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Show HO OISE, emNASKS Aged Tacoma Resident Tells Strange Yarn in Letter to Editor ! TACOMA. Wash. May 2i. Forty-five Forty-five years ago . a posse In Missouri ' captured a desperate bandit, upon whoso head a price was sot. Tho bandit was duly hanged to a cottowood tree near Joplin. Mo. on July 12. 1877. The pofso dispersed and a woman whom the bandit had befriended cut h.m down and he recovered from the ordeal. This Is the story told by nn aged resident nf Tacoma. who ha.s written I to a newspaper here to learn If he ' can still be tried for robberies "In Which men were killed." Tho letter states the bandit came , from Missouri to tho Pacific coast and reached Tacoma in 1VV. sav ho has lived here and in this vicinity for 4 3 years and is known at law abiding abid-ing citizen. |