attacked La Port (sic) - Oroville stage here, July 13, 1888. Frank N. Morse, driver, was repulsed by George Hackett, armed messenger for Wells Fargo Express. Twenty eight stage hold-ups in California 1875-1883 are credited to Black Bart, lone and genial bandit poet, who always traveled on foot. Black Bart posed in San Francisco as a mining man, roomed at the Webb House on Second Street and was captured by evidence of a laundry mark and sent to San Quentin for six years where he was released by reason of good behavior January 23, 1888.
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