THE SANDERS COUNTY LEDGER. CHARLIE SIIRINGO, FAMOUS DETECTIVE, TRAILED KID CURRY AND 114111S GANG FROM LITTLE ROCKIES IIN MONTANA TO MEXICAN LEINE in their old stamping grounds, se- In Santa Fe, New Mexico, there is The Union Pacific holdup referred curing a large sum in new living at the age of 63, blind and to by Siringo in his story took place unsigned U. S. government bills, and broken in health from years of ex- In 1899, and he connects Kid Curry I found that Curry had been in WOMEN CAN HELP posure spent in the saddle and in un- with it. This was tyro -years before Rawlins, Wyoming, afterward, dergoing constant dangers and hard- Curry and his gang held up the Great where he met Jack R. Jim H. of ships, Charlie Siringo, for a quarter Northern train at Wagner, near Mal- and the Twenty- mile ranch. My agency was em- WAR SERVICE of a century one of the most noted de- ta, Montana. IN ployed to run down the gang tectives in the west, whose repute- Continuing his narrative. Siringo again, and of course all the tioa as an operative of a world-fa- says: "Bayles had found out that the ipformation se- RECONSTRUCTION AIDES NEED- made him Curry cured by me wag used in tracing the ED FOR CONVALESCENTS IN mous detective agency right names of Kid ind Loney robbers. dreaded by criminals in the Rocky were Harvey and Loney Logan, and MANY HOSPITALS "Finally, during the fall, mountain country from the Canadian that they were born and raised in Kilpat- rick, who was with Kid Curry when line to Mexico. Charlie Siringo was Dodson, Mo., near Kansas City, and Branch of Service Designed to Help I trailed him into the Blue moun- an important figure in bringing to that for years they had been making Soldiers Recovering From Wounds tains, and who helped in the justice the leaders in the bloody their headquarters in the Little Tipton and inure.; Successful Applicants train holdup, was arrested in Coeur d'Alene labor riots. At one Rockies, a small range of mountains St. Must Pass Physical and Mental Ex- Louis with Kid Curry's time he joined the Miners' union at 60 miles east of Harlem, where Bob sweetheart. amination. Kid Curry and one of his Gem, Idaho, and had himself elected and Loney had owned the saloon. chums made their getaway, and secretary of the union. Later his Therefore I was instructed to meet Curry came dir- Montana women, who have been ect to Rawlins to dig up evidence convicted 18 of the union Sayles in Helena, and then buy a some of the unable to get into other branches of stolen Great Northern leaders of murder and dynamiting saddle horse at some point and ride money which active war service can find a new he had cached on the Twenty property. into the Little Rockies and get in -mile field open in the work of "reconstruc- ranch. He wanted the money Siringo, who was noted for his with the friends of the Logan bro- to hire tion aides." "Reconstruction aides" lawyers to defend his sweetheart, cool nerve and absolute fearlessness thers. are women who furnish forms of oc- who had been arrested for passing under all circumstances, was often cupation for convalescent soldiers. "So finally, with several hundred stolen bills at St. Louis. on the trail of desperadoes, bank rob- The job requires that you be able to dollars in my pocket, I started for "Curry only remained in the bers and train holdups in Wyoming, vicin- keep the convalescent's mind and Helena. It was thought best for me ity of Rawlins two days, and Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico, then fingers busy as he recuperates, and to outfit in Great Falls and ride boarded a train for the east. I didn't but interest in him in Montana cen- successful candidates must know about 250 miles across the bad lands know of his being there trail two ters in the story of his efforts to something about basketry, weaving, to Landusky, the small cattle town days after he had left. Then two the noted "Kid" Curry dead or wood carving, block printing, knit- take in the Little Rockies. I boarded a men there told me about it. One and to break up the Curry of ting and needlework. There are alive train for Great Falls, where I bought them told me how Curry had which a quarter of a century seen other requirements too, but those gang, a broncho mare and started east for me in a saloon one evening when he ago was notorious the country over who enter this service are going to Lewistown, about three days' ride. was watching the crowd through a for the exploits of its members in In Lewistown a severe blizzard was be able to do a whole lot toward mak- rear door. He singled me out as a ing the soldier who is slowly mend- raging, it being about the latter part suspect, saying I looked too bright of February. I waited two days for ing from wounds