Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr <5 (February 5, 1848 - February 3, 1889), better known as Belle Starr , is a famous American criminal.
Belle is linked to Gang James-Younger and other criminals. He was convicted of a horse theft in 1883. He was shot dead in 1889 in an unresolved case. The story was popularized by Richard K. Fox - editor and publisher of the National Police Gazette - and he later became a popular figure on television and film.
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Belle Starr was born Myra Maybelle Shirley at his father's farm near Carthage, Missouri, on February 5, 1848. Most members of his family called him May. His father, John Shirley, prospered raising wheat, corn, pigs and horses, though he was considered a "scapegoat" from a Virginia family who had moved west to Indiana, where he married and divorced twice. His mother, Elizabeth "Eliza" Hatfield Shirley, is the third wife of John Shirley and a distant relative of Hatfields from a famous family feud. In the 1860s, his father sold the farm and moved the family to Carthage, where he bought an inn, a metal shop and a sterile silver in the town square.
May Shirley received a classical education and piano lesson, while graduating from Missouri's Carthage Female Academy, a private institution whose father helped find.
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During the Civil War
After the Union attack on Carthage in 1864, Shirley moved to Scyene, Texas. According to legend, in Scyene that Shirley became associated with a number of Missouri-born criminals, including Jesse James and the Youngers. In fact, he knew James's brothers and sisters because he grew up with them in Missouri. His brother, John A. M. "Bud" Shirley, was summoned Captain Shirley by local Confederate sympathizers. He does not appear on the Quantrill Raiders list, but rides with a group called partisan by some and bushwackers by Union sympathizers. Bud Shirley was killed in 1864 in Sarcoxie, Missouri, while he and another spy were eating at the home of Confederate sympathizers. Union forces surrounded the house and when Bud tried to escape, he was shot and killed.
After the Civil War
After the war, Reed's family also moved to Scyene and May Shirley married Jim Reed in 1866, having previously fancied him as a teenager. Two years later, she gave birth to her first child, Rosie Lee (nicknamed Pearl). Belle always harbored a strong sense of style, which would feed into the legend later on. A cracked shot, he used to ride sidesaddle while wearing black velvet habits and a furry hat, carrying two pistols, with a cartridge belt on his hip. Jim turned to crime and was wanted for murder in Arkansas, which caused his family to move to California, where their second son, James Edwin (Eddie), was born in 1871.
Then back to Texas, Jim Reed got involved with some criminal gangs. While Jim initially tried his hand on the farm, he would become anxious and fall into a bad company - the Starr clan, the famous Cherokee Indian family for whiskey, cattle and horse theft in the Territory of India (now Oklahoma), as well as old friends his wife, the James and Younger gang. In April 1874, although there was no evidence, a warrant was issued for his arrest due to a train robbery by her husband and others. Jim Reed was killed in August of that year in Paris, Texas, where he lives with his family.
Marriage to Sam Starr
Allegedly, Belle was married for three weeks to Charles Younger, Uncle Cole Younger in 1878, but this was not proved by any evidence. There are many claims that Belle's daughter, Pearl Reed, is actually Pearl Younger, but in Cole Younger's own biography (quoted in Glen Shirley, "Belle Starr and her times"), Cole Younger discounts it as rubbish and puts what she really knows about Belle. In 1880 he married a Cherokee man named Sam Starr and settled with the Starr family in the Indian Territory. There, he learned how to organize, plan and fence rustlers, horse thieves and liquor makers, and keep them from the law. Wild companies Belle proved quite profitable for him to use bribes to free his friends from law whenever they were arrested.
In 1883, Belle and Sam were captured by Bass Reeves who was accused of stealing a horse and on trial at Isaac Parker Federal Court Court in Fort Smith, Arkansas; prosecutor is US Attorney W. H. H. Clayton. He was found guilty and served nine months at the Detroit House of Corrections in Detroit, Michigan. Belle proved to be an exemplary prisoner and during her time in prison she won the respect of prison wardens, while Sam was beyond repair and was assigned to forced labor.
In 1886, he escaped allegations of another theft, but on December 17 Sam Starr was involved in a shootout with Officer Frank West. The two men were killed, while Belle's life as a criminal queen - and what was the happiest relationship in her life - suddenly ended with her husband's death.
