OCTOBER WAS BLACK BART'S FAVORITE: Over his eight-year-28-robbery spree, Black Bart most loved robbing stagecoaches in October. Maybe it was the balmy, California weather, maybe he was just more hungry that month, but whatever, six of his Wells Fargo robberies came in October. His least favorite months were January and April. California's “infamous stage robber” was really Charles E. Boles. He was known to never fire a shot and to leave behind poems after a couple heists. One read: “I've l
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