or illness a whole and wide-awake for a common round- lot happier. Women desirous of en- it to moderate, but it seemed to er. One of his companions convinc- grow worse. Therefore I started one tering this work can report to Lieut. ed him that I was right, but he took A. B. Eckerdt at Helena, who Is in morning when the thermometer re- no chances of getting acquainted. FAMOUS Curry Gang, Which Operated from the charge of enlistments. Successful ap- gistered about 20 below zero, and Kid Curry, Leader of the "But Kid Curry ran Montana to the Mexican border, Holding up Trains up against a plicants will be sent to Teachers Col- with the wind blowing a gale. The Little Rockies in live issue in After His Last Exploit In Holding Up the Knoxville, Tenn., where lege, Columbia University, New people at the hotel advised me not and _Robbing Banks; Curry, he was arrested Wagner, Montana, Was Captured at Knox- after shooting two York; Franklin Union, Boston, or. to start. Great Northern Train at officers. He Sentenced to Serve a Collective Term of 180 finally had a trial in some other point for training. "My route lay over a flat country ville, Tenursee, and the federal court for passing Never Was Recaptured and Is Generally Be- money Ages and Weights north to Rocky Point on the Missouri Years. He broke Jail, stolen in the Great America. He Was Called the Most Daring and ,Northern hold- Applicants must be at least 25 river, a distance of about 80 miles, lieved to be in South up. He was convicted on several Resourceful Bad Man of His Time, but in Spite of His Record Had years old, citizens of the United and only one ranch on the route, counts and was sentenced to the pen States or Many Influential Friends. citizens or subjects of one which I aimed to reach before night. for a total of 130 years. of the countries allied with the Uni- for After traveling against the wind "During the trial I was told that ted States against Germany. Physi- longer. 15 miles I could stand it no prove an alibi for Bob. I got ac- her that my partner was to be exe- my friend, the stockman from the cal examination will determine the hardly be kept head- My mare could quainted with him and learned all cuted for a crime we had both com- Little Rockies, was on hand with a fitness of the applicant. Applicants could see ed toward the blizzard. I his secrets. Bob was sent to the mitted in Old Mexico, and that I supply of the long green. The result must not be less than 60 inches nor east where of the mountains off to the penitentiary." feared he would confess and give me was that Kid Curry made his getaway more than 70 inches in height and of I had been told the mining camp away. In Harlem my horse and sad- from the high sheriff before reach- weigh not less than 100 nor more for there Gets Inside History Gilt Edge was situated, so dle were sold and I boarded a train ing the penitentiary walls and the than 195 pounds. The applicant will caring to return to at Landusky, Sir- for I headed, not During his stay Denver. In Mexico I soon found supposition is that the aforesaid long not be eligible for appointment as a Lewistown. I reached the camp ingo, as related by him above, got the we were on the wrong trail, and soon green and the stockman were the friends of reconstruction aide unless she shall four hours after dark, half frozen, confidence of the closest after this "Flat Nose" Curry was lifting powers which placed the Kid have had a high of other school education or but after I had gotten on the outside Kid Curry and of friends killed in Utah while trying to resist on the smooth road to freedom. . its equivalent. They Having punch- must have a of a porterhouse steak I began to members of the gang. capture. "The sheriff was arrested for lib- theoretical knowledge of at least obtain- was right at feel better. Next morning I ed cows for years he "Returning to Denver I got the erating the Kid, and it was said that three of the following crafts: the "Red and showed ed a sketch of the route to home on the roundup particulars of a recent train robbery he received the sum of $8,000 for What They Must Know ranch on the south border of roping steers and being Barn" plenty of skill in on the Union Pacific at Tipton, Wyo. asleep at the proper time. I Basketry, weaving (hand and bead hard ride brought suspected him of the bad lands. A horses. No one Assistant Superintendent Goddil of never heard how this honorable offi- looms, including simple forms of I found a crowd man. In par- me there, where being a secret service our detective force had investigated cial got out of the scrape. rugs and mat making); simple wood of cowboys waiting for the weather cultivated the acquaintance "Kilpatrick got a sentence of Charlie Siringo, the Cowboy