Unsolved killings
During the last two years of his life, gossip and scandalous pieces link him to a series of men with colorful names, including Jack Spaniard, Jim French and Blue Duck, afterwards, to keep his place on Indian soil, he married a relative Sam Starr , Jim Juli Starr, who is 15 years his junior.
On February 3, 1889, two days before his 41st birthday, he was assassinated. He was driving home from a neighbor's house in Eufaula, Oklahoma, when he was ambushed. After he fell from his horse, he was shot again to make sure he died. His death was caused by gunshot wounds on his back and neck and on his shoulders and face. Legend has it that he was shot with his own double-barreled rifle.
According to Frank Eaton's "Pete's Pistol", his death was caused by different circumstances. She has attended a dance. Frank Eaton was the last person to dance with Belle Starr when Edgar Watson, obviously drunk asked to dance with him. When Belle Starr refused, he then followed her. While on his way home, he stops to give his horse to the river, he shoots and kills him. According to Frank Eaton, Watson was tried, convicted, and executed by hanging for the murder.
However, another story says there are no witnesses and no one has ever been convicted of the murder. The suspect with a clear motive includes his new husband and two children, and Edgar J. Watson, one of the farmers, because he is afraid he will hand it over to the authorities as a murderer who fled from Florida for a price over his head. Watson, who was killed in 1910, was put on trial for his murder, but was released, and the ambush had entered Western knowledge as "unsolved".
One source said that his son, who was alleged to have been beaten for persecuting his horse, was probably the murderer.
Stories become popular
Although an obscure figure outside Texas throughout most of his life, Belle's story was taken by novelist and publisher of the National Police Gazette, Richard K. Fox. Fox made his name famous for his novel Bella Starr, Bandit Queen, or Jesse James Woman, published in 1889 (the year of his murder). This novel is still often cited as a historical reference. It was the first of many popular stories to use his name.
Children
Belle's son, Eddie Reed, was convicted of theft of horses and received stolen goods in July 1889. Judge Parker sent him to jail in Columbus, Ohio. Princess Belle, Rosie Reed, also known as Pearl Starr, became a prostitute to raise funds for the release of Eddie. He finally got the president's pardon in 1893. Ironically, Eddie became a representative at Fort Smith and killed two brothers criminals named Crittenden in 1895, and himself was killed in a sedan in Claremore, Oklahoma on December 14, 1896.
Pearl operated several brothels in Van Buren and Fort Smith, Arkansas, from the 1890s to World War I.
Appearance in art
Movies and TV series
- He was photographed by Betty Compson in the silent film of 1928 Court Martial .
- Gene Tierney played the title role in the big budget film Belly Starr (1941). It does not make pretensions of accuracy but success and increase Hollywood's interest in character. In three equally fictional treatments, Isabel Jewell plays Starr in Badman Area and Princess Belle Starr both (1946), and Jane Russell takes part in Montana Belle (1952). In 1954, former Miss Utah Marie Windsor plays Starr in the first episode of the syndicated Western television series Jim Davis, Stories of the Century.
- In 1957, Jeanne Cooper, who later became a soap star, plays Belle Starr in an episode of NBA's western series Dale Robertson, Tales of Wells Fargo . In this episode, Starr calls himself "Mrs. Reed." Some say "hanging judge", US District Judge Isaac Parker of Fort Smith, Arkansas, and the episode calls him punish Starr with a relatively short prison sentence at a Detroit prison. In 1960, Ms. Cooper once again plays Belle Starr in an episode of the TV series "Bronco" entitled "Shadow of Jesse James".
- In 1959, Jean Willes portrayed Starr in "Full House" episode "Full House" in front of James Garner, where Joel Gray played Billy the Kid.
- In 1960, Lynn Bari played Belle in the series's premiere episode, "Perilous Passage", from the short-lived NBC West Overland Trail, starring William Bendix and Doug McClure. Guest Robert J. Wilke starred in the same episode as Cole Younger.
- In 1961, Carole Mathews appeared as Belle in "A Bullet for the D.A.", an episode of Death Valley Days , hosted by Stanley Andrews.
- In 1965, Sally Starr, the television host from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, played the character for laughter in The Three Stooges feature The Outlaws Coming.
- In 1968 Elsa Martinelli starred as Belle Starr at The Belle Starr Story, a western spaghetti directed by Lina WertmÃÆ'¼ller.
