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Black Bart Bolton's 1st stagecoach hold-up 8/3/1877
I sing not of the seas
Or robbing ships of their cargo
But of a man, if you please,
Who nearly broke Wells Fargo.
He made the drivers obey
When he came out on the rocks
And in a great voice he'd say,
"Hey, Mister, throw down the box!"
"Too long, in vain, I've toiled for bread,
For honor, fame and riches,
But on my toes too long you've tread,
You fine-haired sons of bitches."
"El Corrido de Bartolo Negro," by Barbara James
Charles E. Boles (1820? (NY)-1917?), California hooded robber believed to
have held up some 27 stagecoaches from 1875 to 1883. Twice he left verses
in the emptied strong-boxes (verse 2 above is his own.) He signed them
"Black Bart, the Po8." He was always reported as a gentleman. Bolton was
traced, would you believe, from a San Francisco laundry mark in a
handkerchief he dropped. Laundered handkerchiefs! Released after 6 years
in San Quentin, he dropped out of history.
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