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Edward B. Trafton, the Merry
Yellowstone Park Bandit
o] SE iot
Him Famous.
DWARD B TRAFTON, a
E merry highwayman of the
old school, broke all pre
vious bandit records one July after.
uoon by bolding up single-handed
in Yellowstone National Park, nine
teen coaches filled with welltodo
ourists.
All the tourists spoke highly of
adventurous Mr. Trafton's gallantry
and at his trial his smile was in
fections. The Government has de
cided, however, to let the smile
fllumine & Pederal prison for five
years, prisons needing smiles and
garety and the outsias worid not
Hikink to pay the for hi. cheer
iness that lr.m.mm
thought it worth,
It was & fine Summer afterncon
last July that & party of more than
& bundred tourists from the Kast
oot out to see Yellowstone Park
M'mm-“...‘
bankers and brokers, and thelr
wives and pretty daughters, and
friends. It was an exceptionslly
m-m.wumwt
déwn with money and
Jeweiry. It took ninetesn cosches
to carry them. Nouve of the passen
.'nrthtlh:nwlhnm
carried any kind. They
m:mhvmhvme
stone Park that forbids this
“What would we do If anybody
lfl.n?’m.m:&.
um-:rm-..
“Why this park o sale as »
How the Sun Kills Some
of Us—Cures Others
LTHOUGH the sun may well
be called the groniost friend
to the genoral hoalth of man
Kind, yot in the tropies its benefits
are sot unalioyed.
dfi::.m m‘-m
are to
intense heat of the sun's too direct
mys. Pevers require trestments
Wmvoiving artificial lowering of the
tempersture by such mesns ae oo
Pochks o svaporstion from molst
Sheets, yot iee Is unavallable 1o &
degree in most tropical countries.
The result sas eapeciod, the fover
rum«umm
:mm-a
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SUBTAYS WAy
eharged with ‘he capping of normal
buman energy in the troples Bun
Sorvess Sebiny. Wby o tobe
Bervous debiling o take
wumm
Al may b charged to
the account of our friend the sun
whet he outdoss bimeel! in kind
Bees
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v Remarkable Photograph of a Hold-Up in Yellowstone Park
Taken Several Years Ago.
How Trafton, the Bandit,
Sing_l_g-Handed, Held Up and Robbed
fursery!” sald the head guide,
laughing. “There ain't been no
bandits out here since the days of
Black Bart”
Black Bart is the name of the
desperado who, until Mr. Trafton
made his holdup record, was the
sensation of Yellowstone Park and
other parts of the West Black
Bart was ingenious. His specialty
Was carry sround with him & num
ber of dummies, which he would
place In advantageous spots with
funs in their hands. Then when
the stage coach he contemplated
robbing came along Black Bart
would step out and hold it up
A look at Bart's feroclous dum
mies showing through the bushes,
with rifies covering the party, was
enough for any stage coach pas
songers. They promptly gave up al!
they had to Mm and were glad
enough to get a . Then Black
-n-ulleumly collect his
dummies and spare ammunition
and guns and proceed to do lke
wise clsewhere. After a while some
one found out about the dummies
and they got Biack Bart. He has
since passed avway to a region
where stage coaches and highway
men are, presumably, unknown.
But 1o go back to bandit Trafton.
m’.-nu':t..:'m -
out stage
coaches, through the Journey,
Nw-u:ulu:'.uz
were roiling slong from
threemile intervals A
information of the party, and
selected his point of attack Hke &
general. On the road along which
the coaches had 1o go there was
A place where & rock jutied
out :um':::m.nu
commanded the Bighway there was
On the other hand the sunlight
in the tropics is the best and prac
tically oaly disinfectant of sasy ap
plication In destroying disense bac
toria, vermin and the ke Mos
Guitoes cannot breed in the tropical
suniight bu! must seek the scanty
shade to their malarial ac
m%hm'fl
ot live ton minwies when stposed
10 the tropieal sun, whereas they
will live for bours and days 18 the
shade. The tropical sus quickly
dries and tarns to sterfle dust all
n-.u-um-aua
animal matter. N tends 1o -
foct and heal the sores of most
haman diseases whose Infection
would spread 1o the shade
The sun may also be credited
with the salvation of the lives of
“mvx-fimdfl
cal countties practically never
e, v
aemer brecding wete
not for the power of
the intense light
Nineteen Stage Coaches Full of Tourists on One
July Afternoon in the National Yellowstone Park
& small level space looking quite
like a park, the sloping sides of
which were dotted here and there
with small trees. None of these
trees, though, was of suWiclent
:l:: to osier protection to & human
y.
The first coachful of tourists
came rolling up. Just “at:’“
by the rock Trafton, w ng »
bandkerchief over the lower part
of his face. stepped out and
levelied & high-powered rifle at the
driver.
“Turn right off there.” Trafton
commanded, “and stop right there
in front of me!” The driver, being
able 10 do nothing eise, did what
Trafton told him.
“Now, then, all of you get out.”
continued Trafton to the passen
gers, “and hold up your hands'"
The passengers, with reproschful
looks toward the man Jho had
compared the park 10 & nursery,
did so. Trafton spread a blanket
at his feet
“Line up!™ he commanded, “and
march past me. As each one walks
m. drop your valuables in this
ket! And don't you hide none'”
he sdmonished. “You Eastern ply
tocrats wouldn't cheat & poor West
erner. would ye™ he continued
mun!y. “If ye do, ye'll get &
0.0‘"‘“ the
one passengers on
Coach z‘ I marched up past
Trafton and threw thelr valuables
n the blanket. then, at bis com
mand. the driver drove his conch
" e
Just aft around and be com
sortable.” sald Trafton. “None of
Fou are gone to get hurt if you be
have ke good little boys and
giriat™
Stunned by the unexpectedness
and sheer nerve of the thing the
mnfl.llnmflt
l&rm-m.‘
the other the road whers the
M“mm
" came up to :o‘ MI..
again bodbed up gave eame
As the of Conch No. 2
paseengers
stood In line. the Bighwayman
showed his first gallant impuise.
