Friday, November 03, 2006

Black Bart's last stagecoach robbery 1883

After 8 years of robbing stage coaches – but never passengers – Charles E. Bolton drops an important clue as to his identity and is captured shortly thereafter. Black Bart never shot anyone, and had a habit of leaving short poems, all signed, Black Bart, the Po-8. He was sentenced to 6 years in San Quentin, but served just over four. In actuality, he stole only $18,000.

http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=4326
http://www.blackbart.com/
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist9/blackbart.html

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