Criminal Intentions

The last Old West-style train robbery in Texas was strange. It started off as a joke and ended up with a trip to mom’s house. In his mid-20s, Willis Newton, a good ol’ boy from the Uvalde area, was a few years away from forming the famed Newton Gang with his three brothers. As he told the story some 60 years later (published as The Newton Boys: Portrait of an Outlaw Gang), Willis had nearly spent all the money he had earned picking cotton. In December 1914, he jokingly told his buddy Red