WEBVTT - Thus Spoke the Lady Bandit: Pearl Hart 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:02.720 Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:06.760 Hi Saron, Hi Elizabeth. How are you doing pretty well? 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:07.280 How about you? 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:10.880 Pretty good? Pretty good? Listen, got a question for you. 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:12.480 How old? 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:13.800 How old? 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:14.520 Just how old? 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:15.960 Probably eighty three? 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:17.759 Cool? Do you know it's ridiculous? 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:24.880 Okay, So imagine you work at Walmarty. You do security, sure, 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:27.639 and you have to call the police, and you're informing 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:31.560 to the police that there's this thief who's come back 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:33.239 to the store. They've been in the store. They've been 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:35.680 you know, either seen in old previous days or maybe 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.319 even talk to or even apprehended momentarily. But now you're 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:39.880 calling in to get the police to come and help 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:44.440 you because this thief just keeps stealing baseball cards, like 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:47.080 for four days in a row, they keep leaving without 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:50.440 paying for baseball cards. And then then the police are like, okay, 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:54.360 can you describe the suspect. You're like, yeah, he's a priest. 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:57.240 In fact, he's the dean of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:02.800 downtown Pittsburgh. Whoa yes, whoa. So apparently the head priest 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.560 for the Episcopalians in Pittsburgh. They have this guy, the 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:10.000 very Reverend Aiden Smith. He gets arrested February twenty seventh 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:13.160 of this year after leaving a Walmart and he had 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:17.240 twenty seven packs of baseball cards. Shoved him to his priest. 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:19.920 Get up baseball card. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:24.440 I mean anyone can be a kleptomania apparently. Wow. 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:27.440 Yeah, So he'd stolen over a few days about eleven 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:31.280 hundred dollars in baseball cards. Yeah. And he was just 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:35.840 a light fingered priest. And he was like married, had 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:38.000 a whole family. He wasn't like some fly by night. Look, 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:39.319 I'm just in the area for a cow. 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.119 No, he was an established member out. 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:43.000 Of the church. So there you go. 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.440 Never ever see it coming, No, you don't. 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:47.760 So don't judge the books by them covers. Even the 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:48.800 cover says the Bible. 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.680 You know what that that's ridiculous, right, that is ridiculous. 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:54.440 Do you want to know what else is ridiculous? 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:54.640 Oh? 0:01:54.760 --> 0:02:11.519 Please messing up the escape. 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:24.119 This is Ridiculous Crime A podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists, 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:28.040 and cons. It's always ninety nine percent murder free and 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.359 one hundred percent ridiculous. 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:31.280 Are you damn right? 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:37.800 Yep. We do pretty robust and comprehensive research here, like 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:41.480 We've got Marissa and Jabbari doing some of it, you know, 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.240 good portion, and then the two of us will do 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.919 all by ourselves or we'll add to what Marissa and 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:49.040 a lot. 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:50.679 Of reading, a lot of newspapers, dot com. 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:52.680 A lot of deep dives, a lot of side quests. 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:57.760 It's super fun and every day. Yeah, of the time, 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:02.320 the research is pretty straightforward. Each source confirms another, things 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:06.160 line up. There are official documents to use as a foundation, a. 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:07.280 Lot of corroborating evidence. 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.839 Yeah, and then there's the ten percent that I love. 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:15.639 As I told Marissa recently, I am a sicko. I 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.839 love when the story is a little murky, and I 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:22.680 really enjoy when people put their spin on something, whether 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.120 the subject makes up their own mythology just for kicks 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.960 or someone else, Like I think it's genetic that toying 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:34.160 with the truth. Because I really like genealogy. I've researched 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.120 my family and I've learned really interesting things, like stuff 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:40.200 that didn't get passed down in family lore, great stories. 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.800 And I've looked through a lot of census records and 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.360 I've seen familiar places of birth that line up with 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:51.080 birth certificates, like California Texas, France, Irish Free state at 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.200 sea on the Pacific, under a French. 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:55.520 Flag, under a French flag, under. 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:58.320 A French flag. Then you get to my great grandfather. 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.320 His birth certificate it says he was born in Georgia. 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:02.720 But when he becomes an. 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.640 Adult, the state, not the country. 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:07.080 The state, and he's the one who has to answer 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.760 a census taker as to the place of birth. It 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.440 changes every time taker. He talks at every ten years 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.680 when the census rolls through, he comes up with another 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:19.400 place that he's originally from. So like these are also, 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:23.080 these are when he's living. These are from upstate New York. 