Black Bart
Outlaws of California Gold Rush History
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One of California's Better known
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(the editor of this site chose to censor a word below ) Although he was a notorious bandit, it is said that he never robbed the individual passengers on these stage coaches. Authorities found it difficult to nail Black Bart because while robbing the stages, he wore a flour sack over his head and a full length linen duster. Black Bart's arrest shocked the general public. It turned out that this notorious and elusive bandit was a middle aged man! Authorities further discovered that the shotgun he used to rob the stages didn't even contain shells. Bole emigrated to California about 1830. He was a farmer, a peddler of patient medicines and later a prospector in the gold fields. His first hold-up was in 1877 near Fort Ross. The strong box yielded $300.00 in cash and a check for $300.00 more. Black Bart soon became a celebrity by the local newspapers, but when his first bit of poetry was found in an emptied strong box several days after a hold-up, he became legendary. I've labored long and hard for bread, for honor and for riches,
but on my corns too long yo've tred, You fine haired sons of (censored)es. Black Bart eluded captivity until 1883, when he had cut his hand trying to open a "treasure box". Distracted by an approaching rider, Bart dropped the handkerchief used to dab the wound. The laundry marks on the handkerchief led investigators to Charles E. Bolton of San Francisco.
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