Volume 17 , Issue 10

100 Years Ago, 1 April 1915, Thursday

It was in The Guthrie Daily Leader, dated 1 April 1915, Thursday, with the headlines: "Starr Tells Why He Did Not Beat Back." It is concerning the outlaw bandit chief, which tells of the seamy side of the outlaw game.

From Osage, Oklahoma, April 1, 1915, a report said Herbert Wayland, one of the Starr gang, which robbed the Stroud banks, was shot near Keifer, where three of the gang were surrounded. Two escaped.

Chandler, Oklahoma April 1, 1915 -- Paul Curry;, the youth whose shot broke the leg of Henry Starr and caused his capture, following the robbery of the two Stroud banks Saturday morning, would have to wait for his $1,000 reward until Starr is convicted of the robbery of the Carney State bank, the specific deed for which the reward was offered, was the opinion in the governor's office.

The "dead or alive" feature of the governor's proclamation led many to overlook the fact that Starr had to be convicted before the reward was payable. Young Curry, immediately after Starr's capture, wired the governor that he claimed the reward.

Outlaw Estes was our to danger. Bandit Starr said, "Some people try to make a hero of me and all outlaws. Put this in the paper as a warning to all boys who have such foolish notions. It will show them the seamy side of the outlaw game. I hunted work. I worked on the section for $1 a day; I cut grass; I dug ditches; I worked in a furniture store; but every time I got a job, someone should point me out as 'the bad man from Oklahoma' and they kicked me out. I couldn't light anywhere. I couldn't 'beat back.'"
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