Big Nose George

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Robert Widdowfield, one of the two victims of George Parrott's gang, was born on February 15, 1846, at Cook Bank, [[Tanfield, Durham|Tanfield]], [[County Durham]], [[England]]. He was the son of [[miner]] Robert Widdowfield and his wife Sarah Craggs, but was brought up by his stepmother, Ann Maugham, from an early age. By the time he was 15, he was working in the mines of County Durham.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://google.com/search?q=cache:8Wi8A2C89k4J:listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/UK-NORTHEAST/2001-09/1000231961+%22robert+widdowfield%22%2Bsheriff%2Bborn&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk|title=Deputy Sheriff Robert Widdowfield|last=Pasqual|first=Phyllis|publisher=RootsWeb|accessdate=2009-05-12}}</ref> It was his stepmother, according to family legend, who decided to take the family to America in 1869–70. Robert, his three brothers and a sister all travelled with Ann, but there is no mention of what happened to his father. The family settled in Wyoming and Robert became a deputy sheriff in Carbon County. On August 19, 1878, he became Wyoming's first officer to be killed in the line of duty.<ref name="Echo"/>

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== Raw Notes ==

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Ellen Compton Sat Sep 12 2009

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Beidler, if I am not mistaken, hung the outlaw Big Nose George Parrott that my relative, William Frederick Schmalsle, brought in to jail. Schmalsle was an Indian guide, Scout, and Courier to Lieutenant Baldwin and General Miles. I heard that Beidler had a remote cabin in Yellowstone Park. Somehow I found out that a shovel with his name on it might be in a Montana museum.

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Kenny Vail Mon Sep 14 2009

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Actually, after some dogged research it turns out that Schmalsle had two encounters with "Big Nose" George Parrot. He was in a posse that captured Parrott (and a couple of confederates) about 12 miles outside Miles City in 1879. The judge (Carmichael)was crooked and the evidence against the gang perjured. They got out on bail - Beidler re-arrested George - he got out again and took his band away off to the north and then west for over a year.

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Beidler suffered his frustrations regarding "Big Nose" George. When Schalsle made the last arrest in 1880 the Wyoming athorities were contacted immediately. Quietly and secretly a small detachment of lawdogs from down there came up, whisked Parrott out the back door of the county jail at Miles City (to avoid potential reprisal from gang members) and took him back to Wyoming to face 1878 murder charges.

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From Jim Masterson's "It Happened in Montana- Vol IV":

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A Twenty Dollar Bill-

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During the winter of '86, this bill, dilapidated, torn and crudely patched, made the rounds of the commercial channels common to Miles City in those care free, law free days. Gamblers said it brought bad luck. One of them, Conn, leaving for Bismark by stage offered to take it out of town. That night the stage was held up by a lone bandit and the passengers robbed four miles west of Terry at what has since been known as Conn's Coulee. The next day Big Nose George, who had long been suspected of nefarious deeds, strolled into the [[Gray Mule Saloon]] in Miles City, ordered drinks for the house, nonchalantly tendered in payment- the patched twenty dollar bill.

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 Robert Widdowfield, one of the two victims of George Parrott's gang, was born on February 15, 1846, at Cook Bank, [[Tanfield, Durham|Tanfield]], [[County Durham]], [[England]]. He was the son of [[miner]] Robert Widdowfield and his wife Sarah Craggs, but was brought up by his stepmother, Ann Maugham, from an early age. By the time he was 15, he was working in the mines of County Durham.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://google.com/search?q=cache:8Wi8A2C89k4J:listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/UK-NORTHEAST/2001-09/1000231961+%22robert+widdowfield%22%2Bsheriff%2Bborn&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk|title=Deputy Sheriff Robert Widdowfield|last=Pasqual|first=Phyllis|publisher=RootsWeb|accessdate=2009-05-12}}</ref> It was his stepmother, according to family legend, who decided to take the family to America in 1869–70. Robert, his three brothers and a sister all travelled with Ann, but there is no mention of what happened to his father. The family settled in Wyoming and Robert became a deputy sheriff in Carbon County. On August 19, 1878, he became Wyoming's first officer to be killed in the line of duty.<ref name="Echo"/>
+== Raw Notes ==
+Ellen Compton  	Sat Sep 12 2009
+Beidler, if I am not mistaken, hung the outlaw Big Nose George Parrott that my relative, William Frederick Schmalsle, brought in to jail. Schmalsle was an Indian guide, Scout, and Courier to Lieutenant Baldwin and General Miles. I heard that Beidler had a remote cabin in Yellowstone Park. Somehow I found out that a shovel with his name on it might be in a Montana museum.
+Kenny Vail 	Mon Sep 14 2009
+Actually, after some dogged research it turns out that Schmalsle had two encounters with "Big Nose" George Parrot. He was in a posse that captured Parrott (and a couple of confederates) about 12 miles outside Miles City in 1879. The judge (Carmichael)was crooked and the evidence against the gang perjured. They got out on bail - Beidler re-arrested George - he got out again and took his band away off to the north and then west for over a year.
+Beidler suffered his frustrations regarding "Big Nose" George. When Schalsle made the last arrest in 1880 the Wyoming athorities were contacted immediately. Quietly and secretly a small detachment of lawdogs from down there came up, whisked Parrott out the back door of the county jail at Miles City (to avoid potential reprisal from gang members) and took him back to Wyoming to face 1878 murder charges.
+From Jim Masterson's "It Happened in Montana- Vol IV":
+A Twenty Dollar Bill-
+During the winter of '86, this bill, dilapidated, torn and crudely patched, made the rounds of the commercial channels common to Miles City in those care free, law free days. Gamblers said it brought bad luck. One of them, Conn, leaving for Bismark by stage offered to take it out of town. That night the stage was held up by a lone bandit and the passengers robbed four miles west of Terry at what has since been known as Conn's Coulee. The next day Big Nose George, who had long been suspected of nefarious deeds, strolled into the [[Gray Mule Saloon]] in Miles City, ordered drinks for the house, nonchalantly tendered in payment- the patched twenty dollar bill.
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