Life of Butch Cassidy
Born Robert Leroy Parker in Beaver, Utah, on Apr. 13, 1866, Cassidy was the oldest of 13 children and had no formal education. Cassidy became a cowboy while still in his teens when he met Mike Cassidy, adopting Cassidy's name after he joined him in rustling cattle in Utah and Colorado. He joined a gang every one later called the "wild bunch" who over they years would take over $15,000,00 from banks, trains and other robberies. After a robbery he tried to make an honest living by being a ranch hand but later met up with some old friends named Bill and Tom McCarty and tried to rob a train but after the guard refused to open the safe they left the train alone and left with no money. Later he met up with them again and robbed the Denver First National Bank of over $20,000
The soldiers remained behind the walls for the rest of the night and then ordered the owner of the home to go inside to see if the two men were still inside. After guiding the two outlaws, the local man who directed Butch and Sundance to Casaola's home, alerted four local soldiers that two strangers were in town. The room that Butch and Sundance were given had one doorway that opened up into a walled patio, no windows and no back door. Bonifacio entered the room to find both men dead. Most of outlaw's amunition was still on the mules outside, so the gunfight couldn't last very long. Butch and Sundance desperately tried to defend themselves from the doorway, but the soldiers were able to fire into the room from different angles, hitting the outlaws several times. " Being only captured once and let out on Jan 19,1896 he went back to his hide out in a bank robbery butch's friends Bill McCarty and his brother Fred McCarty had been shot to pieces while trying to rob the bank in Delta, ColoOn the night of November 6, 1908, Butch and Sundance arrived in the town of San Vicente. They were looking for a place to stay and were directed to the home of Bonifacio Casaola. The other soldiers returned fire and backed out of the patio, positioning themselves around the wall. Sundance was sitting on a bench with several bullets in his arms and one in his forehead. Butch was laying on the floor with a bullet in his temple and another one in his arm. "The bank president nervously asked: "Lord! How did you learn of this plot?" McCarty said, "I planed it" raising his gun "Put up your hands. As the gunfire slowed down, the soldiers and witnesses reported hearing desperate screams coming from inside the room and a couple of gunshots. Tom McCarty approached the bank president that day and stated: "Excuse me, sir, but I just overheard a plot to rob this bank.
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