Rube Burrow, king of outlaws, and his band of train robbers : $b An accurate and faithful history of their exploits and adventuresAgee, George W. (George Washington)
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Rube Burrow, king of outlaws, and his band of train robbers : $b An accurate and faithful history of their exploits and adventures
Agee, George W. (George Washington)
Burrow, Rube, 1854-1890
Rube Leaves Lamar County, Alabama--His Early Life in the Lone
Star State--His Brother Jim Joins Him--The Bellevue, Gordon
and Ben Brook, Texas, Train Robberies 8
CHAPTER III.
The Genoa, Ark., Robbery, December 9, 1887--Arrest of William
Brock--His Confession 19
CHAPTER IV.
The Pinkertons After Rube and Jim Burrow in Lamar County--Their
Narrow Escape 27
CHAPTER V.
Rube and Jim Board an L. & N. Railway Train at Brock’s
Gap--Their Arrest and the Subsequent Escape of Rube 31
CHAPTER VI.
Rube Burrow Returns to Lamar County--Joe Jackson Joins Him in
March, 1888--Their Trip into Baldwin County, Alabama 38
CHAPTER VII.
The Ride into Arkansas to Liberate Jim Burrow--Failure and
Return to Mississippi 42
CHAPTER VIII.
Rube Burrow and Joe Jackson Leave Arkansas--They Turn up as
Cotton Pickers in Tate County, Mississippi 45
CHAPTER IX.
Jim Burrow Arraigned--Trial Postponed--His Return to Little
Rock Prison--Letters Home--His Death in Prison 49
CHAPTER X.
The Duck Hill, Miss., Robbery--The Killing of Passenger Chester
Hughes 52
CHAPTER XI.
The Cold-blooded Murder of Moses Graves, the Postmaster of
Jewell, Alabama 61
CHAPTER XII.
Smith Joins Rube Burrow and Joe Jackson--The Buckatunna Robbery 68
CHAPTER XIII.
The Capture of Rube Smith and James McClung at Amory, Miss.--
McClung’s Confession--A Plan to Rob the Train Falls
Through--A Safe Robbery Nipped in the Bud 82
CHAPTER XIV.
A False Alarm--The Ox-cart Trip to Florida--The Separation--
Rube Located at Broxton Ferry--His Escape 91
CHAPTER XV.
Capture of Joe Jackson 104
CHAPTER XVI.
Confession of Leonard Calvert Brock, _alias_ Joe Jackson, made
at Memphis, Tenn., July 19, 1890, and Corrected and Amended
at Jackson, Miss., October 16, 1890 107
CHAPTER XVII.
Rube Smith’s Plot to Escape from Prison--His Plans Discovered--
The Tell-tale Letters 136
CHAPTER XVIII.
Rube Burrow Harbored in Santa Rosa--The Flomaton Robbery 142
CHAPTER XIX.
Rube Routed from Florida--The Chase into Marengo County,
Ala.--His Capture 151
CHAPTER XX.
Rube’s Last Desperate Act--Escape from Jail--The Deadly Duel on
the Streets of Linden--The Outlaw Killed 164
CHAPTER XXI.
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