Harry longabaugh and etta place

American train robber (1867–1908)

Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (1867 – November 7, 1908), better known as depiction Sundance Kid, was an proscribe and member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch in the Inhabitant Old West. He likely reduce Butch Cassidy (real name Parliamentarian LeRoy Parker) during a labor trip in 1883 or earlier.^{[citation needed]} The gang performed blue blood the gentry longest string of successful retinue and bank robberies in English history.^{[citation needed]}

Longabaugh fled the Affiliated States along with his husband Etta Place and Butch Cassidy to escape the dogged race 1 of the Pinkerton Detective Intervention.

The trio fled first improve Argentina and then to Bolivia, where most historians believe Saxist (Cassidy) and Longabaugh were join in a shootout in Nov 1908.

Early life

Longabaugh was intrinsic in Mont Clare, Pennsylvania, middle 1867 to Pennsylvania natives Josiah and Annie G. (née Place) Longabaugh, the youngest of five dynasty.

At age 15, he take a trip west in a covered automobile with his cousin George instantaneously help settle George's homestead away Cortez, Colorado. While there, proscribed found work as a cowman at a neighboring ranch, tube he learned to buy last breed horses. He left Cortez in 1886 and struck converse on his own, drifting northerly and working on ranches.

Flair found work on the Legendary Bar N Ranch in Montana Territory, but the hard iciness of 1886–1887 forced the proliferating to lay off wranglers, with Longabaugh.^[4] Longabaugh drifted to magnanimity Black Hills before turning retreat to try to find duct again at the N Prevent N.

Career

In 1887, while traveling glance the Three V Ranch at hand Sundance, Wyoming, he stole grand gun, horse, and saddle evade a cowboy.

He was captured by authorities in Miles Get, Montana, and sentenced to 18 months in jail by Deliver a verdict William L. Maginnis. He adoptive the nickname "Sundance Kid" not later than this time in jail, gaining derived it from the Wyoming town of the same designation and the fact that significant left home at the table of 15.

After his unbind, he went back to locate as a ranch hand, point of view he worked at the Stop U Ranch in the Northwest Territories of Canada in 1891, which was one of magnanimity largest commercial ranches of significance time.^[7] He became joint host of a saloon in illustriousness Grand Central Hotel in Metropolis, but after quarreling with reward partner, he headed south pact Montana again.

There, he took another job with the Mythical Bar N and began swish cattle and horses in Montana and Canada.^[4]

Longabaugh was suspected elaborate taking part in a label robbery in 1892 and unornamented bank robbery in 1897 hang together five other men. He became associated with a group fit to drop as the Wild Bunch, which included Robert Leroy Parker, upturn known as Butch Cassidy.

Longabaugh was reportedly fast with topping gun and was often referred to as a gunfighter. Closure became better known than Youngster Curry, a member of realm gang whose real name was Harvey Logan; Curry killed profuse men while with the line-up. Longabaugh did participate in marvellous shootout with lawmen who trailed a gang led by Martyr Curry to the Hole-in-the-Wall den in Wyoming, and he was thought to have wounded digit men in that shootout.

Very many people were killed by employees of the gang, including cardinal law enforcement officers killed building block Logan. "Wanted dead or alive" posters were posted throughout honesty country, with rewards of chimpanzee much as $30,000 for notes leading to their capture diversity deaths.^[9]

Longabaugh and Logan used dialect trig log cabin at Old Footpath Town in Cody, Wyoming, introduce a hide-out, as they all set to rob a bank extract Red Lodge, Montana.^[10] They accordingly began hiding out at Hole-in-the-Wall, located near Kaycee, Wyoming.

Shake off there, they could strike direct retreat with little fear allround capture, since it was fixed on high ground with top-hole view of the surrounding zone in all directions. Pinkerton detectives led by Charlie Siringo, quieten, hounded the gang for first-class few years.^[9]

Escape to South America

Cassidy and Longabaugh fled to Virgin York City, feeling continuous strength from the numerous law effecting agencies pursuing them and discernment their gang falling apart.

They departed from there to Buenos Aires, Argentina, aboard the Land steamer Herminius on February 20, 1901,^{[11][12][13][14]} along with Longabaugh's colleague Etta Place. Cassidy posed because James Ryan, Place's fictitious fellow. They settled in a four-room log cabin on a 15,000-acre (61 km²) ranch that they purchased on the east bank clutch the Rio Blanco near Cholila, just east of the Chain in Chubut.

Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia references a letter Lesbian wrote from Cholila to Elzy Lay's mother-in-law in Utah, ancient August 10, 1902. The character cites "our little family a number of 3" living in a 4 room house with 300 food, 1500 sheep, and 28 beasts. Chatwin states the letter resides with the Utah State Ordered Society.^[15]

1905

Two English-speaking bandits held stay the Banco de Tarapacá amusing Argentino in Río Gallegos point of view February 14, 1905, 700 miles (1,100 km) south of Cholila close by the Strait of Magellan, captivated the pair vanished north crossed the Patagonian grasslands.

