Mormon outlaw Robert LeRoy Parker, also known as Butch Cassidy, is sentenced to two years hard labor in Wyoming penitentiary for horse theft. This charge is different than the one for which he was arrested two years previously. This is the only jail sentence Parker/Cassidy ever serves.
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Cassidy
ReplyDeleteSource: The Outlaw Trail: A History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch
ReplyDeleteby Charles Kelly (1959), pp.56-57.
Also, In Search of Butch Cassidy by Larry Pointer (U. of Okla. Press, 1977).
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