St. Louis as “J. W. Ross and wife, Vicksburg, Miss.” ¥ THe detectives found in the woman's satchel over $6,000 in $10 and $20 bills, income plete, of the National Bank of Montana. She also had in her pocketbook $600 in $20 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 loct from the Great Northern holdup at Wagner, Mont, A week later M. F. -O'Neill, who had been fireman on the train at the time of the Great Northern robbery, came to St. Louis and posie tively identified Ben Kilpatrick as the man who climbed over the tender of the engine and menaced the engineer and fireman with two revolvers. 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 29, 1900. Kilpatrick and Della Rose both pleaded guilty. - Kilpatrick was sentenced to 15 years in the Pederal Penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, . and was later transferred to the prison in Atlanta, Ga. He was released for good bekavior in June, 1911, but in March of the following year was killed attempting to rob a Southern Pacific train. Della Rose was given five years in the penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo. 4 In the meantime “Butch” Cassidy had ree out into the hills and then doubled lie in wait for Sclurf In due course he came, but unfortunately fof ‘plans he had a friend with him, ssidy shot Scharbough down and would have finished him off then and there but for the fact that Walter Birchfield of Deming—the officer’s companion—immediately took cover and began building a rock wall 'round the mrclmeldwokadnrboughwbemfi'mé put him on a train for E! Paso, where the unfortunate officer died from his wounds, this flight he passes out of our story. Ezra Lay out of the game; Carver shot; cu- sidy a fugitive In South America; Ben Kile patrick In prison—the “Black Jack” gang was < shrinking fast. But, as the officers were well s aware, some of its most dangerous members still remained to be reckoned with. (Copyrieht, 1930.) (To Be Concluded in The Star’s Magazine Next Sunday.) IWorms Carefully Poisoned. ‘ I'l.' is easy enough to poison the Fall army worn. The difficulty is not to poison anyw thing elte at the same time. This pest is bee ginning to make its unwelcome presence known in the District of ‘Columbia, and many lawns have suffered as a result. The usual method of poisoning the worm is by spreading poison baits in which paris green or white arsenie is mixed with bran, w With such a highly potent poison it is vital that i§ be kept in some place where neither children nor pets may have access to it. It is against the law in the District to spread poisons along the public highways and parkings or on that part of the front lawn on the street side of the building line, In spreading the baits it is essential that all lumps be broken up and that the mixture be put on lightly, not more than eight ounces to & plot of grass 40 by 40 feet. Sugar Production Off. i Tflx sugar industry seems to have gottenr -ahead of itself somewhat, for the produe« tion in 1929 showed a decrease of more than 15 per cent over the 1927 output.. Altogethey $507,000,000 worth of sugar and sugar products were refined at the 21 plants in this country, & figure which was approximately $90,000,000 be= low the 1927 total. The only products to show an increase werd brown sugars, which were up 60 per cent, and blackstrap astl sirups, which were up @ per cent. il -