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===notes=== *Moses Ehrich[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Ehrich]] New York fence. Involved in a diamond theft 1875. Dissappeared. *Bloody Benders.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Benders]] <span style=color:green> Kate Blender as a spiritualist in Bodie that PCs discover the true identity of. *William Sharkey [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Sharkey_(murderer)]]. Corrupt politician, gang leader. Tammany connections. Escaped New York under death sentence, 1873. Thought to have traveled to Cuba and eventually South America. <span style=color:green> Recruiter for South American military? possible bodie politician? *[[File:Rufus ingram.jpg|100 px]] Rufus Henry Ingram[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_Henry_Ingram]] Confederate raider in California. July 15, an attempt by Ingram to rob the New Almaden Quicksilver Mine payroll failed. Never heard of again. <span style=color:green> By 1880s could be a gang leader of train robbers, etc. *Michael O'Rourke [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_O%27Rourke_(gambler)]] *HooDoo Brown. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodoo_Brown]] Justice of the Peace. Gang leader and Coroner for Dodge City, '79-80. He was hunting American bison and hauling lumber in 1872. At the time, he was known to be a small-time gambler and confidence trickster. He eventually went to Colorado, working in silver mines with a friend. Hoodoo and his friend ended up in Mexico to form an opera company. When Hoodoo arrived in Las Vegas, New Mexico, he found it was developing a reputation as a lawless place, filled with outlaws, confidence tricksters, murderers and thieves. His displeasure with this led to his election as Justice of the Peace for East Las Vegas. He also served as coroner and mayor of the town, and recruited several former gunfighters from Kansas to form a police force. However, the force was as lawless as the criminals they were supposed to be policing. Called the "Dodge City Gang", the force included J. J. Webb as the town marshal, Mysterious Dave Mather, Joe Carson, "Dutchy" Schunderberger and Dave Rudabaugh. Ousted in summer 1880. **Dodge City Gang. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_City_Gang]]. Stories vary but Hoodoo ran the gang as Justice of the Peace and Coroner and may have done run the group to control gambling while elements like Dave Rudabaugh and others may have been robbing stagecoaches and theiving. *Procopio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procopio]]. California mexican bandit *John Joshua Webb. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Joshua_Webb]] Member of the Dodge City Gang *[[Charles Edwin Loose]]: Banker, Miner
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