Detect, ticular he this robbery and decided that Bid 15 carving; block printing (paper and to moderate. It was 30 miles' to confidence of a certain stock- years in the pen, and Kid We, Who Covered 25,000 Miles in and Curry, Bill Cruzan and a man who Curry's textiles); knitting; needlework. Rocky Point and I decided to lay vicinity who was a close sweetheart got a long term, Four Years Trailing Kid Curry and man in the might be Harry Longbough did the too. Applicants must be prepared to over there. I did so, and while wait- friend of Curry and who used to job. The stockman at Landusky had Early in the spring another of the His Gang. frequent- give a practical demonstration of ing I gained some information about correspond with the outlay told me that Curry was planning such bunch, Bill Carver, was killed in Tex- their Chinook, technique in hand craft before the Kid Curry gang. Loney Curry ly through the postoffice at a job, and I concluded that he knew as while trying to escape arrest. a addressed judge assigned by the °Mee of the holding up trains. In his autobio- had stopped here before and after as Siringo learned. Mail what he was talking about.'' "During the four years I had been surgeon general. of the Silcox, Wyoming, train robbery posted at Harlem trailing graphy, published under the name by this man and Siringo then got the tip that Kid them the 'wild bunch' had Pay for Service describes on the Union Pacific. by government detec- become pretty "A Cowboy Detective," he was watched Curry had been seen near Grand well scattered. The The pay of the reconstruction aide chase for months stockman, who since has only two really every move of his "I arrived at Rocky Point on the tives. This Junction, Colorado, and he was soon bad ones who escap- is $50 a month while on duty in the, Kid Curry and his accom- three Montana, showed a very bitter ed, besides after south bank of the Big Muddy left on the trail with a pack horse and Kid Curry, were 'Butch' United States; $60 a month when o known as the "wild bunch." reaching against the big detective Casiday and plices, hours after dark. Before spirit saddle horse. On reaching Paradox Harry Longbough, the duty outside the limits of the Unite Story of Curry killing of Loney Curry latter once the Little Rockies I learned that agency for the valley, the home of the notorious famous as the 'Sundance States. Suitable quarters will In trailing ,jhe Curry gang and Curry, had sending of Bob Lee, alias Kid' of Harvey Logan, slim Kid and the Young boys, he found that Curry and northern Wyoming." provided for the use of the for their accompliala of the "wild bunch" ranch with the penitentiary. Lee had a half interest in a horse Curry, to another man had passed the place a when on duty in hospitals and an Siringo spent four years and travel- about at Cripple Creek, Col- one Jim T.; that they owned been captured week before. Following a hot trail sanitary formation, or when not miles, and whpe he gath- rang- and,sent to the peni- A Tin Can Contest ed 25,000 500 head .of good horses which orado, convicted he reached the Blue mountains of available, commulation for quarter, valuable information and luck years. This stockman A theater proprietor of Bozeman ered much ed in the Little Rockies. As tentiary for 10 Utah and found that the outlaws were and rations will be allowed. Thet aided in bringing some Landusky Curry would soon admitted children free to his theater evidence and would have it on reaching declared that Kid only a day ahead of him. He also may be granted leave of absences 30 the members of the gang to jus- Jim T. the Union Pacific Rail- for one performance providing they of I made the acquaintance of get even with learned that the two train rotators days with pay for each calendar year'. found Kid Curry baffling and riding by for the killing of Loney brought a tin can for each year of tice, he through an accident. In way company were broke, as they had failed to get and he declared him to be a another train. Siringo their lives. Otter prizes were offer- elusive a saloon in front of which was by robbing any money from their last holdup at most desperate and most was told by this ed by this enterprising man and as A husband snorts around and in- the keenest, crowd of rough looking men, my alleges that be Tipton. Siringo followed his quarry of all the bad men he was at the time a result Bozeman is frhe of tin cans slats on having his own way. But h resourceful mare shied and I spurred her in the stockman that Curry to the Colorado river, where be lost come in contact with in his ex- and my preparations for a job of that wife merely has her way and say' had flank. She began bucking making the trail In the bad lands. His neat perience. It was not