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Show T rH 'WM.IIti i K t. . ' V u JH SALT FLAT NEWS, APRIL, 1975 f ' he was or whether he wasnt, I wouldnt know. ' - SALT FLAT NEWS: If Butch was still alive as late as the Thirties, why' didn't he seek some sort of amnesty? After all, another member of the Wild Bunch, Matt Warner, received a pardon from the governor of Utah in 1900, and he went on to become a respected lawman. And wasn't Butch once offered amnesty by the Union Pacific, whose' trains he was so fond of holding up? He was kind of enjoying life the way it was, and thdt was it They thought he was dead, and that was good enough. SALT FLAT NEWS: From your point of view, do you think all this publicity about your brother has been a good thing or a The old Parker family ranch near CirdeviUe where Butch Cassidy, alias Robert LeRoy Parker, grew up. v Later, thieves came back for the wagon wheels. grand mother would do no- too. I dont think that theres Longabaugh, the Sundance Kid. Can you shed any light on this body any good. They took anything to it out of the house, everything stay? SALT FLAT NEWS: In Decemeven the covers off the stove. I ber RoHe did. He came to my home. of 1972,. a man named guess they couldn't move the bert Longabaugh died in a hotel I visited with him, and he claimstovev And then later, the wheels in Missoula, Montana. He ed to be the son of Sundance. fin were taken off the wagon. claimed he was Vie son of Harry And I cant dispute his word. I , - do not know. I rather thought I doubted it and yet he told some pretty straight stories. He was a great story teller if it wasnt the truth. That's all I can say for . him. He had heart trouble, and I felt sorry for him. But whether SALT FLAT NEWS: You hadn't had any trouble with thieves before ? Oh, no, no, no.. We never had any trouble at all Until this time we never knew what it was to lock a door. Lately, lve been locking the door at night, occasionally.' But we have never ha to lock our doors. Well, I didnt think I was so young. People tell me that. Ill be 91 years old next month (April 5), and I think I really look old, but I really dont feel old. I want to do things. I want . to write another story. And Ill never start one, because if Id . known Id have this, with all the headaches and the laying awake at night, I would never start it. And I wouldnt advise anyone else to. And yet its just gnawing on me I want to write a story of our country right around here. And I could write a good one, because I know so much of the history. And Id like to do that wasnt crime comwhat we have'today,. with pared do you know it? These rapes and all the terrible things that's going on. I think the .Nixon the whole works was dirtier than anything you could ever plaster on Butch Cassidy or any of his Then an - The way Butch Cassidy really looked, according to his sister. Cassidy is seated on the right, with the Sundance Kid on the left Other members of the Wild Bunch are Ben Kilpatrick, Bill Carver, end Harvey that. Logan. Thii group sat for the famous portrait in Texas shortly. after robbing the First National Bank of Nevada in Winnemucca. The audacious outlaw then sent a copy to the bank, thanking them for the SALT FLAT NEWS: Thank you, Mrs. Betenson. contribution. m I'm positive they' werent killed in Bolivia. They came back to the United States and lived for many years. I can't tell you really, anything much about Sundance, but I know he wasn't killed, in that deal over there. And he came back to the United States, and what he done, later,. Im not prepared to say. But I do know they never were killed, and that they canle hack to the United States. SALT FLAT NEWS: The Spokane Daily Chronicle claims to have uncovered evidence that a map named William T. Phillips, who died in Spokane in 1937, was actually Robert LeRoy Parker. An you familiar with Vtbstbry? for a good many years, jotting down different things. My sister and I talked it over, and we thought it was time to have something told. And then when the show came on Butch CasKid Sundance and the I sidy now time thought well, its just to tell it straight So thats what I done. Parker family secrets in your book. Will you also reveal your secret for staying young? Oh, many different theories as to how, where, and when Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid met their demise Am I correct in assuming you don't believe they were killed in a gunfight in Bolivia in 1909? Well, I have been doing this SALT FLAT NEWS: You inti-mate you may tell some of the SALT FLAT NEWS: You might conclude, then, that crime is worse today then it was in Butch Cassidy's day? Sang. SALT FLAT NEWS: bad thing? Well, one thing, its been brought to light that he wasnt killed in South America. And that he lived and rather enjoyed life for a good many years. So, I think that it hasnt hurt anything. SALT FLAT NEWS: You've written a book that will be out in May. May I ask what prompted you to write the book, and why have you waited until now? YES! I'm jumping at this once in a lifetime offer! 5X N o . Only the unflappable D.B. Cooper would dare make an offer like this. Buy one of his sirloin steak dinners ; at the regular price and get another one absolutely free. Your chance to try Utah's Top Sirloin!!! G. 19 EAST 2nd SOUTH - OGjpsrb SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84111 with purchase of one sirloin dinner, present coupon and get a second one free. (Offer expires April 30. 1975) I think thats been proven to be wrong. I know its wrong, but I think its been proven that, 0 |