William Lee was an attorney who prosecuted Butch Cassidy in the course of his career. He is the father of Milward Lee Simpson (Memorial #7547217), a former Woming Governor and Senator, and the grandfather of Alan Kooi Simpson, a Wyoming Senator from 1979-1997. Find a Grave, database and images ( https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79238213/william-lee-simpson : …
Apr 30, 2021 · After being petitioned by many of Lander’s leading citizens, including the judge who convicted Cassidy, the governor pardoned Cassidy after 18 months under the condition he would not break the law in Wyoming. Preston was the defense attorney in both trials, and William Simpson, Senator Alan Simpson’s great grandfather was the prosecutor.
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Dec 07, 1986 · Butch Cassidy, said Vallmijana, died in 1935 on the Chilean side of the Rio Manso. ... Among them were Will Simpson, the attorney who had prosecuted him in 1894, and Wyatt Earp, who reportedly ...
Records show that George (Butch) Cassidy--real name Robert LeRoy Parker. --came to Buenos Aires in 1902 with his good friends, Harry Longabaugh (the Sundance Kid) and Longabaugh`s consort, Etta Place, a young and beautiful woman who once had been a schoolteacher.
Down here, they tell different stories. Butch Cassidy, they say, was shot down in Cholila, a settlement about a hundred miles south of here where he operated ...
What happened to Cassidy then is a matter of dispute. Some say he and his fellow bandits went on a robbery spree in southeastern Bolivia. Some say they went into cattle rustling, if indeed they were not already into it.
Pointer says Cassidy survived the shootout in Bolivia, made his way to Pernambuco and then to Europe before he surfaced in Michigan in 1908 as William T. Phillips. He married there and moved to Spokane, Wash., in 1910.
Cassidy, it is known, had long wanted to go straight; his supposed death in Bolivia would have given him the chance to start a new life. He may have gone to Paraguay, to Chile or have stayed in Argentina, but several writers believe Cassidy returned to the United States.
Others say they were running contraband cattle over the Andes passes into Chile. ''The robbers went to Rio Manso (40 miles west of Bariloche),'' said Ricardo Vallmijana, a Bariloche photographer who has done research into the Cassidy stories. ''They used the old passes over the Andes to cross the cattle, Paso Cochamo and Paso Christie.
Jones` descendants still occupy his ranch home on the outskirts of town. One of them, granddaughter Barbara Jones, believes Cassidy eventually went to Paraguay, where he established a successful ranch under another name and died peacefully in 1935.
Butch Cassidy in prison, ca. 1894.
Robert LeRoy Parker , later known as Butch Cassidy, was the eldest of 13 children of Maxi and Anne Gillies Parker. He was born April 13, 1866, in Beaver, Utah. His family’s struggle with finances and his father’s loss of property to a neighbor in the good graces of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints may have impacted the young Roy’s attitude toward citizens in places of authority.
The Wyoming Territorial Prison is located at 975 Snowy Range Road in Laramie, Wyo. From Interstate 80, take Exit 311. The museum stands on 197 acres and is the only federally constructed territorial penitentiary with most of the original structure preserved, along with several restored historic buildings. The historic site where Butch Cassidy was incarcerated in 1894 hosts an annual Butch Cassidy Festival in June. For more information, call (307) 745-3733 or visit the website at http://www.wyomingterritorialprison.com/.
He was sentenced to two years. The prosecuting attorney on the case was Will Simpson, the grandfather of U.S. Senator Alan Simpson and longtime University of Wyoming Vice President Pete Simpson. Not much is known about Cassidy’s time in jail, but according to some accounts, he conducted himself as a model prisoner.
Although many people told tales of Cassidy’s gang robbing banks and stagecoaches in Wyoming, the only two confirmed Wild Bunch crimes in the Cowboy State, aside from Cassidy’s early rustling, were the robberies of Union Pacific trains at Wilcox and Tipton.
