Starr To Prove An Alibi

Search For The Robbers Has About Been Abandoned

March 27, 1908—The Waurika News - Bartlesville--The hunt for Henry Starr and his companions has virtually been given up so far as Sheriff Jordan and his assistants are concerned, but a few Washington county posse men are still out in the brush keeping up a half hearted search. The rumor circulated that Starr had been in communication with the sheriff of this county trying to arrange for a surrender is denied by Sheriff Jordan and his deputies, who assert that they have not at any time had word directly or indirectly from the supposed bank robbers.

Sam Harper, assistant chief of police of Bartlesville, who was a United States deputy marshal in Oklahoma and the Indian Territory for twenty-five years, returned from Nowata, from where he had been in direct communication with Henry Starr. Harper is satisfied hat Starr will surrender to him within the next ten days. He said that Starr might attempt to attend the funeral of his baby at Dewey and that he probably would be arrested if he did so. Harper says that Starr is satisfied hat he cannot be convicted when the case goes to trial but that he will not give himself up until he is guaranteed an absolutely fair trial. Starr says he can prove an

April 24, 1908—The Waurika News—Coffeyville, Kan. Coolly, pleasantly and without interruption, two men, one Walter Tenant, the other believed to have been Henry Starr, entered the Citizen’s State Bank in Chautauqua, Kans., at nine o’clock Friday morning, locked Cashier Walterhouse and Del Essley in the vault, secured $3,000 in case, which had just been taken from the safe and laid o the counter sacked heir booty, walked calmly up the street to where their horses were hitched and rode out of town in the direction of the Osage hills in northern Oklahoma.

Thirty minutes later President J. H. Edwards reached the ban, unlocked the vault, liberated the banker prisoners and notified the authorities. A posse at once set out over mud-burdened roads in pursuit of the robbers. It is reported that the two men were surrounded in the hills fifteen miles south of Chautauqua but have not as yet been captured.

Transcribed & submitted by: Mollie Stehno

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