- In 1977, Florence Henderson appeared as Belle Starr at the Storybook Squares , a version of Hollywood Squares for children.
- Elizabeth Montgomery describes Belle in the 1980 television film Belly Starr created by Hanna-Barbera
- Pamela Reed plays Belle Starr in the 1980 Hollywood movie The Long Riders .
- In 1995, Belle Starr was pictured in season 3 of Dr. Quinn, a Medical Woman, in an episode titled "Baby Outlaws" as a 14-year-old law offender who falls under the care of a good doctor and her family. This episode took place in 1870, when Belle would actually be 22 years old.
- In 2007, independent filmmaker Ron Maxwell selected the movie rights for the 1979 Speer Morgan novel Belle Starr . In the December 2008 edition of Maxwell touted as the upcoming film director, Belle Starr Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture .
- The 2010 film Bass Reeves is a fictional version of the life of lawman Bass Reeves, and also describes Belle Starr.
- In the 2013 Quick Series! A fictional account Belle Starr describes himself as the wife of the deceased protagonist, Sheriff John Henry Hoyle. He is also referenced as a wife to Cole Younger and Sam Starr. Arden Myrin appeared in two episodes as Belle Starr, while Alexia Dox appeared as Pearl Starr as a regular series. A final episode of "The Pinkertons" features Sheila Campbell as Belle Carson, at the beginning of Belle's exploits as a criminal (very fictional, under the name "Belle Starr" as a fantasy persona and an affair with Jesse James in Kansas City).
Literature and music
"Belle Starr In Velvet" by Kenneth D. Scott.
- Woody Guthrie wrote a song called "Belle Starr."
- Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler's 2006 c as told by Jennette S. Scottollaboration All the Roadrunning featuring a song titled "Belle Starr," written by Harris.
- Sissy Spacek wrote the song "Some Small Crime" about Starr and sang it with Levon Helm at The Midnight Special in 1980.
- "Ghost of Belle Starr" is mentioned in Tombstone Blues, on Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited (1965) album. Belle Starr was also mentioned by Dylan in the lyrics of "Seeing The Real You At Last," on the Empire Burlesque album (1985).
- Belle Starr (1979) is the first novel American writer and editor, Speer Morgan.
- The Legend of Belle Starr (1979) is a historical novel by Stoney Hardcastle.
- The unsolved murder of Belle Starr is the basis for the Douglas C. Jones novel, Searching for Temperance Moon (1991). The character based on Pearl Starr, Belle's daughter, is also featured as a brothel owner in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
- The western authors of the pulp J. T. Edson featured Belle Starr in several of his Floating Outfit novels, as the love interest of one of the three main protagonists in the series, Mark Counter. The novel Edson Guns in the Night shows Belle Starr who was killed while pregnant with the son of Mark Counter, after which the Floating Apparel teamed up to catch the killer.
- One of the more typical adaptations of the Belle Starr legend was made by Japanese manga artist Akihiro Ito, who in 1993 created the manga known as Belle Starr Bandits, loosely based on historical figures , facts and events. He has an appearance in Gun Blaze West manga from Nobuhiro Watsuki, as one of Geng J. J. (Jesse James) members. ISBN 3-89885-759-X
- Belle Starr appeared as a caricature in the 1995 album Belly Starr from the Lucky Luke comic series, illustrated by Morris and written by Xavier Fauche.
- The 2009 historical novel, Branch and Scaffold by Loren D. Estleman, relates to Belle Starr's life in the Indian States because of the way across from Judge Isaac Parker.
- The historical fiction of Peter Mattheissen (Murder of the Mr. Watson Trilogy, and now Shadow Country) combines the story of E.J. Watson killed Belle Starr.
- American rock band, Rival Sons, composed a song titled "Belle Starr" on their album Great Western Valkyrie.
- American country singer Michael Martin Murphey sang about Belle Starr's life in a song titled "Belle Star" on his album "Cowboy Songs III: Rhymes of the Renegades"
References
Further reading
- Shirley, Glenn. Belle Starr and Her Times: The Literature, the Facts and the Legends . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982, ISBN 0-8061-2276-5.
External links
- Belle Starr from the Texas Online Handbook
- Detail biography of Belle Starr
- Belle Starr, Article by Richard D. Arnott
- Belle Starr's esoteric biography in 4dbios
- Belle Starr in Cari Grave
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