Charlie Siiringo, Famous Detective, Trailed Kid Curry
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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.