Rube Burrow, king of outlaws, and his band of train robbers

Chapter 27: Transcriber’s Notes

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The author compiles a factual account of an outlaw and his accomplices, tracing family origins, early life, eight train robberies across several states, interrogations and confessions, narrow escapes and multiple arrests, murders during raids, manhunts by detectives, prison trials and attempted escapes, and the final fatal encounter and a companion's suicide. The narrative intersperses official reports, witness statements, and trial records to reconstruct the gang's schemes, captures, and legal outcomes, aiming to correct sensationalized press accounts and to show the consequences of a life of crime.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Misspellings and poor punctuation in some letters have been retained.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.