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:25.560 So you've got a guy with like a thick Southern 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:27.719 accent telling the government that he was born in New 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:31.760 York City or Chicago or some other place. And I 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:33.880 asked family, and they said, oh, he just got a 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:35.960 kick out a messing with the federal government. 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:37.800 It is natural. 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.800 Way more is way more interesting. So never let the 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:42.960 truth get in the way of a good story, they say. 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.080 And I'm a believer in that to an extent. 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:46.839 Yes, an agent of chaos. 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:48.920 I am an agent of chaos. I don't cot into 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.839 lying when it matters. No, no, no, I can't stand liars. 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:57.160 I think that's cowardly, disrespectful, but fudging the truth for entertainments, let's. 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.160 Go fabricators of tall tale. 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.960 Yes, and that's all to say that I have a 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:06.680 woman today with a complicated history, and as with many criminals, 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:11.040 her origin story is murky. There are different versions, and 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:13.719 then when she has the opportunity to tell her own story, 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.400 she plays around with things like, Yeah, she seems to 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:21.839 enjoy developing a biography that appeals to the masses. So 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.800 a lot of the people, much like the Lady Gopher's story. 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:29.960 The core is true, so the whole ridiculous crime point 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:34.440 is undisputed real. It's just how we get there and 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:36.839 how we fade out that gets squishy. 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:38.360 Okay, So the essence is what we should be looking. 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:40.560 Yeah, and I kind of love that. I have a 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:44.520 weird respect for these outsiders who create a narrative like this. 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.839 You know, it's generally because they're being exploited, and it's 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:50.000 like this sneaky way to get some of their power back. 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:51.080 Oh, it's a way to get free. 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.919 Yeah, and it's thumbing your nose at the establishment. So 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:58.320 with that caveat in mind, some of the details today 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.960 may be loose. I want to tell you about a 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:07.680 goal named Pearl Heart. Pearl Heart's Pearl Heart Lady Bandit. Yeah, 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:14.760 so the lawyer, historian, former cop, and nonfiction writer John Bosenecker. 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:18.800 He wrote a book called Wildcat and told story of 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:22.880 Pearl Heart, the Wild wests most notorious woman bandit. It's 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:26.800 a great book. He's an expert on frontier crime in 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:31.400 law enforcement. And here's his caveat about pearl story quote. 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:36.760 For a century, newspaper reporters, magazine writers, and historians repeated 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:41.159 and even invented countless wild tales about her. She was 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.479 the West's first woman stage robber. She was the West's 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.679 last stage robber. She was the daughter of a wealthy 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:51.760 Canadian family. She was a virtuous schoolgirl in Phoenix. She 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.360 performed with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:56.440 She was a trick shooter. Really, I was going to 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:58.560 joke about she was a trick shooter. He really was. 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:02.120 Even her identity has been the subject of controversy. Her 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:06.520 real name was Missus Frank Hart, Pearl Bandman, Caroline Hartwell, 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:10.800 Pearl Taylor, Missus E. P. Keel, Missus Earl Lighthawk, and 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:15.520 Pearl Bywater. She was born in Canada, Ohio, Kansas. Her 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.920 husband was Brett Hart, Frederick Hart, Frank Hart, William Hart, 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:24.240 James Taylor, Dick Baldwin, Harry Borderman, Joe Boot, and Calvin Bywater. 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.360 But most of that is not true. The tales she 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.880 spun and the Tucson jail have confounded authors, researchers, and 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.320 historians for the last one hundred and twenty years. Though 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.160 Pearl Heart has been featured in hundreds of magazines and 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.040 articles and books, not one of them comes close to 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:41.920 an accurate depiction of her life. 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:43.600 Ooh, and you're gonna be the first. 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:45.680 Oh no, I'm not gonna be as I'm gonna be 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:49.600 just shooting in the wind like everybody else. So, as 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:53.440 I said before, there's not a specifically accurate understanding of 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:54.200 her life, okay. 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.400 And so while some sources shrouded from fact. 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.760 Yes, some sources contradict each other, but many support a 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.720 loose narrative. And it's a fascinating one. And that's the 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:04.800 one I'm going to tell you today. 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:06.400 I love a loose narrative me too. 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:11.160 So Pearl Pearl Taylor was born in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada, 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:16.320 eighteen seventy one. Allegendly yeah well, Bosenecker says, her original 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:20.480 first name was Lily, whatever it's pearl. She had this 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:24.200 really rough, tumultuous upbringing. Her dad was locked up, so 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.320 she and her siblings had to do whatever it took 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.360 to survive. And she was this beautiful young woman, just 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.040 a wisp of a thing, five feet tall, one hundred pounds, 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.520 soak and wet. She had dark hair, very striking blue eyes. 