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SHMHMHMiHPHHHHHnillBBlHIS9HIHHI! THE "WILD BUNCH" FOUND OUT AT LAST THAT "EASY MONEY" DIDN'T PAY CRIME DOESN'T PAY! You don't have to try It to prove that! Ask any. old:time detective, who has "seen criminals rise, -flourish for a time,, then -spend the rest' of- their lives- in' prison or in exile. ' Ask the four surviving members of -the "Wild Bunch" who are hiding in 'Chili or were'a year or two ago ' what they have to show for their career of crime. Fifteen years ago there wasn't a mor6 daring band of criminals in the world ' than this "Wild Bunch," as they called themselves. You've heard of them of the famous "Hole-ln-the-Wall" bandits. Prom 1895 to 1902 they .'terrorized the West "and South west; tfom Wyoming to Texas. After each crime they sought refuge in the "Hdlerin-therWall" country in- Wy oming until thVhue'and cry subsided, when they would return to Texas. "Black Jack" Ketcham was their leader, with "Bill" Carver as chief lieutenant Then there were Sam Ketcham, Elza Lay, Lonny and Har vey Logan, also known as the Curry brothers, "Plat Nose Qeorge" Curry, Bob Lee, "Deaf Charlie" Hanks, "Butch", Gassidy, Harry Longbaugh, also called the "Sundance Kid," and Ben Kilpatrick, the "Tall Texan." Two women, too Laura-Bullion and Etta Place. Hobbing railroad trains arid coun try banks was their criminal' special ty. They robbed the Butte County bank at Belle Pourche, N. D., in-June, 1897; held up the Union Pacific ex press train at Wilcox, Wyo., in June, 1899; held up-another Union Pacific train at Tipton, Wyo., in August, 1900, and a month later robbed the Fjrst National Bank of Winhemucca, Nev., of $32,640 in gold. In June, 1901, they took $40,500 in b.ank notes from a Great Northern-train at Wag ner, Mont And these were only some of the larger of a hundred or more robberies that netted the "Wild-