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Poetic Outlaw
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 07:00 Zoy Clem in Advertisement, Cartoons, Crime, People, Trivia | Post a Comment Charles Bolles, the infamous Black Bart, a gentleman stagecoach robber and poet, committed his last hold-up on this date in 1883, but came away with nothing (he was shot at by a stagecoach passenger and dropped the cash box).
The video below is only remotely associated with Bart, but I'm going to put it up anyway:
Bolles was arrested a short time later and served four years (of a six-year sentence) in San Quentin prison. His criminal career was fictionalized by William Henry Rhodes in 1871, which is probably one of the reasons Black Bart is still remembered today.
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