Show Black Bart Again at t W F Famous California Bandit Once More Takes to the tile I 1 Road and Single-Handed Single Plies His Trade I Black l k Bart the bandit has come to the front again For two years he wa was regarded OB as the boldest highwayman in California and the tho robberies he perpetrated perpetrated tr single handed were re sensational to the limit Stage Stage- coaches coacheR were the delight de de- de- de light ot Or his heart eart He did not care caie how hiv many passengers contained When od seized Kim he would stop on one of or orth th these thee fe Conveyances compel the Ule passengers passengers gers gerI a and nd leave their valuables at I. I th thy f and then after his victims t resumed t utne l their places he ho would Quid order order- f 4 tb driver l- l lt t Id td move al along ng- ng live lively send- send a t t whizzing past his ear as the tho horses rap red around a bend In the tho r t. t fie wes was eventually captured and andi t p d i f term rm In the Sa San Quentin l f 1 iy Yone ee everyone on the tho Pacific c coast ast p heird rd of or Blade Black Dart Bart He lie is a sort of ck In tho th romantic stor story of the theA SIrra a A generation e of r intractable ct C chil- chil i ve e i had solitary r b Black Bert and I d h 1 and rifle hl held 1 up to them as a a. alg lg Black Baek Dart and the poetical rhymes I d to pin to trees In the locality be he robbed stage coaches form a aB I B by themselves In the history of ot gill In some ways was Black Bart Dart I Ithe Is the most remarkable highwaymen 11 it ha has ball ever knowl known And now that j tt Believed ed to be renewing his old- old I t r his name Is on nearly I v ovary evry 9 tongue I AIt Of f mystery always has surround surround- r L da Brick ftc Dart Bart and the finest detective b 7 SIj in ITS California cannot penetrate It Sort d police officers believe belleve he Is dead and andrt ande J e 1 rt IS say he Is In tho the Klondike Almost Ir r opinions concerning him obtained I 4 era agn when e he wa was was- engaged g lt In stage stage- 1 as 9 a regular I pursuit It t Irs ago when the Santa Inez stage rM 8 eld up tip end and robbed of some In y and valuables police officials were 6 sUre a evl li Mt h he was the CITe principal actori actor i It n A LONG LONO CAREER The he flat of tt Black Bert Bart for for- highway robber rOber f In Visalia a Cal In a f ft rey re- re nr y Wl f ltd il A mess mass of Information in I about b t this unusual bandit For seventeen seventeen- years highway robberies l by Black Bart had taken at Intervals and In least ex- ex localities Jill 1111 the w way was from Port- Port to Yuma ArIa Ariz His S name was ar I word d The sa San Wr Francisco c cn n occasionally printed a verse o of fir doggerel sent t to l them in the ny Black Bart Birt Sometimes three g a month were robbed by him and ITt 1 t In a dozen years the arch- arch r a 1 was wounded by extra ivy express messengers and stage adJI iV rho PJ fifed upon the robber r Instead o of t 41 his hla orders to tG toss him himI I j money bo box hox e or letting him lei lei- IJ rob the passengers But Black Blacks w was s never nener caught until detectives cr f traced him out by a curt culT which h hd hO I t Pfd dropped at the Scene of ot a stage staffs hold on oa we was able to connect Black Bart J t. t with th scene or oi any of t the circum- circum si of f the crime e If the e robber b ch had d mel melOSa Into thin air as soon as the robb rob- rob vt f b V finished and the coach had been I j to proceed the police tolice officers could P not been more baffled Although j Black Bart was the lone lono performer In I II some I twenty five n stage coach ups hold In California Wo Won between t and 1583 o ho he never once was apprehended on the road In March 1884 the tho stage coach that traveled the rough road over Oyer the desolate hills and through the tha lonely gulches from froma a gold mining camp in the Sierras to 1 Cal si was held up by a a. masked lone highwayman whom the driver and andall andall andall all the passengers recognized by his manners manners manners man man- ners and speech as none other than Black Bart When the coach had rumbled out of sight on the way clown down the mountain side Black Dlack Bart Dart turned his attention to splitting splitting splitting split split- ting open the wooden box containing the Fargo t Express company's treasure Something must have disturbed the highwayman highwayman high high- wayman wayman w while he be was gathering up the money mone from the treasure trel bOx for when the stage coach passengers had armed themselves at the next Station and hurried hurried hur hur- ned ried back to the scene later that same day the they found among amonA the debris of papers pa pa- pers empty purses and ant wrappings of parcels parcels par par- cels eels a linen cut curt cuff The robber evidently had dropped It In a hurried flight to his r refuge tuge The Tho cuff was turned over to th the express company compan detectives They found that the Indelible laundry marks on the cult cuff were those of at a Chinese laundry in San Francisco Fran Fran- cisco isco When the detectives had learned from the tha Chinese laundryman that the narks on the cuff Indicated that It belonged belonged be belonged be- be longed to one Charles E B. Bolton a It regular patron batron of the laundry they set et about to hunt up Mr Bolton It came out that Charles E IX Bolton who ho owned the cuff curt was a quiet unobtrusive man of ot about 50 oO years yeal JI He lIe lived in a modest and add quiet boarding house where w sedate old fash business men had rooms and every everyone everyone everyone one there was his friend When a detective detective detec detec- tive went to live Jive In the saino saIn boardinghouse boarding boarding- house bous he found that Mr Bolton Dolton wa was was- wasa a a. studious man lived a correct life was a a. areader reader of new books booles dabbled In poetry and every few weeks week's went away to too visit ono one of the several seVerI little mines about California Cal Cal- In which he had Investments IHS HIS ARREST A SENSATION When Charles E. E Bolton was wai arrested attested In his rooms one dOl day on the charge of highway robbery the landlady was Indignant Indignant indignant Indig Indig- nant and anti the brother guests stormed at atthe atthe atthe the outrageous proceeding Mr B pastor wrote a letter to a n. local newspaper denouncing the blackmailing of an honest man When It went abrOad that Mr Bolton Bolton Bolton Bol Bol- ton was accused o of being behig the notorious Black Bart Bert his hili friends were crushed TheODle The people ODle In the house boarding-house began putting putting putting put put- ting together facts about Mr MI Bolton's absences from fromi his rooms which always occurred Just when fresh robberies by Black mack Bart took rook place somewhere on the coast and his associates in the boardinghouse boardInghouse boardinghouse boarding- boarding house were strong witnesses against him During Black Barfs East's trial it came out that he was born In Hannibal Mo 1 that he was educated for the law and had spent on one year at Oberlin college Ohio when he was expelled expelled- for gambling He changed his name went to Chicago and enlisted in a Wisconsin regiment in the Civil war Next he went to the mines mines' In Nevada and drifted to t California where r-p r made a tentative attempt at highway robbery by holding up the paymaster of ofa ofa ofa a mine In Plumas county |