Taking more than $50,000 in gold, cash, jewelry and banknotes from the safe, the outlaws escaped on horseback.
And thanks to the iconic film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid released in 1969, it is doubtful that the name of Butch Cassidy will disappear from the frontier of the public imagination anytime soon. The Wild Bunch in Fort Worth, 1900.
Wilcox had served time in the Wyoming Territorial Prisons, right alongside Robert Leroy Parker, aka Butch Cassidy. This led Pointer to pursue the possibility that he might find a prison mug shot of Wilcox. Pointer vividly remembers the day in 2011 when he found the mugshot.
Pointer was always aware that a more complete manuscript once existed, typed out by Phillips’ wife, Gertrude. But no one had unearthed it. Then, in 2009, a Utah antiquarian collector ran across a sale offering on the Internet: The original, unabridged “Bandit Invincible” manuscript.
And during the last three years, he found two pieces of evidence that turned his theory on its head. The first was a manuscript; the second was a prison mug shot. The manuscript was something Phillips wrote toward the end of his life in Spokane. It was called “Bandit Invincible,” ...
Meanwhile, Pointer has by no means reached the end of his Butch Cassidy research. He and his wife have an October vacation planned – to Cholila, Argentina, the site of Butch Cassidy’s old ranch, up against the spine of the Andes. Jim Kershner is a senior correspondent for The Spokesman-Review.
The Utah collector bought it and brought in Pointer, among others, to authenticate it. Authentication wasn’t difficult – it was typed on the back of “W.T. Phillips General Machine Work” stationery. What really astounded Pointer was that it was nearly twice as long as the abridged manuscript.
They were often on the lam from warrants in other states, and they were certainly not anxious to advertise their presence in a new town – especially while planning a job. Ro bert Leroy Parker, for instance, was variously known as George Parker, Jim Lowe, Jim Maxwell, Lowe Maxwell, Jim Ryan and George Cassidy.
And the name Butch Cassidy itself was an alias – and one that might have been used by more than one outlaw. Pointer is not dismissing the possibility that “Bandit Invincible” is the story of “two individuals intertwined.”. Perhaps, he speculated, “these two guys were messing with us from the get-go.”.
Gov. William Richards pardoned Cassidy in 1896. "Bandit Invincible" also describes how Ed Seeley, a rustler and prospector, told Cassidy's gang how to find a remote hideout in northern Wyoming's Bighorn Canyon. Pointer, who authored "In Search of Butch Cassidy," said he believes the Wild Bunch hid there more than at Hole in the Wall, ...
He visited central Wyoming, where more than a few people in the Lander area, including one of Cassidy's old girlfriends, said it was Cassidy who spent the summer of 1934 camping out in the Wind River Range, telling tales about the Wild Bunch and digging holes in search of buried loot.
In 1938, after her husband died of cancer, Gertrude Phillips told a Cassidy researcher that she and her husband had known Cassidy but that Phillips was not him. She did so only because she "didn't want the notoriety," Pointer said William R. Phillips told him.
The 200-page manuscript, "Bandit Invincible: The Story of Butch Cassidy," which dates to 1934, is twice as long as a previously known but unpublished novella of the same title by William T. Phillips, a machinist who died in Spokane in 1937. Utah book collector Brent Ashworth and Montana author Larry Pointer say the text contains ...
The manuscript has an ending fit for Hollywood. Cornered by the Bolivian cavalry while holding up a pack train, Butch and Sundance make a stand. Sundance is killed. Butch escapes to Europe, has plastic surgery in Paris, and schemes to return to the U.S. and reunite with an old girlfriend from Wyoming.
This image provided by the Nevada Historical Society shows the famous group portrait taken in Fort Worth, Texas shortly after Butch Cassidy and his gang robbed the Einnemucca, Nev., bank in 1900. (AP/Nevada Historical Society)
Records show that a rustler named Edward H. Seeley was imprisoned at Wyoming Territorial Prison while Cassidy was there, Pointer said.