Missouri Outlaw History (Kansas City, St. Louis, Columbia: managers, desert, change)

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The Holt County Sentinel (Oregon, Mo) December 27, 1867 Pg2

There never has been a time when there has been so much counterfeit money afloat as at the present time. A new spurious $10 bill, on the National Bank of Commerce, has been put in circulation. Counterfeit $2 and $5 bills on various banks are very plenty, and bogus 25 cent paper is more common than the genuine.




The St. Louis Republic April 24, 1901 Pg7

Brass thieves stripped the engines at the Watson quarries, above the city, of their brass fittings. Within the last year a number of robberies of that nature have occurred in plants situated along the river front, the thieves making away with their plunder by means of skiffs.

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The Rich Hill Tribune June 1, 1905 Pg4

STREET FAIR NIGHTMARES

The Chillicothe street fair was a financial success, but Mayor Hirsh says no more street fairs. The fair drew a mob of toughs and nights were made hideous.





The St. Joseph Observer December 30, 1922

PREACHER ROPER GOT ROPED UP

George L. Roper, who for three years was pastor of the Church of the Nazarene at Eleventh and Pacific streets in this city and for seventeen years had followed that profession, is now in the Iowa state pen serving out an indeterminate sentence of forty years for cracking a safe in Des Moines and stealing $49 from it. He was caught red handed.

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The Marble Hill Press August 3, 1911 Pg2

EFFORT TO WRECK TRAIN

Springfield.--- A bolt placed on the track with the evident intention of wrecking the northbound passenger train on the Kansas City, Clinton & Springfield railway nearly derailed a special train carrying members of the board of railroad and warehouse commissioners and railroad officials in the vicinity of Gerster, 60 miles north of here.





Lafayette County November 18, 1874

Dr. Jacob Wilborn Jr. shot and killed a saloonkeeper named Milan while drunk. Ten days prior, Wilborn shot Groves Young, captain of the vigilantes in Aullville.

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The University Missourian (Columbia) January 20, 1913

MUST LIKE TO ROB THIS STORE

For the second time within a month, the grocery store of T.M. Hulen at 200 North Tenth street was robbed last night. The burglars entered through a side window. The glass was broken and the lock on the inside turned.
About $3 in nickels and dimes was taken from the cash register. None of the goods in stock was taken.





The University Missourian (Columbia) January 20, 1913

THIEF WITH WEAK EYES

A thief with weak eyes, a large correspondence and an ear for music, judging from what he took away with him, stole a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles, $2 in stamps, a book of vocal studies and a silver mesh bag, containing $2, from coats in the front hall at the residence of Mrs. J.L. Wilcox at 1012 Walnut street Saturday night. The household was at supper at the time.

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Sedalia Weekly Bazoo May 3, 1884 Pg5

SKIPS THE TOWN

Some time during the night of Thursday or probably Friday morning the hero of this, Henry W. Ostrander, jumped the town and left behind him a cloud of unpaid bills as far as he was able to go in debt. It is thought by the people in the neighborhood that he has gone to Kansas City.





The Butler Weekly Times March 23, 1905 Pg2

GIRL WHO KILLED SWEETHEART FREED

Carthage, Mo., Mar 21.-- Miss Pearl Skyles, the young woman who shot and killed her sweetheart, James H. Rainwater, on November 6, because of unfaithfulness, was acquitted by the jury in the Circuit Court here today after the twelve men had been out almost twelve hours.

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The Ripley County Democrat (Doniphan, Mo) November 16, 1906 Pg4



Robbers blew open the safe of the Parma post-office and escaped into the swamps near town. They got $322.



A Kansas City man was arrested last week and fined $25 for winking at a girl on the street. One by one the liberty and privileges of men are being cut off.



Charles Evans, W.T. Brown and Clarence Duvall have been arrested on a charge of mutilating the McDonald county land records. The suspected parties are engaged in the abstract business.



Charles W. Cooke was arrested at Whiting one day last week. He is wanted at Fredericktown for the alleged embezzlement of $132 from a Chicago picture concern.

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St. Louis Republic August 10, 1903 Pg7


NELLIE HOGAN CHARGED WITH SHOPLIFTING

Two detectives, the manager of a clothing store and half a hundred curious pedestrians, attracted by the excitement, chased a young woman four blocks Saturday night before capturing her.
The woman, who gives her name as Nellie Hogan and her residence as No. 4732 West Pine boulevard, is charged with the theft of a lady's shirt waist, a pair of baby's shoes and a necktie, which, it is alleged, she took from a downtown department store.




St. Louis Republic August 10, 1903 Pg7

CITY MARSHAL ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF MURDER

Brunswick, Mo., Aug 9.--- City Marshal Vince Coleman of Dalton shot and killed Rufus Cox late last night, at Dalton. Cox was shot three times in the chest, one bullet passing through the left lung and another entering the heart.
Cox was selling fish in the street when Coleman came along and ordered him to take his box of fish off the sidewalk. A few words were exchanged and a fight ensued. Coleman pulled his pistol and shot at Cox four times. Coleman was arrested and lodged in jail at Keytesville.

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The Potosi Journal September 4, 1895 Pg2


George Doerr, employed in a rolling mill at St. Louis, shot Mrs. Adeline Zintel, his boarding house keeper, the other day and then killed himself. The woman would recover.
The trouble arose over his refusal to pay board, he being of a very quarrelsome nature. Doerr has a family in Germany. He has been in this country 16 years.



The Potosi Journal September 4, 1895 Pg2


Dr. George W. Fraker, of Kansas City, Mo., who planned one of the most gigantic and successful insurance swindles of modern times, was captured two days ago in the woods of northern Minnesota, near Dover, where he was living under the alias of Schnell. He admitted his identity and will return to Missouri without requisition.





On August 8, 1903, Lindsey Pitts, colored, slashed and stabbed four persons at a dance near Armstrong, Mo., because his girlfriend began dancing with another man.

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The Chariton Courier July 10, 1885 Pg3



John Shultz shot and mortally wounded William Simmons at Weston on the 7th. It was caused by family trouble. Shultz was an uncle to Simmons.



William McDonald, Jr., shot and killed John L. Gray at Lisbonville, in Caldwell county last Tuesday. An old grudge is said to have caused the difficulty. The murderer is still at large.



In the case of the State vs Samuel Collins for the killing of Owen Utterbeck, tried in Pike county some time since, defendant was sentenced to death under a verdict of murder in the first degree. Collins will be hung at Bowling Green July 29.

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The Laclede Blade August 22, 1913 Pg2

MYSTERY OF RICH FARMER'S DEATH

Springfield.---Mystery is forming about the cause of death of James C. Hammond, a wealthy farmer of Cedar county, who was found dead in his home by his daughter, Mrs. Newton Hudson. The body contained two bullets and it was at first thought that Hammonds had ended his own life. An inquest was held and testimony tended to show that the wounds could not have been self-inflicted.





The Laclede Blade August 22, 1913 Pg2

KILLS CUSTOMER IN A ROW

Keytesville.--- John Barnes, a merchant, shot and killed Louis Daniels, a farmer and preacher, at the former's store. A controversy arose over Daniels' store account and the merchant retreated, followed by Daniels, who was brandishing a hatchet. Securing his revolver, Barnes shot Daniels as he advanced with the hatchet. Barnes went to Brunswick and surrendered to the sheriff.