The Burrow Gang’s first train robbers is a qualified success.
December 1, 1886. Jim (photo) and Rube Burrow hold up a train at Bellevue, Texas. They only get a few hundred dollars, but it’s the start of a crime campaign that will lead to a huge manhunt.
Jim is caught near Texarkana in 1888 and dies of consumption a few months later. Rube continues his spree. He is captured by a shopkeeper in Alabama in October 1890. Rube breaks out, but he and the civilian get into a gunfight. Burrow is killed and then laid out for photographs.
Related Articles
-
How common were train robberies & holding up passengers & stagecoach holdups? They were pretty…
-
The late Frank McCarthy was a member of the Cowboy Artists of America and a…
-
On the evening of April 27th, 1887 southern Arizona’s only passenger train, the Sunset Express,…
