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
About this time old Mrs. Burrow, Allen Burrow’s wife, went up a few
miles north to Crews to see her sister. She got word that Rube Smith
wanted to see Rube Burrow. She came back and told Rube Burrow about
it, and he decided that he would about as soon see him as not; at the
same time he thought there might be some trick in it, but in a day or
two he got his sister to go and tell Rube Smith where to meet him. The
place agreed on was at the lower corner of the graveyard at Fellowship
Church. We went there early on the night we were to meet him. We did
not go to the lower corner of the graveyard, but went down in the
bushes a piece further. I went to sleep after being there awhile, and
Burrow crawled up near the corner to see who would come. He got tired
waiting, and came back to where I was and woke me, and I had been
awake a few minutes when we heard some one walking. He crawled back as
quickly as he could near the lower corner of the graveyard, where we
heard the man walking, and got over inside. He saw there was only one
man, and he spoke to him. They stayed there a few minutes; I did not
hear the conversation; then he brought him up and introduced him to
me as his friend, without giving any name, and did not call my name.
Burrow told me he had not seen Smith since he was a little boy. I knew
Smith was the man we were going to meet, because Rube Burrow had sent
his sister after him. We stayed there a few minutes, and then we all
three went back to where Burrow and I had been, in the woods half a
mile from Cash’s.
We remained there next day, and next night we went nearer Smith’s
house. We did not go in sight of the house. It was about ten or twelve
miles from Cash’s. We remained there two days. Smith went after food
for us, but I do not know where he got it. We then went back near
Cash’s again. Remained there one or two days, when we started south,
traveling down the Tombigbee River. We did not start for any certain
point when we started. Burrow told Smith, just as he told me, how a
train could be robbed. Smith agreed to go; said he had no money, and
needed some.
We then traveled south to Ellisville, Miss., on the Northeastern Road.
It was concluded before we got to Ellisville that we would rob a train
on the Northeastern Road, but Rube decided that there was not a great
deal of money on that road, and we would go back over to Buckatunna
and rob a train there. I should have said that our route to Ellisville
was via Buckatunna, Miss. After getting to Ellisville we decided not
to rob the Northeastern train, and decided to go back to Buckatunna.
We traveled on the road until we got within two or three miles of
Buckatunna. Waited over one day in a little out-house. We went out half
a mile from the house and got some bread cooked at a white man’s house.
I went to get the bread cooked, and made the bargain for it, and Smith
went after the bread when it was cooked.
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