Killing of officer in Chilean town of Antofagasta set in motion events that led to pair’s death in shootout with Bolivian soldiers
he two outlaws spent their nights carousing in the bordellos of a far west mining town where they were holed up, on the run from the law. One night, one of the fugitives got into a brawl at an after-hours restaurant. Lawmen arrived and ordered everyone into the street, but the drunken bandit drew his gun. He fired a single shot; an officer died.
The wild west outlaws had escaped to Argentina in 1901 after a series of brazen train robberies in the US had put the renowned Pinkerton Detective Agency on their tail. With Sundance’s lover Etta Place, they boarded the British ship Herminius to Buenos Aires.They settled in a small cabin in Cholila, a tiny town in southern Argentina, enjoying an idyllic existence until mid-1905, when the Argentinian police were alerted by Pinkerton and began to hunt them down.
Cassidy enlisted Frank Aller, the US vice-consul in Antofagasta, who signed a bond, equivalent to $50,000 today, for the release of Frank Boyd. “Aller even provided a house for Sundance’s house arrest,” said Meadows. Butch testified in Sundance’s favour under the alias Thomas Fisher. “I am Frank Boyd’s partner, and we have come from the United States to study the cattle business,” he said.
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