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...Bart J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy, Dr. Alfred C. Lane '83, former professor of Geology at Tufts College, and Dr. Alfred S. Romer, professor of Zoology are the speakers. The meeting is sponsored by the Harvard chapter of Gamma Alpha...
Benjamin F. Bart, Jr. '38 of New York City has been elected second assistant manager of the Harvard wrestling team...
...Fingered Garcia, who could not resist yanking Chinese by their cues before slitting their throats; "Jack William's Ghost," who gave brandy to passengers while he took their riches; Tom Poole, Monterey undersheriff who went bad; Cochise the Apache and his raiding band and, greatest of all, Black Bart...
...Black Bart was the name assumed by Charles E. Boles. Clad in a linen duster, with a flour sack over his head, he held up 28 stages, never shot anyone. At each holdup, he would leave a suitable stanza of not badly turned verse. Once he signed himself "The PO8" Before his final capture, he reached a reward value of $18,000 "dead or alive." When he got out of jail, Wells Fargo paid him $125 a month not to rob them any more...
Long before Black Bart's time, Wells Fargo was supreme in Western Express, Adams having gone under in financial collapse in 1855. Thereafter, Wells Fargo had only to contend with bandits, did so tooth & nail with great success. Then, with horrible suddenness, it succumbed to a group of bandits who held up, not the stages, but Wells Fargo itself...