SinisterCrimes

On this day

19 July

  1. 1878

    At Round Rock Deputy A. W. Grimes is killed; Seaborn Barnes is killed and Bass is mortally wounded.

    Sam Bass Killed before trial

    Sam Bass took $60,000 in new gold coins from a Union Pacific train in 1877. A year later an informer led him into a Ranger trap at Round Rock, Texas.

  2. 1878

    McSween's house burns on the last day of the battle in Lincoln; McSween is killed and Bonney escapes.

    Billy the Kid Killed before trial

    Convicted of killing a sheriff, Billy the Kid shot his way out of the Lincoln jail in 1881. Eleven weeks later Pat Garrett found him in a dark bedroom.