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Portrait of Elzy Lay
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Accomplice

Elzy Lay

Born
25 November 1868
Died
10 November 1934, aged about 66
Record
Wikidata Q5368639 · Wikipedia

Accomplice in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Cassidy's closest friend in the Wild Bunch; sentenced to life in New Mexico after the 1899 Folsom train robbery and released in 1906.

1889–1908 · Utah, Wyoming and the American West; San Vicente, Bolivia · Killed before trial

From Telluride to the Wild Bunch, Patagonia and a mule with the wrong brand: the trail that ended at San Vicente, Bolivia, in November 1908. Read the case.

Dated events

  1. Cassidy and Elzy Lay take the Pleasant Valley Coal Company payroll at Castle Gate, Utah.