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THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, Oct. 4, 1911
* American Outlaw Elmer McCurdy
* "The Bandit Who Wouldn't Give Up"
* Okesa, Oklahoma train robbery debacle
The front page has a two column heading; "THREE MASKED ROBBERS HOLD UP PASSENGER TRAIN IN OKLAHOMA" with subhead. (see images) McCurdy would be killed in a shootout with police a few days later.
Complete with 10 pages, light toning, irregular along the spine, otherwise nice.
wikipedia notes: Elmer McCurdy's final robbery took place on October 4, 1911, near Okesa, Oklahoma, targeting a Katy Train which contained $400,000 in cash that intended as royalty payment to the Osage Nation. However, McCurdy and his two accomplices mistakenly stopped a passenger train instead. The men were able to steal only $46 from the mail clerk, two demijohns of whiskey, a revolver, a coat, and the conductor's watch. A newspaper account of the robbery later called it "one of the smallest in the history of train robbery" owing to the minimal amount of money stolen.
October 04, 1911
THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, Oct. 4, 1911
* American Outlaw Elmer McCurdy
* "The Bandit Who Wouldn't Give Up"
* Okesa, Oklahoma train robbery debacle
The front page has a two column heading; "THREE MASKED ROBBERS HOLD UP PASSENGER TRAIN IN OKLAHOMA" with subhead. (see images) McCurdy would be killed in a shootout with police a few days later.
Complete with 10 pages, light toning, irregular along the spine, otherwise nice.
wikipedia notes: Elmer McCurdy's final robbery took place on October 4, 1911, near Okesa, Oklahoma, targeting a Katy Train which contained $400,000 in cash that intended as royalty payment to the Osage Nation. However, McCurdy and his two accomplices mistakenly stopped a passenger train instead. The men were able to steal only $46 from the mail clerk, two demijohns of whiskey, a revolver, a coat, and the conductor's watch. A newspaper account of the robbery later called it "one of the smallest in the history of train robbery" owing to the minimal amount of money stolen.
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