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Show THE BEAVLR iUtiilD PRliSS Thursday, August 13, 1970 "Ho wjiMi't tall. Hp had a tendency to be on the heavy side. "Xfver'did any of us in the family hear of anyone - -- oven those he robhed sny they didn't like my Kvcn the officers that had contact with hm. "He had an easy goinp, friendly way aloiit him. He was good hearted, lie was always for the underdog. "A woman in Helena, M 0 n t., remembers h i s coming to her folks' place and helping them out. She said her mother could-nevebelieve Robert Le-KParker could ever do anything wrong. "Butch and the whole bunch of us Parkers lived in this small place dad huild," explained Mrs. Butch Cassidy's Sister Tells All BF CHARLES HILLINGEB that Butch would come home and. lead a good life again." Tlmtj Staff Wrlttr CIRCLE VI LLE, Utah "Butch Cassidy wasn't killed by the Bolivian arm'," declared the sister of the Old West's last great outlaw. "He lived to be 69 and died a natural death in , Her mother died at 58 in 1905. Butch Cassidy had been holding up trains and banks for 15 years by that time and had already, left the United States for a career of crime that spanned two continents. Shortly after the death of an older sister in 1961 when Mrs. Betenson became the sole survivor of a family of seven boys and six girls she decided tlie true story of her brother's life should be told. in this 1936 country." The current film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" ends with the two desperados being riddled with bullets in a gunbattle with 200 Bolivian soldiers in the year 1909. "That's the story the Pinker-to- n detective agency and the Bolivian government was supposed to have given out," explained Mrs. Lula Parker Betenson, Butch Cassidy's sister. Death Not as Reported "But everyone in the family and a few others have always known my brother was "not shot down and left for dead in Decides to Tell Story decided while there was still someone alive that could tell it. I should do it." She has just completed a book about her brother's life and is The real Butch Cassidy Now 86, a widow of .22 years living in a modest home in this small southern Utah Butch Cassidy's sister is the last survivor of 13 children of a pioneering Mormon family, "Wc never talked about my brother outside the family. We were a s h a m e d . and embarrassed about the things lie did," cow-town, secret where's he's buried." Wyoming, Utah and Colorado newspapers carried stories of reports from time to time during the 20s and 30s that Butch Cassidy had been seen alive various places. Mrs. Betenson said there is "no end" to what she knows about the tine story of her brother. who.se real name was Robert LeKov Parker. "But within the family, seems 'ike it's all we ever talked about, lie broke my folks' hearts. "I can &lill hear my mother praying every night of her lite Republican J for County Assessor Asks tor your support in the Sept. 8 Primary Election Son of the late Henry F. Limb, Max has lived in oca vr iounty all of his life. He is a graduate of Beaver High School and studied for a year at CSU (now Southern Utah State College). He operated a ;srvice station and has worked at the mine in Milford. Your support will be sincerely appreciated Newest Arrivals Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Dcnald Patterson of Moriarty. Great, grandmothers are Mrs. Merlin Patterson and Mrs. Rex Humphries of Cedar City. Mr and Mrs. Tommy Humph-i.i"- ! nf Moriurty. New Mexico, nr.- the parents uf a son burn August 1. 1070. He will be named - r How about Through the years Cassidy and his cronies were known by various names. They were called the Hole in the Wall Gang when they operated from a hideout near Kaycee, FAMILY'S LAST SURYIVORMrs. Lula Parker Betenson, 86, stands outside cobin in Circleville, Utah, in which she and 12 other children of the family, including Bufch Cassidy, lived before turn of century. Wyo. At other times they were were the Powder Springs Hang, the Robbers Roo.-- t Gang, Butch Cassidv and the Wild Bunch. In newspaper sioric-- of Tlmw photo Larson and two daughters have moved here from Salt Lake City. Mrs Thurman Eyre spent the past week at Cedar City with her daughter, Madalyn Gale, & family. Mrs Bernice Ashley is visiting in Rickreall, Oregon, with her brother Bill Bradshaw and his family. Mrs Zola Hawley and family of California called on relatives here Thursday. Mrs Mary Ann Gillins and children of Kearns, Utah, spent the past week here at the Lillie Lambson and J. H. Gillins homes. Mrs Ella Wood is home after being in Shelley, Idaho, for the funeral of a nephew who had been killed in a motorcycle accident. Mr and Mrs Lorraine Dotson of Springville, Utah spent the week-en- d here at the Dohn Martin home. They also called on other relatives. Mr and Mrs Keith Warby and children of Beaver visited at the M. L. Edwards home Sunday Mr and Mrs Roger Nichols of McGill,, Nevada, called at the home of Mr and Mrs Sher-wi- n Wood Friday. On Sunday their cousin. Mrs Maude Theo-bol- d of Sacramento, California visited them. Mrs Leola Gillins and daughter Stephaine of Rickreall, Oro-goare here visiting at the Ethel Mathews and Daisy Gillins homes. Mr and Mrs Andy Bohn are in Las Vegas, Nov., with their sons Kurtt and Carlos and their families. Mr and Mrs Donald Munk and children have returned to Texas whtre he is stationed in the service after visiting her par-mMr and Mrs Marcine Davis Mrs Daisy Gillins, Mrs Frieda Wood and Mrs, Nellie Hollings-heaofficers of the American Legion Auxiliary, attended a who were Wyo.. Nev. Cassidy's gang stayed in Baggs raising hell for a week, spending and giving away all of the $33,000 in the tiny town noted in those days as a rendezvous for badmen. p Mr and Mrs Steven -- Raggs, youngsters at the time, recall when Butch and his hoys rode into the isolated community in the late !Ns following a $33,000 bank robbery in Winnemucta. seeking a publisher. "A lot of things have been written over the years way back since before the turn of the century about my brother, in books, magazines and dime novels," she said. "Some of it is factual much of it made-ustuff without an ounce of truth. His life was colorful enough without dressing it up with untruths. "Some of the drivel written about my brother makes me mad enough to want to kick the writers in the britches." Butch Cassidy was born in Beaver. Utah, a few miles from Circleville. A log cabin British immigrant Maximillian Parker built for his wife and brood still stands there. M1NERSVILLE MAX LIMB ,,0 A corral nearby, the cabin was put up by the outlaw, his brothers and father. Some of the oldtimers in "I South America. "He visited me years after his reputed death. We heard from him from time to time through the years until he died. It's my . z, meeting at Delta, Utah, Monday. Mr and Mrs Walter Lunt of Cedar City, Utah were in town Sunday. Mrs Bertha Crisik of Arcadia, California, is here visiting her mother, Mrs. Inez Carter. Mrs Wayne Christensen and family of Billings, Montana are at the home of Mr and Mrs Douglas Blackburn, her parents. Wayne will join them later. Mrs Lucy Murdock is the proud grandmother of a baby girl born to Jolene and Mick Skougard. It is her first that period, Cassidy w.is were the speakers at Sacrament meeting Sunday. Jay Hiatt and Sheldon of the Stake High Council as a good Matured fellow with a ready Robin vmile, a wc.-te- rle.-crib- m Hood, a man never known to kill. "Anyone in hard link rould go to him for help. 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