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
We left the Philadelphia road next morning, coming to Pearl River
before we got to Philadelphia. We thought we might be waylaid at the
bridge by detectives and shot, and when we got within two hundred
yards of the bridge over Pearl River, we turned through the swamps and
swam the river about eight o’clock Tuesday morning, five miles from
Philadelphia. We rode through the timber until we struck a road leading
north from Philadelphia to Lewisville. Did not travel the road. Laid up
that day in the woods.
Started about sundown, and just after dark stopped at a negro’s house
to buy corn for our horses, but found no one at the house. There was a
rail pen full of corn, and we could have taken what we wanted, but we
did not do it. Stealing corn was out of our line of business. Riding
on, we saw a light, and going up to it, we found an old colored woman
in the house. From her we bought twenty-five ears of corn and some
provisions, paying her one dollar therefor. Fed our horses there, and
went through Lewisville on Tuesday night after the robbery, and took
the road towards Macon, on the M. & O. Road. Rode fifty miles that
night.
Next day we lay up until ten o’clock, stopping at daylight. Then went
on towards Macon, and turned to the left and crossed the M. & O. Road
at Brooksville, Miss. We inquired here for the road to Columbus. Went
via Deerbrook to Columbus, riding slowly, and crossed the Tombigbee
River just before day at Columbus. Went out from Columbus about six
miles and stayed there that day.
A lightning rod man who lived at Aberdeen, Miss., came out to the house
where we were stopping. We remained there until after dark. Took the
road at dark and traveled toward Vernon, Ala. Arrived at Vernon about
midnight on Thursday night after the robbery, and went to Jim Cash’s
house about twelve o’clock. Got something to eat and fed our horses,
and left word for him to come up next morning and get our horses. We
went five miles above there to a point in the woods.
Don’t remember that we asked Cash anything about the robbery. First saw
an account of it in the Memphis _Appeal_, which came in a day or two
after we got there. John Burrow came to us next morning. We did not say
anything to him about the robbery. He brought us something to eat. Told
us where we could take our horses and sell them. We turned over the
horses to John Burrow that morning, and he took them off to sell them,
but did not succeed in selling the horses then. Mr. Cash afterwards
sold the bay horse. A man there kept the sorrel horse.
We remained around there, staying first in one house and then in
another--most of the time at Cash’s house and John Burrow’s, but not
much at old man Burrow’s. I stayed in the woods in day-time and in the
house at night.
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