Henry Starr
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Henry Starr (December 2, 1873 – February 22, 1921) was an American outlaw of the frontier and an actor of the silent film era.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref>
Biography
Early life
Starr's parents were Mary Scott Starr and George Starr. He was the nephew of Sam Starr, husband of Belle Starr, he was the last in a long line of Starr family criminals.
During Starr's childhood in Indian Territory, he spent his time around gangs in their hideouts. In 1886, Starr's father died. Starr's widowed mother had to watch three children after that. Later on in life, she married a man named C. N. Walker. Starr disliked him, so he left to become a cowboy at a ranch.
Criminal activity
Starr was first arrested and fined for "Introducing spirits into the territory". Starr was repeatedly arrested for crimes he did not commit. After a while, Starr thought that if he was going to be fined for those crimes, he should just commit a real crime while making a lot of money. That's when he started to rob banks.<ref name= "Treadwell">Template:Cite book</ref>
Starr was tried for the murder of Deputy U.S. Marshal Floyd Wilson in 1893.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Twice sentenced by Judge Isaac C. Parker to hang for murder, following a series of appeals and Starr's confrontation with Cherokee Bill, who was attempting a prison break, his sentence was reduced to a sentence of imprisonment for manslaughter. Starr was eventually granted a presidential pardon and released.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=shelbycountytoday>Template:Cite web</ref>
Starr went on to form a notorious gang that terrorized and robbed throughout northwest Arkansas around the start of the 20th century. They were on a crime spree, and the reward if Starr was caught would be $5,000.<ref name= "Treadwell"/>
Later life
He was imprisoned again in 1915 in Arizona, wrote his autobiography, Thrilling Events, Life of Henry Starr and, released on parole. In 1919, he joined the Pan American Motion Picture Corporation and starred in a silent film, A Debtor to the Law (1919), playing a dramatized version of himself.<ref name=":0" /> While attempting to rob a bank in Harrison, Arkansas, on February 18, 1921, he was shot by the bank president W. J. Myers with a .38 caliber rifle, and later died of his wounds.<ref name="shelbycountytoday" /> Starr is buried at Dewey Cemetery in Dewey, Oklahoma.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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- Outlaws of the American Old West
- Cowboys
- 1873 births
- 1921 deaths
- American people convicted of murdering police officers
- Train robbers
- American prisoners sentenced to death
- Gunslingers of the American Old West
- Prisoners sentenced to death by the United States federal government
- People convicted of murder by the United States federal government
- American male silent film actors
- 20th-century American male actors