Bexar County Texas Archives News.....Stage Robber Of Olden Days Dies In Penitentiary January 28, 1901
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The Weekly Constitution, Atlanta, Ga., Monday, Jan 28, 1901 January 28, 1901
Austin, Tex., Janaury 25. -- Information has been received here by the governor 
from the state penitentiary that Ham White, one of Texas's most notorious stage 
roggers and most dare devil desperadoes, died in Rush penitentiary of 
consumption.  White started his career in Texas during the days of the stage 
coach, and as a result of his operations along the line of holding up stages, 
he received two life sentences, was pardoned out both times, and at the time of 
his death was serving a fifteen-year sentence for the old offense of highway 
robbery.  He was about sixty years old, and since 1874, when he began his 
career as a desperado by killing a man named Rowe, who had shot his father, his 
career while out of prison was that of a typical frontier desperado.  In 1876 
he held up the stage coach at that time operating between this city and San 
Antonio, was given a life sentence and sent to the Detroit, Mich., house of 
correction.  After he had been there three years President Hayes pardoned him.  
He immediately returned to Texas.  He went to Lampassas and renewed his 
operations by holding up a stage coach containing five passengers, and after 
relieving them of all their possessions, made his escape, but was run to cover 
and given another life sentence.  This time, after service a few years, he was 
granted a pardon by President Cleveland and again returned to Texas, going to 
the frontier, his favorite field of operation.  He escaped any further arrests 
until some eighteen months ago, when he came too near the haunts of 
civilization and was arrested for robbing a drummer near Llano and was given 
fifteen years in the penitentiary, which term he was serving at the time of his 
death.  He was one of the most notorious desperadoes ever in the state and 
always worked single-handed and alone.

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