till the mem- scab- nothing about it. old Colts 46 flew out of the kind. work was to make the acquaintance Dynamite Plot Foiled bers of the gang had been killed, cap- in the street. describing his experiences at bard, striking a rock After of a number of accomplices of the Four sticks of tured or scattered that Siringo was bucking, Jim says: dynamite, thirty When a girl gets to be about 26 When the mare quit Landusky. Siringo Curry gang, who gave him all the feet of coiled called off the chase. the pistol. This meant found out many secrets of copper wire and deton- and is getting a little shop worn fro T. gave me "I had details of the Silcox and Tip:on train ating caps were In his travels on Curry's trail, Sir- crowd, apd I became there. I knew that "Flat discovered buried un- trying to land a husband she can te • a treat for the past crimes robberies. He got practically all der the big steel ingo at one time came to Helena, partner of Kid Curry (who was not re- wireless tower at you that if she were a man eh acquainted with the Nose" George the secrets of the gang and learned Fort Bliss, went to Great Falls, where he Loney Curry) was Texas. An officer dis- wouldn't let a snippy thing of 1 then Curry. lated to Kid and how they had a system of blind post- covered the outfitted with a saddle horse and robbers of the Silcox, dynamite but no arrests fool her the way the snippy thin "In Landusky I played myself off one of the offices all the way from the Hole-in- have been across country to the Little holdup, and that this made. fools other men. rode for an Old Mexico outlaw and be- Wyoming, train the-Wall in Northern Wyoming to mountains, where he spent was with a tough Rocky came solid with the worst people of "Flat Nose" Curry Alma in Southern New Mexico, these months in the vicinity of Henry Smith some- several the community. I had adopted the character named postotfices being in rocky crevices or Landusky, learning the entire his- northwestern part of name of Charles L. Carter. where in the on top of round mounds of dirt on tory of the Curry boys and their ac- Chihulvr,i in Old Mex- "I learned that Kid Curry had the state of the desert. In passing these post- When the Spring Time complices. This phase of his story Therefore I r ved orders to Comes a Lammin' Along killed old Pike Landusky, for whom ico. offices members of the "wild bunch" is an interesting one. He tells It United 43tates arshal Joe La- By John B. Hitch, Lewistown.) town was named, a few years meet would look for mail and deposit as follows: the Cheyenne at Denver and go before, which started the Kid on the Fors of notes of importance. Also late news "In Denver I was informed by As- Old Mexico in search of as a genuine desperado. Pike with him to of interest would be clipped from When the spring time comes• lammin• along so powerful and sistant Superintendent Curran, who road Nose." nice Landusky's widow, Julia, still resid- "Flat newspapers and deposited in the green. bad charge of the Union Pacific rail- Curry Rills Winters investigation, that ed on their ranch two miles out of "poetoffice" by passing members of And you're mopin' round some gloomy place, sorter holdin` down your way train holdup had decided that Kid Curry detective) had town. One of her daughters was "We the gang. spleen, W. 0. Sayles (another wouldateer clear of the'Little Rock- and the sweetheart of Loney Curry and I The story of Kid Curry's capture is When your liver quite a workin' till your tired digestive plan run into a brother, Loney Curry, where every one knew him, but the noted out- got a lot of information about him ies, told by Siringo as follows: Turns you yeller like a punkin that's been growed in sandy lan'; a cousin, Bob Curry, of this we were mistaken, for not Harlem. Montana; from her. In trying to capture Loney in When you're crosser than a woman that's• Burgin' sickly twins, law Kid Curry, in long after I left he slipped back and "During the summer Kid Curry Bob owned a saloon Curry at Dodson, Missouri, where he Or a gambler that's been losin' and's a thinkin` of his sins, that Loney and killed Ranchman Winters, who had and his gang robbed a Great North- sent some of the was in hiding with his aunt, Mrs. Then's the very time to change the clime, and quit that doleful scene, at Harlem and had killed Johnny Curry in self protec- ern train at Wagner, Montana, back stolen in the Union Lee, officials of my detective agency When the spring time comes a lammin' along so powerful 'doe and unsigned bills tion. Winters was a prosperous at Silcox. Wyoming, shot him through the head and kill- green. Pacific holdup stock raiser, and be told me that he cashed. In this,way they ed him. 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