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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 1042561" data-attributes="member: 8530">Player HandoutWe will be returning to this campaign sometime soon.   I have prepared the following player handout, which will be the first two pages of the local newspaper:The Promise City Herald, July 29, 1881, Mr. Parker Baxter PublisherJames Gang Arriving Soon!Outlaws Frank and Jessie James have been identified as being the leaders of the Gang responsible for the robbery of the First Bank of Albuquerque, New Mexico Territory, on the morning of July 19th. Two guards were killed during the attack and three citizens were wounded including the Bank’s President, Josiah Holbert.  The James Brothers had become famous while members of the James/Younger Gang, which disbanded following a failed robbery in Northbridge, Minnesota on September 7, 1876.   Under the leadership of Jesse James the gang became active again in October 8, 1879 with a train robbery in Glendale, Missouri.  They next struck on September 3, 1880, robbing a Wells Fargo Stage in Mammoth Caves, Kentucky.  The Gang's next robbery was at a payroll office in Muscle Shoals, Alabama on March 11th of this year.      On June 10th they held up a bank in Riverton, Iowa.  Three current members of the James Gang, Jim Cummins, Bill Ryan and Clarence Hite were spotted in late June watching a bank in Wichita, Kansas, but were gone when United States soldiers arrived.   Iowa is fourteen hundred miles to the northeast, Wichita is a thousand miles to the northeast, and Albuquerque is only three hundred miles in that very same direction.  It would appear that the James Gang is now moving is a straight line towards southeastern Arizona Territory.  This reporter finds these movements of the James Gang to be either a frightening coincidence, or clear evidence that Cletus James has made good on his threats to bring his notorious cousins to our fair city.    Readers of the Promise City Herald will recall that Cletus James was the leader and sole survivor of a group of four citizens that were ruthlessly gunned down in our city during two separate incidents on April 17th and 21st of this year.  The individuals responsible for the attacks on Cletus and his friends remain within Promise City, and are presently staying at the El Parador Cantina.  When asked about the impending situation Marshal Bret Hollister was quoted to say “If both of those gangs want to kill each other, that’s fine with me.  We don’t need any of their type around here.  I just hope the good citizens of Promise City are able to stay out of the line of fire.”Billy the Kid Still at Large!  Possible member of the James Gang? As reported in last week's edition of The Promise City Herald, the notorious outlaw and convicted criminal William H. Bonney, also known as Billy the Kid, remains at large.   He was last sighted on July 13th in Fort Sumner, New Mexico Territory, where he shot and killed Sheriff Pat Garrett. Earlier this year Bonney had been captured, and on April 13th Judge Warren Bristol sentenced him in Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, to hang a month later.  On April 28th Bonney escaped from the Lincoln County Jail, killing both of his guards.   Following the escape Sheriff Pat Garrett and two of his deputies began searching for him.  The trail led to Fort Sumner, where Bonney and Garrett had a mutual friend.  A shootout followed at the friend's home, leaving Garrett dead. This reporter finds it to be an interesting coincidence that both Billy the Kid and the James Gang were committing crimes in central New Mexico Territory during the same week, and speculates that there might be a connection.   Bonney could have certainly traveled the one-hundred-sixty mile trip to Albuquerque during the intervening six days between the murder of Garrett and the bank robbery.</blockquote>

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