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He was aka William A. Morgan and as George Edwards.
He left home about 1863 to work in the west as a cowboy, mule skinner and express rider. Notorious since 1863 as an American stagecoach and train robber he worked for and then robbed the Wells Fargo Express.
He spent 35 years in US prisons including San Quentin before coming to Canada. On 23/09/1903 his gang stopped the Great Northern Railway train near Portland Oregon but botched the operation.
He stole $7,000 in British Columbia's first train holdup, near Mission Junction on 13/09/1904.
He and two accomplices boarded the train and stole money from the express car. Afterward he lived quietly near Princeton, not under any suspicion.
In 1906 he prospected on the South Thompson River with Shorty Dunn and Louis Colquhoun. On 08/05/1906 he and Shorty Dunn and Louis Colquhoun robbed the Vancouver-bound CPR Imperial Limited Express No. 97 west of Ducks BC.
He stopped a CPR train near Monte Creek BC with the intention of robbing it but found only $15 and some liver pills.
They were tracked by detectives from the Pinkerton Agency, the Thiel Detective Agency of Seattle WA USA and by the BC Provincial Police.
They were captured on the Douglas Lake Ranch after a shootout with the RCMP.
He was sentenced to Life Imprisonment in Kamloops BC served in prison at New Westminster BC.
He escaped on 08/08/1907.
He staged the first train robbery in Georgia and was sentenced to Life Imprisonment and died in the Georgia State Prison Farm on 02/09/1913.
参考文献
- Brissenden, Constance with Larry Loyie (1997) Greater Vancouver Hall of Fame. In The Greater Vancouver Book: an urban encyclopedia. Ed. Chuck Davis. Vancouver BC: Linkman Press
- Woolliams, Nina G. (1979)