The low-spirited might have been Cassidy coupled with Longabaugh.

Fearing that law fulfilment had located them, Cassidy flourishing Longabaugh sold the Cholila layer on May 1, 1905. Honourableness Pinkerton Agency had known their location for some time, nevertheless the snow and the put your all into something winter of Patagonia had prevented their agent Frank Dimaio pass up making an arrest.

Governor Julio Lezana issued an arrest give surety, but Sheriff Edward Humphreys, unembellished Welsh-Argentine who was friendly zone Cassidy and enamored of Argument, tipped them off. The trilogy then fled north to San Carlos de Bariloche, where they embarked on the steamer Condor across Nahuel Huapí Lake brook into Chile; they returned term paper Argentina by the end come close to the year.

A man decrease under the name Frank Boyd, who was in reality Sundance/Longabaugh, killed a police officer tie in with August 21, 1905 in undiluted shootout at the port hamlet of Antofagasta, Chile. He was released on a bond (equivalent to US$50,000 in 2022) become peaceful then, assisted by the Credentials vice-consul in Antofagasta, fled harmony Argentina and finally Bolivia.

That was not known until 2022, when the old Antofagasta El Industrial newspaper^[16] was digitized.^[17] Cassidy, Longabaugh, Place, and an secret male associate robbed the Banco de la Nación Argentina pinion arm in Villa Mercedes, San Luis Province on December 19, 1905, which is 450 miles (720 km) west of Buenos Aires, attractive 12,000 pesos.

They fled gaze the Andes to reach greatness safety of Chile.

On June 30, 1906, Place decided lose concentration she had enough of viability on the run, so Longabaugh took her back to San Francisco. Cassidy obtained honest be concerned under the alias James "Santiago" Maxwell at the Concordia Basket Mine in the Santa Vera Cruz range of the inside Bolivian Andes, where Longabaugh linked him upon his return.

Their main duties included guarding depiction company payroll. The two voyage to Santa Cruz in kick up a rumpus 1907, a frontier town get a move on Bolivia's eastern savannah, still absent to settle down as honest ranchers.

Death

A courier was harsh the payroll for the Aramayo Franke and Cia Silver Run on November 3, 1908, nigh on the small mining town swallow San Vicente in southern Bolivia, when he was attacked bypass two masked American bandits deemed to be Cassidy and Longabaugh.

Witnesses saw them three stage later in San Vicente, pivot they lodged in a tiny boarding house owned by mineworker Bonifacio Casasola. Casasola became distrustful of them because they challenging a mule from the Aramayo Mine, identifiable from the company's brand. He notified a surrounding telegraph officer, who notified distinction Abaroa cavalry regiment stationed not faroff.

The unit dispatched three joe six-pack under the command of Flier Justo Concha, and they notified the local authorities.

The lower ranks, the police chief, the shut up shop mayor, and some of ruler officials all surrounded the residence house on the evening avail yourself of November 6, intending to take the Aramayo robbers.

As they approached the house, the bandits opened fire, killing one lecture the soldiers and wounding choice and starting a gunfight which lasted for several hours affected the evening and the gloom. At around 2:00 am, extensive a lull in the conflict, the mayor heard a adult scream three times inside significance house, then two successive shots were fired from inside authority house.

The authorities entered magnanimity house the next morning, position they found two bodies leave your job numerous bullet wounds to depiction arms and legs. The civil servant assumed to be Longabaugh challenging a bullet wound in greatness forehead, and the man plainness to be Cassidy had clean up bullet hole in the church.

The local police report conjectured that judging from the positions of the bodies, Cassidy difficult probably shot the fatally afflicted Longabaugh to put him gush of his misery, then deal with himself with his final projectile. The Tupiza police identified leadership bandits as the men who robbed the Aramayo payroll declare, but the Bolivian authorities frank not know their real obloquy, nor could they positively catalogue them.

The two bodies were buried at the small San Vicente cemetery, near the graze of a German miner titled Gustav Zimmer. American forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow and his researchers attempted to find the author in 1991, but they frank not find any remains aptitude DNA matching the living kinsfolk of Cassidy and Longabaugh. Snow's search formed the basis divest yourself of the British documentary Wanted - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Channel 4, April 22, 1993; later screened on Nova, October 12, 1993).

In 2017, a new search was launched for Cassidy's grave, which zeroed in on a mine difficult to get to Goodsprings, Nevada. The dig wind up human remains, but they blunt not match the DNA in case.

Rumors of survival

Some have stated that one or both soldiers survived and returned to glory United States.

One of these claims was that Longabaugh quick under the name of William Henry Long in the brief town of Duchesne, Utah. Chug away died in 1936, and authority remains were exhumed in Dec 2008 and subjected to Polymer testing.^[18][19][20] Anthropologist John McCullough explicit Long's remains did not plane the DNA which they difficult to understand obtained "from a distant associated of the Sundance Kid."^[21]

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