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Show fe The Salt Lake Tribune NATION Monday, November27,1995 Outlaws Died in Bolivia, Researchers Say 400-member Western Outlaw Cassidy because of the quality of Lawman History Association the handwriting. says the papers are not conclusive, but “this is additional evidence that Butch and Sundance died in Bolivia He was a gunmanand an outlaw,’ Schindler said. “It just It hasn't been proven one way hand would be in that [profes- or the other,” he said from Hamilton, Mont. “This is still an unsolved mystery ... [but] I would say the evidence is beginning to weigh more on the side of them a Continued from A | Buck and Meadows contend Cassidy, underhis alias of ‘J.P. Ryan,” wrote on Feb. 29, 1904, to fan Gibbon, a Welsh immigrant riend living in the Andean foothills of Chubut. dying in South America.” *T have been laid up with a bad Still, tales of one or both of the outlaws escaping back to the United States are not likely to fade. Thereis the case of William T. Phillips, a Spokane, Wash., man whodiedin 1937. Phillips went by the nickname “Butch,” and wrote casé of the Town Disease and I don’t know just when I will be able to ride, but as soon as | am able I will be down,” readstheletter, posted in Cholila. “Look out for my horse,” it concludes. Buck and Meadows believe Butch’s ailment likely was gonorrhea contracted from localprostitutes. Other papers include a receipt for Ryan’s purchase, for 150 pesos, of a chestnut stallion. Ryan added a postscript transferring bwnershipofthe horse to Gibbon. | Another document details expenses by Ryan and “H. Place,” An alias used by Sundance, for routine ranching expenses The police record also held a a mostly third-person article, ‘The Bandit Invincible,” in which he claimed Butch survived the shootout, had plastic surgery in Paris, married and eventually June 28, 1905, letter from Sun- moved to Spokane around 1910. However, Buck said recent research has shown that Phillips mostlikely was an impostor born in Michigan whopicked up on the outlaw’s legend when he moved west Harold Schindler, who has written extensively on the Old West for The Salt Lake Tribune, has his own post-Bolivia candidate for Butch, and thus remains unconvinced by Buck and Meadows’ discovery. Schindler favors a 1991 account by retired Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Merrill Johnson, since deceased, whoinsisted that his father-in-law, John Kitchen, introduced him to “an old friend of the family, Bob Parker — Butch Cassidy,” in 1941 fiance, translated into Spanish, nd also addressed to Gibbon. It was posted in Valparaiso, Chile. * “I don’t wantto see Cholila ever again, butI will think of you and bf all our friends often. . ,” the letter readsin part. Placetalks of leaving with his ‘wife,’ presumably Etta Place, for San Francis- Kitchen, along with his father, had ranched in southern Utah during the 1880s and purportedly co. met Parker when he was a young A June 30, 1905, visit by SundanceandEtta Placeto his brother, Elwood, who lived in San Francisco, is recounted in Donna Ernst’s book, Sundance, My Uncle. Jim Dullenty, founder of the cowboy. Schindler, who along with The Associated Press received an advancedcopyof the True Westarticle, also questioned whether the letters could have been written by fASOIY BD Whitfield” pellet and gas hearth products. doesn't seem to be that a guy who could write in such a beautiful sion).” However, Buck says theletters’ style matchesthat of other documents attributed to Cassidy. 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