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:41.360 Bosenecker describes her childhood as such quote, at eleven years old, 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.480 Lily and her thirteen year old brother William stole a 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.760 cow from a neighboring farm and re sold it before 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:51.319 they were caught. Lily and her sisters Catherine and Saphronia 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.400 frequently ran away from home, usually to the Western United States. 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.200 They cut their hair short and dressed in men's clothes, 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.360 which helped them fly under the radar. Once they'd been discovered, 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.679 which they always were, the sisters were usually sent back 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.080 to New York, where their mother had moved prior to 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:10.080 their father's imprisonment for violent crime. One brother, ten year 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:12.520 old Henry, would take his younger sisters and even their 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:14.439 toddler brother on his burglaries. 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:18.280 On his burglary, I'm gonna need a cover family, Yeah, exactly. 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.240 So she had an unusual childhood's a little out there. 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.560 When she was sixteen, she met a guy. He was 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:28.480 a smooth talker, super handsome. They made a good looking couple. 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:29.760 Appropriate. 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.640 Uh yeah, who knows? Who knows? This guy though? He 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:35.760 was a gambler, so I'm gonna think he's a little older. 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:36.080 Ok. 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:40.880 Yeah, he was a con man. Home you never had 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.800 or did on this labor. He was a little loose 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.360 with the truth, so he went by either William or 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.240 Brett or Frank, depending on who he was talking to. 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:51.600 He answered all three. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:53.679 But we do know that his last name was hert 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:57.160 h a Art, and soon enough, shortly after they met, 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.880 that was Pearl's last name too. Oh so they got 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.800 I got married. Here's how Pearl herself told the story 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.800 to Cosmopolitan magazine in eighteen ninety nine. 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:08.680 I didn't know Cosmopolitano, did. 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:12.640 I take quote? When I was but sixteen years old, 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.960 and while still at boarding school, I fell in love 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.080 with a man I met in the town in which 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:22.120 the school was situated. I was easily impressed. I knew 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.240 nothing of life. Marriage was to me but a name. 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.079 It did not take him long to get my consent 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:31.480 to an elopement. We ran away one night and were married. 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.319 I was happy for a time, but not for long. 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.320 So she goes on to explain that he was violent, 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:41.720 so she left. But before she did that, she and 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.720 her husband went to the World's Fair in Chicago. Oh. Yeah, 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.000 and he got a gig as a midway barker there. 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:48.880 Okay, Pearl a Carneye. 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:51.880 He's a Carnie Pearl who had a kid by this point. 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:54.560 Soaked up what the fair had to offer and was 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:59.640 just like captivated by all the cowboy exhibits and demonstrations, 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.760 in particular Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. She saw Annie 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:07.440 Oakley perform and she was just spellbound. And then she 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.480 went to see speakers at the Women's Fair and something 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:14.040 clicked in her. She's like, I gotta go West. There 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.200 was a cowboy at the fair who was sweet on her, 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:18.920 and she used this to her advantage and got cash 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.680 out of him, and she dropped her kid with her 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:25.160 mom and then took a train to Colorado. 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:26.000 To go chasing cowboys. 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:29.960 Yeah, and she found herself in Trinidad, Colorado, small mining 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:33.160 town so she got a job as a cook in 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.000 a boarding house, and at night she was a saloon singer. 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.960 According to the Arizona Daily Star, she may have quote 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:45.080 supplemented her meager wages by providing more provocative services for 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:46.400 the miners. 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.240 More individualized entertaining. 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.080 That's a great way to put it, the provocative services. 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:51.880 She provoked me. 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:56.239 In the eighteen ninety four she went to Arizona Territory. 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.679 She went to Tucson. She worked as a prostitute and 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:02.920 a cook. There were very few options for women then, 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:08.800 and even fewer than few in the wild West. In Phoenix, 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.960 she found work as a cook and a maid. In 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:17.280 eighteen ninety five, her husband came to Arizona begged Pearl 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:21.079 please take me back, and it seems like they reconcile. 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.320 Her former William Brett Hart. 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.000 Yeah whatever, his name is Hart, for the first time 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.600 in his life, he got an actual steady job, worked 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:29.679 as a hotel manager. 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:30.480 It had changed. 