Show STAGE COACH TALES by E C the bandits nemesis jastes CURRY was the most noted of all the stage coach drivers on the old baraboo kil dourn bourn line when wisconsin was little more than a wilderness and the roads were quagmires and rough rock rocky y trails through the forests tall and fe fearless arlees currys carrys word was law along the stage line and his fearlessness and the respect in which the new inhabitants of the country held him proved the undo und 0 ing of one of the most desper desperate te bandits and gunmen in the old northwest currys carrys stretch of the road was miles of sandy troll trail north of baraboo he drove conches coaches over this route from until the chicago north western railroad extended its line from kilbourn to baraboo in 1871 during the last nine years of this period lie he owned the stage coach line but continued to drive through the bad section in the late GOS the entire countryside lived in fear of pat wildrick one of the most noted b bandits a edits in the history of the american frontier pat was leader of a band of la lawless iNless men who stooped to any crime to do his bidding baraboo was already a thriving community and the railroad line ran fan to kilbourn currys carrys stage coach line made its chief revenue by carrying money from the railhead rall head at kilbourn to towne along the route but principally to the bank at baraboo the people trusted curry so greatly that they never thought of having their packages of money insured and many a tanner farmer or housewife would turn money over to him after stopping his coach along the road and have him pay their bills or buy things tor for them at kilbourn or baraboo curry received 50 cents for each 1000 cash he transported across the country one night he was handed to be carried to the terrell thomas bank at baraboo just as he be was leaving two strangers crawled into the stage coach sat in the rear seats and conversed in whispers As the stage crossed the river and entered a section thick with pine woods the two strangers continued to talk in it low tones curry recalled that pat wildrick and his gang some time before had attacked S S gates and his wife near the same spot and while the authorities were hunting pat a pal of the bandit chief had murdered gates at this same spot on the road curry whipped up his horses fully convinced that besides the in cash he was carrying two of pats bandit gangs gang ue lie expected to be attacked at any moment arriving at baraboo curry breathed a sigh of relief there he be learned that the two strangers were law abiding persons who talked low as a matter of habit the entire countryside was waa uneasy vi khen hen pat was at large and curry was constantly on the lookout for the bandit pat once escaped from the baraboo jail and posses searched the woods for miles around for him As curry drove his stage coach peacefully along the road near park he spied the bandit leader hiding in I 1 e woods he drove along for a short distance as though nothing unusual happened until he met some of the posse he called to them hem and led them back to pats hiding place the bandit was speedily recaptured As pat was hurried back to the baraboo jail he shouted to curry young man ill see you later the irish bandit had a habit of keeping his word and curry and all of baraboo knew what he meant by saying he would see him later curry was wary thereafter but the irish bandit must have realized that it would be dangerous for him to attack the stage coach driver as curry was amas well guarded constantly from the day of the threat by friends who liked the driver at any rate curri curr was the orie ode man sn in the whole v hole countryside whom pat did not dare raise a hand against pats career ended soon after that at the end of a rope in the hands of a mob at portage wis a 0 1931 western New newspaper union |