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
Burrow got back at ten o’clock that night to where I was staying, at
Jim Cash’s house. He waked me and told me that he had to shoot that man
to get his mail. Before Burrow went to the post-office I advised him
not to go for the mail, as he had heard that Graves intended to arrest
the man. I said, “You might shoot him, and it would cause a great deal
of trouble.” But he said he was going to have it, and that it was his
and he had paid for it.
After he came to me that night and told me that he had shot him, we
then went out and laid in the woods. We left without seeing Cash, and
went over about a mile north of Cash’s in the hills, and remained
there until that evening about three or four o’clock, when Mr. Cash
and John Burrow came from Sulligent. We heard their wagon coming, and
got near the road, where we saw them. Cash told us where to go, and he
would bring us something to eat next morning. Cash only remained a few
minutes; said he had heard Graves was killed. Burrow said nothing about
it.
That night we went to a place which was over in another direction,
about half a mile from Cash’s. He brought us something to eat, and
we remained there one or two days. We then went nearer to Cash’s
house, and remained in the bushes for a few days. Then we went to John
Burrow’s and stayed in the bushes, probably two or three days, when
the men came from Aberdeen. The night they came was a wet and rainy
night, and we went in John Burrow’s house to sleep. Next morning, just
before day, I went out of the house and discovered three men lying on
the ground. I got within four or five feet of them. I did not go back
in the house, but went back in the bushes where we had been staying.
Burrow waited until daylight, and then came out where I was.
The men who had been scattered around the house were gone. I told
Burrow I walked on somebody out there. He said he reckoned not, but
I insisted that I did, and when Mrs. Burrow brought us our breakfast
we told her about it. She went out and found signs. She walked on the
other side of the house, in the lane where there was sand, and she said
the sand was all packed with tracks.
We remained there until we heard the men coming back to Burrow’s, and
they were right at his house before we got up to walk off. We then
walked around there through the bushes, about three hundred yards from
John Burrow’s house, and remained through the day. When night came we
walked over in another direction about a mile from John Burrow’s and
half a mile from Cash’s.
The detectives had Jim Cash, John Burrow and old man Allen Burrow in
jail. Rube did not say much about it, only that they were holding them,
thinking it would enable them to get us, and that they would turn them
out in a few days.
We then depended on the women to bring us food. John Burrow, Jim Cash
and old man Burrow were turned out of jail in two or three days, and
we then continued around in the bushes until about the latter part of
August, Jim Cash bringing us food.
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