He noticed an eiderly lady, await
Ing her turn to pase in front of him,
making some frantle offorts to
mnr-o—u-c some
Jowelry In Betvous haste she
vl Takes boust o o
u=
m"‘l.\.mm s o
: roa
these. You look s ¥ you :3
The other - bowever
were not so : and I & few
minutes (here were two comches
“l““mfifl
tittle park.
There were i(wo very pretty
young iadies tn conch No. 5. They
were handsomely dressed. and W
thetr arpearance 'he daughters of
- they ¢ their rings,
alehes apd puress. Eaeh was
Aysterical from fright
“Gosh,” sald Trafton, looking at
them, “you're pretty girls!™ The
two eried harder,
“Don’t cry.,” sald Trafton. “You
gals are tog pretty w be robbed,
anyway, an' | won't take yer
trinkets. But where would ye have
hid ‘em If | wasn't lookin'?™ The
two young ladies took the hint
rapidiy lifted thelr skirts and
deftly deposited their belongings
in their stockings
“1 can't look the other way.” sald
the courteons bandit, “bdbut I'll look
over yer heads” And during the
operation he did.
One by one the coaches rolled
up, and one by one they were loot
ed. The little park was ma fitied
. The passengers, r fear
gone, sat around and chatted
Some of them even took snapshots
of the procesdings. One. & Miss
Ethel Siater, of Fairfield, lowa, took
A picture of the outlaw as he stood
by the lootfilled bHlanket. Rev
John D Rostwick made a rough
pencll sketeh of the bandit and
jotted down the details of his
dress
After the last coach had been
robbed Trafton deliberately trans
forred the curremey, coln, jewelry
and other valuables from the
blanket into a gunny sack. Then
with the sack slung ove? his shoul
dor and his rifle pointed at his vie
tims he slowly backed out across
'”b:“ and disappeared In the
tim
It was hours before the coaches
could get 1o A place 10 report the
amaring holdup. As soon as 1
did posses and soldlers uth:
off on the bandits trall. Secouts
traced n-::- the :ln of the
holdup to camp e l-l:
Martines, & sheop harder. Hore
spent the night and went off the
naxt morning with & saddle horse
and & -:r stole from Martines
Trafton from the Mavican's sheep
Amp o & Mitle town in ldade
ealled Origee. Trafton's trall was
vary plain, the jest hind foot of
he saddie horse, which was un
ohod -I“.. poculiar mark In
the soll stolen horees and
saddie, which were recovered from
Trafton, were used at the trial in
i ST
and wers by the Mans
"5.:‘- arrtval ot Tratl
ton -uohl-ndm
inlaw, where h.zt ton
while hzl bogrd
ave Lis & #um of meney
she purchased & compiete of
clothing. and thus % to
s Tae b
route by B wio. v
In Denver Traftos burchased »
by his wite, drove lelsursly back
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wae arrected
T«u : this remarkable out
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The Government proved that fol
owing his release from the Col
orado State penitentiary, in
August, 1912, up until the day of
tha robbery. Trafton was hard up,
and that following the robbery he
was veritably loaded down with
money. It was shown, however,
that Trafton made no attempt to
cash drafts or use checks found
upon his victims. He was too
crafty for that. Even a few travel
ers’ checks and money orders he
destroyed, being too wise to at
tempt 1o realize on ;p-\
While testifying In his own be
half Trafton exhibited a map of his
own drawing, which showed every
road, canyon, guich, stream and
mountain peak in the park, and
also in the country between the park
and the ldabo line. Trafton sald
he made the map from memory,
and while it further evidenced the
remarkable skill of the outlaw, un
fortunately for him the map only
served to convinee the jury of his
gullt.
In testifying in his own behalf
Trafton evinced an extensive
knowledge of law and court pro
ondure, and while he made a won
derful defense. and his tsories were
reasonable and fairly well substas
tiated, the Government's evidence
was convincing beyond a doubt.
A number of witnesses for the
Goveranment were not placed on the
ton's two grown daughters
of the girls had told Government
officars that one m ot thelr
home In Rupert, thay had
overheard a conversation batwaes
M.ruu in which Trwaftos
toid wife how be beld up the
ninetesn sage ocoaches, the
amount of cash he had secured,
and wound up with the statement
that he sxpacied to turs fust one
mnm&:“fl‘“
“T'm pretty oM Trafton
e e B S
ap
B o e G
t allow tourists to carry guns,
Bt v Sy &Be pesemere
passangers of
drivers, ‘% ;" Just one more,
and then we'll g 0 to Califorale
and settle down ™
Trafion was bors In the Osarks
Barly in life he ovinced o desire
him constantly in trouble. But
after he married he settled down,
and B e %& bad given
:ih lite of u==
r mother, who had received
6000 insurance on Ber hus
band's life, turned over (e money
nmwhcu
Trafton the money and
tlaimed to have been beld up and
nfl: Por’ this ':ho he was
sent to Cason Chty slght years.
i good Ume reduced his sen
Trafton is sow &5 years ald. Wie
sentence wmay mean (ife lmprieon
1 VYellowstons Booty has bees
cotimated oe more Ihas $30.900
“With a
handkerchief
tied over
ao lower part
of his face,
a high-powerea
rifle in
his hands,
Trafton held
up, one by
one, the
nineteen
coaches.”
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