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R.EVIEW
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FOR
MAY
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CHARACTERS
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'--_ _ _ By JAY CHARLES _ _ _ -'
Pearl Hart, Lady Bandit
Only woman to rob a stage in Arizona
and only white woman ever to be incarcer-
ated in Yuma Penitentiary are the unique
distinctions of Pearl Hart, Arizona's "lady
bandit" and now almost legendary figure in
a part of the Southwest famous for its
bad men and gun fighting sheriffs_
Pearl's excursion into banditry appears
the result of circumstances rather than a
deliberate departure on a path of crime
but the fact remains that she was after-
wards implicated in a train robbery which
indicates she did not find the adventurou.
life altogether displeasing. Musty news"
paper records in Tucson reveal as strange a
career as ever conceived for any plot, yet
the world generally knows little of the
gun-toting Pearl.
Born Pearl Taylor in Lindsay, Province
of Ontario, Canada in 1871 she, at the agp.
of seventeen, eloped and married a man
named Hart, first name lost "to history.
Three years of connubial bliss followed be-
fore Ha.rt developed the habit ".of beating
his wife almost to death. She left him,
adopting the well known habit of wives
from time immemorial, and returned to
mother.
However Hart had a way wi th women,
they set out on horseback accompanied by
two Mormon boys. Heavy rains had made
he was her husband and she loved h im, so
in spi te of beatings and abuse when he
the going so bad they would make but an
snapped his fingers she returned to him;
average of three miles a day. They camped
besides there was the baby boy whose in-
at night as best they could, finally reached
Globe. Pearl landed a job as cook in a
fluence she hoped would change matters.
miner's boarding house, saved her money
The reunion in Trinidad, Colorado lasted
so when the job failed she was not in such
but two short weeks when repeated beatings
a bad spot. But Pearl's luck ran true to
again drove her from Hart's bed and board.
form . Word came from her .brother that he
Odd jobs here and there, cooking, dish-
was in trouble and desperately in need of
washing, anything that offered money to
money. She sent him what she had and
support herself and the baby followed for
started looking for ano ther job. To make
several months and always when one job
matters worse Hart, now mustered out of
was lost she moved on to ano ther. Months
the army, returned and suggested Pearl
later she found berself in P hoenix, Arizona
support him and the "work" he wanted her
and the first person she met on the main
to do was not to her liking although quite
street was her husband. This time they
popular and profitable in the mining camps
lived together for three years and another
of those days, even as it is now.
child was born, a girl. Then Hart resumed
Thi s time Hart left her for good but
his abuse and Pearl sent the two chi ldren
Pearl's hard luck was still running strong.
to her mother, fled east and got a job as a
Her mother wrote that she was dying and
servant with a well to do family. No use.
wanted to see her before she passed on.
Hart found her and again prevailed upon
No money and no job created the right
her to return . They located in Tucson and
atmosphere for Joe Boot who reappeared on
this time Hart varied the routine by desert-
the scene. He was broke but had a mining
ing her. He joined McCord's Regiment of
claim and suggested Pearl don men's
Rough Riders. Pearl returned to P hoenix
clothes and work with him, promising her .
but work was scarce and there are records
all the money they made, so she joined him.
of several attempts at suicide. She lived
The claim proving valueless Joe suggest-
through them, finally getting a job as cook
ed robbing the Globe stage as an easy way
in a mining camp at Mammoth in 1898.
to get money for her fare home and she
Her "house" was a tent on the banks of
agreed . after exacting a promise that no
the Gila River and the hard work and bad
one would be shot. Joe assured her this
living conditions soon broke her health and
·was a cinch saying that all that was needed
she quit her job, loaded her few possessions
was nerve.
on the Mammoth-Globe stage and started
for th e latter ci ty. Bad weather had ma de
The fo llowing day saw Pearl and Jbe rid-
the road impassable and she found herself
ing leisurely down the road over which the
back in Ma mmo th, broke and wi thout a job. <" Globe stage must travel. In the distance
It was upon thi s scene that Joe Boot, the nimble of the stage was heard; J oe
doub tful hero of the. occasion, entered. He
wen t over the instructi ons again and then
too wanted to reach Globe and together
the stage swung around a bend coming
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