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towards them. As it pulled alongside Jo t!
whipped a formidable .45 Colt ou t and
Pearl pulled a .38 and they shouted a com-
mand-
"Stop sudden and elevate!"
Groaning brakes, a sudden, lurchin g stop
told th e passengers insi'de better than words
what had happened and Pearl's cry of "Pile
out. Keep your hands up and line up over
there" was promptly obeyed_
In describing it afterwards Pearl said
th at the most badly scared man yielded
three hundred dollars. "He shook so he
probably would have shook it out of hi s
pockets anyway" was the way she put it.
Continuing, "a dude assayed thirty-six dol-
lars and a Chinaman forked over five dol-
lars. The driver only had a few dollars and
we let him kee p them. We gave each of the
passengers back a dollar and I took a look
in the stage for skulkers_ I found two guns,
both Colts_ On e was a .44 and the other a
.45_ Them brave hombres had left 'em
when we ordered 'em out. I gave Joe the
.44 and kept the .45 for myself."
They ordered the stage on its way, advis-
ing the driver to keep going and not look
around and they headed for the railroad at
Benson, riding over the roughest ground
they could find to hide their trail. That
night they stopped at Cain Springs long
enough to eat, then pushed on. Silently they
rode through Riverside, kept on until they
came within six miles of Mammoth where
they stopped. Leaving their horses hidden
in the brush they climbed up a steep sand-
stone bank and located a small cave. Work-
ing their way back into thi s Joe saw two
eyes gleaming in the dark and promptly
shot, killing a wild hog_ They hid there all
next day and at night pushed on.
Joe slipped into Mammoth and bought a
few supplies without being recognized.
They rode across the Gila River and headed
for Benson. Encountering an irrigation
ditch Pearl jumped her horse safely across
but Joe missed the jump falling into the
ditch with his horse and almost drowning
before Pearl could help him out. The horses
were exhausted and it began to rain stead-
ily. They camped in the brush, wet and
mis era ble all that day and at night resumed
their journey riding until five A.M. when
they ca mped and slept.
They were awakened by a posse rudelv
shoving Winchester riAes in their ribs and
the career of Arizona's only woman bandit
came to an abrupt halt. She was trans-
ferred from the Casa Grande lockup to the
Florence jail, that having better accommo-
dation s for women and also being in Pima
County where the cr ime occurred. Here she
escaped once, was recaptured and attempt-
ed suicide chosing death rather than im-
prisonment in the dread Hell-hole of th e
West, Yuma Penitentiary .
Pearl drew a five year sentence while
Joe Boot rated a thirty-five year stretch .
After two and one-half years in Yuma,
Pearl Hart was pardoned. Three years later
she was arrested in Deming, New Mexico
by Sheriff George Scarborough on a charge
of being implicated in a train holdup but
was released because of lack of sufficient
evidence.
So Pearl Hart faded from the scene for
twenty-five years_ Then one day a little, old,
white haired woman walked into the Pima
County jail and asked if she might look the
place over. Upon being asked the reason
she said, "I am Pearl Hart. Twenty-five
years ago I spent some time in this jail
and would like to see myoId cell."
The jailer led her to the cell and left
her th ere silently contemplating the past.
She was never heard of again.
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NEW YORK (RC)-It's a boy at the
home of CMA's Matty Forbes. Still reeling
a bit, Forbes reports his wife doing nicely.
Maybe it's just spring, but rumor has it
that Willie (Little Napoleon) Blatt is plan-
ning with DeWitt (Doc) Eaton, Buckley
Music System official who recently toured
the wilds of Brooklyn, to hatch something
startlin g.
For calling their shots correctly and well
in advance, ' brothers Marc (Silent Man)
and Mike Munves are still the talk of the
town. Our guess is that the right credit
terms plus a minimum of lemons make this
team click.
Charlie (Big Cigar) Lichtman finds the
water fine now that he's back again with
Federal. From operator to distributor to
operator to distributor is his record.
Back from Florida with a prodigal tan,
Bill Rabkin beams again in Long Island
City as a result of Mutoscope's hitting the
town hard with Voice-a-Graph, Ace-
Bomber, Drive Mobile and penny movies.
. Doing test lo cations in upper New York
State and doing them nicely is Al Schle-
singer's Spotlight, which carries 20 differ-
ent subjects; it's a nickel merchandiser.
Pri'orities still loom in the news, together
with a poss ible tax increase on games.
Coinmen, asking themselves if they will
have to run for cover if the going gets too
rough, may heed the advice from those in-
the-know that care should be taken not to
give offense by locating near schools or
dangling premiums before young eyes;
stick to replay, not free play, is a sou nd
admonition.
Nat Cohn of Modern should get th e cre-
dit for starting off those "Meet Your Fav-
orite-Band-Leader Weeks"in which coinmen
meet celebs, the big-shots meet the boys
who keep 'em rolling, and everyone is
happy-particularly Cohn, for whom more
and more Seeburgs roll out to new loca-
tions.
This correspondent has been warning
coinmen about holdups. Another case
popped up the other day due to the exact
practice against which the warning was
made. In withdrawing or depositing money,
do not do so at the same time daily, or on
the same days. Even if it throws you off
gear, vary your schedule and be safe. Crim-
inals first study the habits of intended vic-
tims before goi ng ahead with their dirty
work .
The idea that coin machine operation is
just a sidelin e seems res ponsible for some
of th e business' frequent ailmen ts. Quite a
few newcomers have entered the business
with the understanding that they need give
it only part of their time. As a result these
men have soon lost what locations they had,
meanwhile drugging the market by a ten-
dency to unload when the going is tough
and on the discovery that more than a few
hours a day were needed for succesil'l"
No truth to the report that several pin
ball associations plan consolidation. A re-
cent attempt to form an interstate confer-
ence of several groups to unify legislati ve
and operating practices in territories close
enough to have common interests probably
found ed the rumor.
Manhattan Operator Al Shevrin says that
one location owner has informed him of an
attempted robbery frustrated when he be-
came curious about two men who kept
loittering about a machine. Travelling in an
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