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Soft-spoken, pleased, good-looking, and good dressed, George West Musgrave “looked extra like a senator than a livestock rustler.” but he was once a farm animals rustler in addition to a bandit, robber, and killer, “guilty of extra crimes than Billy the child used to be ever accused of.” In final of the Old-Time Outlaws, Karen Holliday Tanner and John D. Tanner, Jr., recount the colourful lifetime of Musgrave (1877-1947), enduring badman of the yankee Southwest.Musgrave used to be a constitution member of the excessive Five/Black Jack gang, which used to be chargeable for Arizona’s first financial institution hold-up, various put up workplace and stagecoach robberies, and the most important Santa Fe Railroad heist in background. Following a decade-long hunt, he was once captured and acquitted of killing a former Texas Ranger. After this close to brush with legal or execution, he headed for South the US, the place he won popularity because the prime Gringo rustler. It wasn’t till the Nineteen Forties that Musgrave’s age and terrible future health introduced an finish to a felony occupation that had spanned continents and centuries.Incorporating formerly unknown evidence concerning the profession of this frontier outlaw, the Tanners completely record Musgrave’s half-century of crime, from his early life within the Texas brush nation to his ultimate days in Paraguay.

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3 The following morning, former customs agent C. B. Kelton and inspectors Albert P. Behan and H. W. Brady all of Lochiel, joined the posse while Frank King returned to Nogales to notify officials in Bisbee of the bandits' probable trail. 24 One writer (Jeff Burton, in Bureaucracy, Blood Money and Black Jack's Gang) postulated that Ed Roberts promoted, or at least had prior knowledge of, the robbery. The ranchers of the border region felt general disgust with the tariff policies of the federal government.

Musgrave fell, struggled back up rubbing his knee, and limped away. l9 On Morley Avenue, sleepy Nogales sprang to life. Frank King, a deputy customs collector, was returning to the customs house from lunch. As he strolled along the railroad tracks across the street from the bank, he spotted armed men. Assuming a bank robbery was in progress, he opened fire and wounded Musgrave's and Black Jack's horses. Four outlaws mounted their horses; one of them helped the injured Musgrave climb up behind him.

As the outlaws passed the Nogales Electric, Light, Ice and Water Company, they came under fire from Nace Burgoea and Harvey Walker. They finally made it over the little hill in front of the railway section house, with John Mapes and Charley Mehan following on foot with guns blazing. 21 Diego Ramirez of Nogales stated that the robbers got away with forty thousand dollars. " Surely, the gang did not secure all of the money that had brought them to Nogales, and certainly not the forty thousand suggested by Diego Ramirez.

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