P a g e 6 G h o s t T o w n s a n d H i s t o r y o f M o n t a n a N e w s l e t t e r officers at the home of his Aunt Lee near Dodson, Montana. Detectives had caught up to him at that place. He was shot as he attempted to make his get-away from a back door of the house. Sheriff Clarey of old Chouteau County made a trip to Dodson to identify the body. Loney was 28 years old. The Curry (Logan) family had moved to Missouri from Virginia when he was 10 years old. “He seemed a good sort of boy. If he became a desperado it was after he went west,” family friends said of him. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, several holdups and robberies took place, which were credited to the Curry Gang, whether rightly or wrongly. The Chick Whitcomb-Lusk Saloon At Ruby Gulch, above Zortman, was robbed several thousand dollars by two masked men who escaped without a shot being fired. The R. M. Trafton and Chambers Hardware stores in Malta were robbed of a large amount of ammunition. Checks taken in the robbery of the Ruby Gulch Saloon bore forged endorsements with the words, “It’s a shame to take the money,” written below the signatures. The Rock Creek train holdup and robbery apparently set the pattern for the holdup of the Great Northern “Flyer,” 5 miles west of Malta at Exeter Creek on July 3, 1901. The Exeter holdup was the last train robbery credited to the Wild Bunch– John, Henry and Loney were dead. The Kid was the only member of the family of brothers alive. The holdup is believed to have been planned by the Kid and Butch Cassidy. As the “Flyer” stopped at Malta for water on July 3, 1901, Kid Curry and another man boarded the blinds. They made their way to the engine and, sticking a gun in the engineer’s back, ordered him to stop the train. The fireman was ordered to open the express car. The bandits blew the safe and loaded $40,000 in currency and some cash in a gunny sack. The three men made for the Milk River ford nearby, directing a few random shots at the train as they went. One of the bullets is said to have wounded a woman passenger in the arm. The bandits waded across the river where their saddle horses were tethered and made off in a southerly direction. News of the holdup was taken to Wagner by a man who had been riding a short distance to the north of the holdup scene. He saw the train stop and watched the three men making for the river. He rode on to Wagner where news was rushed over Western Union wires to Glasgow, county seat of old
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