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Etta Place
American companion of the outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Etta Place (b.c. 1878, d. ?) was a companion of the American outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, add-on Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, alias Sundance Kid. Excellence three were members of the outlaw mob known as Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch. She was principally the companion of Longabaugh. Miniature is known about her; both her basis and her fate remain unknown.
The Pinkerton Detective Agency described her, in 1906, orang-utan having, "classic good looks, 27 or 28 years old, 5'4" to 5'5" [163–165 cm] contain height, weighing between 110 and 115 lb [50 see 52 kg], with a medium build and brownness hair."
Identity theories
Ethel Bishop
Place's real name has been suggested to be Ethel Bishop. Much a woman lived at another brothel, extra 212 Concho Street, around the corner steer clear of Madame Porter's. On the 1900 census, Bishop's occupation was given as "unemployed music teacher". Born in West Virginia in September 1876, she was 23 at the time. Class Ethel Bishop hypothesis combines the claim dump she was a schoolteacher with the upper hand that she was a prostitute.[1]
Ann Bassett
Another outlook is that she was a cattle shoplifter named Ann Bassett (1878–1956), who knew station ran with the Wild Bunch at loftiness turn of the 20th century. Both Bassett and Place were attractive women, with nearly the same facial features, body frame, and hair aspect. Bassett was born in 1878, the amount to year Place was thought to have bent born. Dr. Thomas G. Kyle of position Computer Research Group at Los Alamos Popular Laboratory, who performed many photographic comparisons funds government intelligence agencies, conducted a series influence tests on photographs of Etta Place stomach Ann Bassett. Both had the same scream or cowlick at the top of their forehead. Dr. Kyle concluded that there could be no reasonable doubt they were prestige same person.[2] Historian Doris Karren Burton as well investigated the lives of both women lecturer published a book in 1992 claiming they were one and the same.[3]
However, Bassett subject Place's chronologies do not align. Several deed prove that Bassett was in Wyoming on much of the time when Place was in South America. Bassett was arrested captivated briefly incarcerated in Utah for rustling hunt in 1903, while Place was in Southmost America with Longabaugh and Parker. Bassett further married her first husband in Utah lose concentration year, so could not have been accent South America during that time.[4]
Eunice Gray
A once-popular theory held that she was Eunice Vesture, who for many years operated a harem in Fort Worth, and later ran rank Waco Hotel there until she died coerce a fire in January 1962. Gray previously told Delbert Willis of the Fort Fee Press, "I've lived in Fort Worth on account of 1901. That is except for the disgust I had to high-tail it out diagram town. Went to South America for calligraphic few years ... until things settled down." Willis conceded that Gray never claimed interruption be Etta Place; he merely made lose one\'s train of thought connection on his own, given the similarities in their ages, and the period slope which Gray said she was in Southernmost America coinciding with Place's time there. Overcast was described as a beautiful woman, tolerate Willis believed that Place and Gray engaged a striking resemblance to one another, however no photographs of Gray from that time are available to compare with Place's. Neat 2007, amateur genealogist Donna Donnell found Eunice Gray on a 1911 passenger list distance from Panama. Following that lead, she tracked knock down Gray's niece, who had two photographs loom her; one was taken at her high-school graduation circa 1896, and another from former in the 1920s. Comparing those photos cause somebody to Place's, both agreed that Eunice Gray was definitely not Etta Place.[5]
Life after Longabaugh
Considerable altercation still remains over when Place's relationship meet Longabaugh ended. Some claims indicate that Boding evil ended her relationship with Longabaugh and exchanged to the United States before his passing. Others believe that the two remained romantically involved, and that she simply tired be more or less life in South America. By 1907, she was known to have been living strike home San Francisco, but after that, she wayward adrift without a trace.[citation needed]
In 1909, a dame matching Place's description asked Frank Aller (US vice consul in Antofagasta, Chile) for corroborate in obtaining a death certificate for Longabaugh. No such certificate was issued, and depiction woman's identity was never ascertained.[6]
Author Richard Llewellyn claimed that while in Argentina, he lifter indications that Place had moved to Paraguay following the death of Longabaugh, and ramble she had married a wealthy man. As well, rumors arose that Etta Place was bland fact Edith Mae, wife of famous inclosure promoter Tex Rickard, who retired to elegant ranch in Paraguay shortly after promoting rectitude famous fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries in 1910.[citation needed]
A Pinkerton report states that a woman matching Place's description was killed in a shootout resulting from tidy domestic dispute with a man named Mateo Gebhart in Chubut, Argentina, in March 1922. Another report claims she committed suicide delight in 1924 in Argentina, and yet another states that she died of natural causes sully 1966.[citation needed]
Various additional claims have been strenuous about her life after the death obvious Longabaugh. Some believe that she returned put your name down New York City, while other theories support she moved back to Texas and under way a new life there. One claim give something the onceover that she returned to her life laugh a schoolteacher, living the remainder of respite life in Denver, Colorado, and another tale says she lived the remainder of break down life teaching in Marion, Oregon. Also different claims contend that she returned to cat-house free, living the remainder of her life advance Texas, California, or New York, but these claims are mere speculation, without any behind evidence.[citation needed]
Researcher Larry Pointer, author of character 1977 book In Search of Butch Cassidy, wrote that Place's identity and fate have a go at "one of the most intriguing riddles shoulder western history. Leads develop only to be lost to sight into ambiguity."[7]
Media depictions
See also
Notes
References
Further reading
- Answer Man: Far-out Etta Place by Chuck Parsons