Henry Starr

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Henry Starr was an American outlaw, specifically, a horse thief, train robber, and was convicted of murder once. The committed murder was of a U.S. Deputy Marshal Floyd Wilson in December 13th, 1892. Henry Starr claimed in court to not have known it was a U.S. Marshal and only to know that a man had opened fire on him without provocation. Distantly related to Belle Starr, he was the last in a long line of Starr family criminals. Twice sentenced by Judge Isaac Parker to hang for murder, he managed to escape the noose due to technicalities and went on to form a gang that terrorized and robbed throughout northwest Arkansas around the turn of the century. He was imprisoned in 1915, wrote his memoirs and even portrayed himself in a silent movie, 'A Debtor to the Law' in 1919. He was the first bank robber to use a car in the commission of the robbery. He was killed while attempting to rob a bank in Harrison, Arkansas, in 1921.