Manuscripts

Lake Charles, Louisiana

Description: Lake Charles, Louisiana Robbery, Wells Fargo office, $20,000.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1912 November 13
Call number: mssDodge
Creator: Dodge, Fred (1854-1938)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from William Wreden, August 1963.
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J.B. Humphrey

Manuscripts

French, New Mexico Robbery, Wells Fargo Depot, $35,000, by J. B. Humphrey, alias Arkansas ex-convict.

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Charles A. Beeler

Manuscripts

Charles A. Beeler was a Wells Fargo delivery man at San Antonio, Texas. Embezzlement, $50,000, consigned to Southern Pacific Paymaster at San Antonio.

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Kansas City Southern train - Charles A. Ketchum

Manuscripts

Kansas City Southern Trains numbers 4 and 9 robberies; Charles A. Ketchum, alias Charles A. Hardin, Wells Fargo Messenger and ex-convict. Embezzlement, $50,000, en route from New York to Galveston, Texas.

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Rock Island train - Philip Elmer Tabor

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Rock Island Train No. 43, Robbery near Wister, Oklahoma, by Frank Price, alias Frank Edwards, alias Fleming; Sugarland Case, Texas, Robbery by Thompson and Crain; Philip Elmer Tabor, ex-convict, Robbery, Messenger Lord, Southern Pacific Train No. 9 out of New Orleans.

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Fred James Dodge papers

Manuscripts

The collection consists of 2,313 items from 1890 to 1938; it includes letters, documents and 116 photographs related to the activities of Wells, Fargo and Co., special agent Fred James Dodge. Subject matter includes nine criminal investigations in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana from 1893 to 1912. The photographs are of outlaws and others; the collection also includes lists of criminals, and twenty-three letters to and from John P. Clum, 1930 to 1932. There is also a small amount of Dodge's personal and business papers, reports, miscellaneous items and ephemera.

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Photographs: criminals and general

Manuscripts

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Lake Charles, Louisiana

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