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Women Outlaws of the Midwest
Among the notorious bad guys who robbed, swindled, and murdered Midwesterners from 1824 to 1936 were a number of bad girls who could be just as dishonest and violent. On September 23, 1895, a woman with a handkerchief over her face and a revolver in her hand stepped into the Mountaineers Club in Independence, Missouri and robbed the faro game of $525 and made her escape. She leveled her gun at the men and told them to keep still, and then helped herself to the winnings. The men in the room were too dazed to give the alarm until the woman had escaped. On that same date at 10:30 in the evening an attempt was by a woman to blow up a west bound Union Pacific train by placing a stick of dynamite in the tracks at a junction half a mile east of the city. Nearly the whole train passed over the dynamite before it exploded. The last coach, filled with passengers, was badly shattered, but no one was injured. Authorities claim the crimes were committed by “women of easy virtue.”
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The Bedside Book of Bad Girls: Women Outlaws of the Midwest
