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South Omaha's early stories full of fistfights and six-shooters

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Take it from a newsman of the era: South Omaha once was every bit as wild and wooly as Deadwood or Leadville.

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Carolyn Fiscus, a member of the Winnebago tribe, observes as archeologists with History Nebraska excavate a potential burial site for children who died while attending the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School, which operated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Fiscus' aunt, Mildred Lowe, died at 12 years old when she was a student at the school. Photographed near the site of the school, bordering the Loup River Power Canal in Genoa, Neb., on Tuesday, July 11, 2023.

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12 Nebraska outlaws and their stories

James Butler Hickok (later Wild Bill)

James Butler Hickok was working as a stock tender at a stage station in Rock Creek, Nebraska, in 1861, according to history.com. Outlaw David McCanles teased Hickok about his girlish features, and Hickok in response courted the mistress of McCanles. 

In July 1861, an angry McCanles, his young son and two friends came to the Rock Creek station. McCanles "threatened to drag 'Duck Bill' outside and give him a thrashing. Demonstrating remarkable coolness for a 24-year-old who had never been involved in a gunfight, Hickok replied, 'There will be one less son-of-a-bitch when you try that'," the history.com article says.

McCanles was killed, and his two friends died of their wounds later. Hickok later came to be known as Wild Bill.

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Barker gang

The notorious Ma Barker gang pulled one of their biggest jobs in Nebraska. From a column in the Journal Star from Nebraska historian Jim McKee: On April 4, 1933, Fred Barker, Arthur “Doc” Barker, Alvin “Creepy” Karpis, Earl Christman, Jesse Doyle, Volney Davis, Frank “Jelly” Nash and Eddie Green pulled up to the east side of the Fairbury bank. A black Buick was driven by Jesse Doyle, and a dark-colored Chevrolet was piloted by Fred Barker.

Two of the gang members, armed with machine guns, remained outside as lookouts, riddled the exterior with a volley of gunfire and stopped all traffic. Inside the bank, Frank Nelson was instructed to open the vault, while the other 16 employees were ordered to lie down on the floor.

The robbers took $25,700 in cash and $125,700 in bonds, and more machine gunshots were fired from inside the bank as the gang ran out using bank employees Olive Hallek and Keith Sexton as hostages/shields. As they sped away, the robbers threw roofing nails in their wake to ensure that no one could follow without multiple flat tires.

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Maurice "Blondie" Denning

Maurice "Blondie" Denning, once an Iowa farmer, found his way onto the wrong side of the law at age 23. While serving a bootlegging sentence, he hooked up with several other men to form a gang.

After numerous robberies across the Great Plains in 1934, the gang hid out in the nearly deserted town of Kinney, Nebraska, in Gage County. Sheriff Thomas Dunn recruited a number of officials to raid the hideout, but Denning wasn't there during the raid.

Denning and fellow gang member Thomas Limerick arrived in Kinney around midnight in a car they had stolen hours earlier. Finding the area guarded by officers, they ignored the order to halt, speeding through a flurry of gunfire and into the night, eluding capture.

Their stolen car was found Dec. 4, 1934, in an abandoned barn near Odell. Bullet holes were visible in the gas tank and above the rear door. There was no sign of Denning or Limerick.

Reports came in over the next several days of possible sightings in Omaha and farther east in Iowa, but nothing was known of their whereabouts until a Jan. 5, 1935, robbery of a bank in Hudson, S.D.

Denning was never seen nor heard from again in Nebraska. On July 20, 1936, FBI Director John Edgar Hoover named Maurice Denning Public Enemy No. 1 after the death of Dillinger associate John "Red" Hamilton. Staying on the FBI's radar until the 1960s, Denning was never apprehended, making him the most successful public enemy.

Doc Middleton

Doc Middleton went by a number of names and worked throughout the Niobrara River valley of Nebraska in the late 1800s. According to docmiddleton.com, Middleton is reputed to have stolen 2,000 horses from ranchers and Sioux over two years. His gang was known as the "Ponyboys." 

"He was also a respectable businessman, a lawman and married three times.  Most people who knew him spoke kindly, saying that he had Robin Hood-like discretion when 'hoss-thieving,'" the website says.

Docmiddleton.com

Jesse James

Jesse James visited Nebraska repeatedly during his criminal career. Nebraskans who had a brush with the outlaw seemed to outnumber those who did not.

Some of the stories about James in Nebraska are verifiably true. It can be proved he wanted to buy land in south-central Nebraska. On March 2, 1882, James, using the name Thomas Howard, responded to an ad in the Lincoln Journal. James wrote the property owner, who lived in Lincoln, expressing interest in the 160 acres on the south edge of Franklin. James also indicated he would soon travel to Nebraska to inspect the land.

Historians say James wanted to go straight, settle down, help raise his children and become respectable. But he needed one more score, so he tried to gather a new gang of robbers. Among his recruits was Robert Ford, a 21-year-old bad guy wannabe.