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:33.520 Yeah, life was good. They're happy. They even had another kid, 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:37.680 and I think the first one was still with Pearl's mom, though, which, 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.199 to be honest, I'm gonna be honest, that was probably 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.640 way for the better. So the couple was working and 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.160 they had a new baby, but they also they wanted 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:50.360 a party. They hung out at the Saloons all along 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.520 Washington Street in town. They boozed it up. Pearl started 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:57.240 dabbling in morphine. Oh why not? And then she got 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.440 pregnant again, let's do that. 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:00.760 That's great into pregnancy. 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:04.200 So Fred was like, you know what, this is all 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.720 kind of cramping my style. If I'm gonna be honest with. 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:08.320 You, this is cramping my style. 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.280 Which party he wanted to be solo and free against? 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:14.360 So he split down. Carney, he well, now this is 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.720 what he did. He joined the army and he got 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.080 assigned to Teddy Roosevelt's rough Riders. 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:20.200 Oh, he went down to Cuba. 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:22.720 Off to Cuba fight in the Spanish American War. 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.280 Like later, dude, I got a hill named San Juanda go. 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:27.360 I don't know if he intended for it to go 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.800 that way or not. Anyway, and was he much of 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:30.440 a cowboy? 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.840 I mean, those are all guys for their riding skills. 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.320 I don't think so. Okay, So then we get to 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:39.200 the point of did he go, I'm off to join 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:45.120 the rough just gonna go? Yeah? So Pearl, there she 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.480 is in Phoenix, she's got two little kids, not a 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.600 lot of options. By this time, her mom had moved 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:55.120 to Ohio. Now the reasonable thing would be for Pearl 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.600 and her kids to get on a train go to Ohio. 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.560 She could raise her kids live with her mom straight, 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:05.520 But we don't traffic and reasonable here. No, Pearl put 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.559 her kids on the train to Ohio to go to. 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:09.440 Her moms good book. 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.920 And then she decided to go out for more adventure 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.240 in the wilds of the western US. 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.319 Okay, she still wants to be a cowgirl like. 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:19.520 She's got a deeper bliz. Yeah, let's take a break, 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:21.720 and when we return, I'm going to tell you about 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:23.360 Pearl's latest hair brain. 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:45.560 Ideas, Zarah Elizabeth. 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.400 So here we are. It's eighteen ninety nine. 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:49.160 Gid up. 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.400 Pearl Heart has put her kids on a train to 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.080 go live with her mother in Ohio. 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.120 Bye, when you see grandma, get. 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:58.280 Off, Yeah, just jump off. When you get you'll see 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.320 it looks familiar. And they're like, we ever been. 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:01.600 It doesn't matter, it's fine. 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.880 So then she went up into the Pinel Mountains outside 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.560 Globe Arizona. If you say so, system, Yeah, I actually 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.920 know people in Globe Arizona. Which is so weird reading this. 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.360 Yes, they're just they. 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:19.000 Just live there. It looks like a cool place, but 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.000 I've not been, but it looks like a cool place, 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:26.440 like like gently rolling hills and dramatic mountains in the background. 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.080 So it's not like a mining more like agriculture area. 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:31.240 No, it's a mining it's a mining area. So it's 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:35.200 like a ways east of Phoenix. And the place names 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:39.760 around there are amazing. There's six Shooter Canyon, Yes, the 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:44.200 Superstition Mountains. Oh wow, Tortilla Flat, not the Steinbeck one. 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.920 Okay, top of the World Mountain. 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:52.280 That's a town town. Yeah, dripping springs. And it's right 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:56.560 next to the San Carlos Apache Reservation, which in Pearls 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:00.280 time had been established only twenty or so years. 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:01.320 It's still fresh. 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.080 Yeah. So out there, she got a job as a 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.040 cook in the mining camps, and so like this hard 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:11.000 scrabble existence, you know, in this rough place, only made 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:15.720 her rougher, and so she boozed it up. She smokes cigars, 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.080 you know. She still kind of messed around with morphine 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:22.520 a little bit of just let off some steam. She'd 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.160 work and then save her money up and then the 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.640 mine would shut down and she'd go looking for another 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.080 one in need of her services. Then she got some 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:34.040 bad news. Her sister wrote to her somehow like I 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:39.160 have no idea how you write a letter to someone. Yeah, yeah, 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:41.280 and told her that her mother was in a very 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:45.040 bad way, wasn't expected to last much longer. So I 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.760 wonder how long did it take for the letter to 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.640 reach her in the middle of nowhere Arizona from Ohio. 