Starr, Belle Story, Carthage Missouri Evening Press, February 26, 1953
Entry/Object ID
AM9999.120.69521
Scope and Content
Belle Starr Story In Carthage Missouri Evening Press. "Light Guard Band Of 1886 Wins Prizes and Sees Belle Starr" was the title of the story.
The winner of band contest received a purse and an engagement to play during the remainder of that fair. The Carthage Light Guard band won two competitions in the fall of 1886. While in Fort Smith the bandsmen saw the noted Belle Starr and S. P (Tom) Glass one of the band members, talked to her and solved the mystery of who she was at the time she had lived in Carthage.
Belle was one of the performers at the fair. The talk was that she was under a two-year sentence for outlawry as a result of her recent trial but, being deemed trustworthy, was permitted to give a riding and shooting exhibition just the same .
The article is two columns and gives more about Belle's life in Carthage. Dated February 26, 1953.