Turns out the coward wanted the $10,000 on James’ head, so on April 3, 1882, he put a bullet in it when the outlaw turned to adjust a picture on the wall of his St. Joseph, Mo., home. James was also suspected of being involved in the Big Springs train robbery, but it was not proved.

Sam Bass

Sam Bass, who had been a horse racer, teamed up with Joel Collins to drive a small herd of longhorn cattle to Kansas for several owners, according to frontiertimes.com.

"After selling the herd and paying the hands, the drivers had $8,000 in their pockets, but instead of returning to Texas, where they owed for the cattle, they squandered the money in gambling in Ogallala, Nebraska, and in the Black Hills town of Deadwood, South Dakota."

Bass and Collins rounded up a gang to rob stagecoaches, holding up seven. The gang's biggest crime was the holdup of a passenger train in Big Springs, Nebraska, on Sept. 18, 1877. The gang got $60,000 in newly minted $20 gold pieces and $1,300 plus four gold watches from the passengers, frontiertimes.com said.

legendsofamerica.com

Charles Wesley Cox

Charles Wesley Cox was a free man for 25 years after the killing of 11-year-old Goldie Williams of Grand Island in 1912. He had lured Goldie away with a promise of new skates; she was found in an empty house two days after she disappeared.

Cox confessed to the Nebraska crime in 1937 in Colorado and confessed to assaulting two other young girls as well.

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Flat Nose Curry

George Curry moved to Nebraska with his family when he was a child. At 15 he began cattle rustling. He earned his nickname after he was disfigured when a horse kicked him in the nose, according to Legends of America.

Curry joined Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, participating in several holdups. Curry was killed by Sheriff Jesse Tyler near Moab, Utah, in April 1900, according to history.net. He is buried in Chadron.

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Thomas Limerick

Thomas Limerick, a onetime boxcar bandit, became a "public enemy" bank robber in the Gage County area in the 1930s. Limerick joined the Maurice Denning gang in 1934, and their spree of heists across the Great Plains began. 

The Denning-Limerick gang burglarized the Omaha and Council Bluffs area before joining the big leagues, plundering a National Guard armory on Aug. 23, 1934, "taking pistols, rifles and other equipment," according to researcher Brian J. Beerman.

Now well equipped for their task, the gang would go on to rob banks in Hawarden, Iowa, Dell Rapids, South Dakota, and Superior, Nebraska, their largest, during October and November 1934. Their total haul: $19,217. 

Limerick finally was arrested following a fight in a nightclub in St. Joseph, Mo., on May 25, 1935. He confessed to robbing banks but never named his associates. He was sentenced to life in prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, and was later transferred to Alcatraz. On May 23, 1938, he was killed trying to escape from Alcatraz.

Kid Wade

William Albert "Kid" Wade worked with the Doc Middleton gang of horse thieves, the Ponyboys, in the Niobrara River valley of Nebraska in the late 1800s.

He turned to crime at age 19. "Eager to prove himself to those around him, Kid sometimes  acted without conscience or morals," docmiddleton.com said. "Often exploiting those from whom he stole, he was quick to beg for his life when the tables were turned. Like many outlaws, death found him at a young age."

docmiddleton.com

Earl Keeling

Earl Keeling's record began in 1928 when he was committed to the state reformatory for five years for a burglary in Saline County. In late 1934, Keeling and one of his partners in crime, Francis Harper, were holed up in the ghost town of Kinney east of Wymore when lawmen converged. Both men were planning to marry their sweethearts the next day in Marysville, Kansas. They had just pulled off the Superior bank robbery of almost $20,000 the week before as part of the Denning gang.

Over a dinner of rabbit stew, the two men and four women in the house had no idea the law had finally caught up with them.

With his officers in place, Gage County Sheriff Thomas Dunn ordered the men to surrender themselves in the next 15 minutes or officers would storm the residence with guns and tear gas.

Dunn's deadline was near as Keeling and Harper finally exited the house. The Liberty Journal reported that the two men walked 50 feet from the house with their hands up before making a dash for a field across the road. The officers' guns began firing without hesitation.

Keeling was hit almost immediately, a bullet tearing through his back and exiting below his liver. The robber continued half a mile more before collapsing in a ditch. The Wymore Arbor State reported that Keeling was treated briefly on the scene before being taken by ambulance to Lutheran Hospital in Beatrice, where he died the next morning.

Journal Star archives

David McCanles

David McCanles is notorious for allegedly leading a gang of men who robbed banks and trains, rustled cattle, committed murder and stole horses in the early 1860s, according to Legends of America.

McCanles was known as a bully in the vicinity of Rock Creek Station in Nebraska, but an article in Harper's Monthly Magazine is the only thing pointing to the gang's existence. The only confirmed fact is that McCanles was killed at Rock Creek Station by the man who came to be known as Wild Bill Hickok.

LegendsofAmerica.com

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South Omaha’s stockyards area circa 1885 (the year Hammond’s packinghouse opened on Mud Creek), as drawn by Eugene O. Mayfield for The World-Herald in 1898. The wagon road in the middle is on the line of today’s N Street.

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