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:53.560 Back then, I feel like her mom may have already 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:55.480 expired by the time she gets the letter. 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:57.640 Yeah, is she going to be replying or is she 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:59.120 just going to jump into actually. 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.480 Pearls Besides, she gets this news, she's like, I've got 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.600 to get back to Ohio. Oh my gosh, I have 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.840 kids there too. But she's like, I didn't have the 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:10.439 money for it. And so she was telling a friend 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:12.760 all about her problem, a miner by the name of 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:16.600 Joe Boot, and that's a great old West yes yea. 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:20.000 So Boot told Pearl that she could go in on 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.359 a mining claim with him, they could work it, and 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.119 then she could get the cash she needed. 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.399 So it was not like an immediacy into Pearl. 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:29.600 Your mom is deathly ill. I don't think you have 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:31.560 the time to go and try and get silver. 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:31.879 Out of the ground. 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:36.280 You need cash, girl, So she didn't think she had 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:39.560 any other option, so they went off to mine the land. 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.199 Only the steak was tapped out. 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:43.840 No, no, nothing. 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:46.600 So then Boot was like, okay, you know, I have 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:50.639 another idea. Yeah, this is one that he'd been thinking 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:53.960 about for a while now, it seems her a long 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:57.280 time he'd been wanting to start a career in criming. 0:17:57.600 --> 0:17:58.719 Oh. 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.840 He had all these like a variety of criminal money 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:06.280 making ideas positions. It's a self starting kind of thing. 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:10.399 They range from like everyday scams to train robbery, and 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.240 Pearl's like, you know what count me in. I did 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:16.720 this as a kid. It's funny. I have some experience 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:20.440 on my resume. So she knows the life and she's 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.320 hard boiled, like this is a good fit. So to 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:25.679 start things off, they did like the old love scam 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:28.639 where Pearl would lure a guy to her room and 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:32.040 they'd talk of romance and steamy stuff and then the 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:34.879 guy would be like warm for her tiny form and 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.040 as soon as they got their Boot would jump out 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:38.600 and like hit the guy over the head and knock 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.080 him out, and then Pearl and Boot go through his 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:42.960 pockets and such and take everything he had. 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:44.240 Oh, they would just jack them. 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:44.879 They just jump it. 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:46.840 We're going to blackmail you to your wife. 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:52.000 No, no, it was very yes, and so this got 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:54.000 the little bits and bobs here and there. But they 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:56.680 wanted more, like they wanted a big score. So they 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.359 decided to maybe, I don't know, rob a stage coach. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:01.439 That's the next steps more people. 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:05.840 Per the Arizona Daily Star quote, there's no telling which 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.720 one Pearl or Boot came up with the idea to 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:12.000 rob a stage coach. But one thing's for sure. Neither 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:16.320 invested much thought into an escape plan. Oh no, yeah, 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:18.720 I know how much that annoys you, mister Burnette. 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.399 Always it bothers me too. It's a big part of 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:22.600 the crime getting away. 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:26.480 If you're going to go to the effort to break 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.080 the law and take this huge risk, Yes, you simply 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:30.400 must think it through. 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.040 Yes, that has got to be part of the process. 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:34.720 From the moment of the crime on is like the 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:36.320 most important part of plan. 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:38.240 Imagine if you were a farmer and you like you 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:40.480 go through all the work of tilling your field, you 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:45.200 you plan everything, and you're like, oh, harvest, I never thought. 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:46.760 I thought people would just come out and buy it 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:48.320 out of the field act. 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:53.440 So they did. They did some forward planning. They went 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:54.480 out and got horses. 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:57.000 Okay, you're gonna need those, and guns, also going to 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:00.000 need those, and snacks. 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:02.040 S Pearl got herself an incredible outfit. 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:02.919 I was wondering. 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:05.760 She got a wide brimmed hat that in some accounts 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:09.760 is called a sombrero its own. She had jeans, knee boots. 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:12.880 You know that there's that kind of like spaghetti western 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:17.960 hat that's been gentrified by the Coachella Indio festival mom set, 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:21.920 like the flat brim. I think the new hip hat 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:24.800 is going to be the sombrero. It's giving desperado, not 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:27.280 like the comical straw ones, but like felt. 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.480 The felt embroidered. We may already be there. 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:31.640 I had choices. Isn't too far from a sombrero? 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:32.639 What you had a choice? 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:32.760