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LOS ANGELES . The notorious Old West outlaw Butch Cassidy may have survived to old age and lived out his years peacefully under an assumed name, according to a new theory. Most scholars believe that the train and bank robber died in a shootout in Bolivia in 1908. His death was depicted by Hollywood in the classic 1969 Western film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. But according, to the latest argument, Cassidy escaped and returned to the United States, moving to Spokane in Washington state, where he worked as a machinist called William T. Phillips and died in 1937. The improbable theory stems from a 200-page manuscript written by Phillips and titled Bandit Invincible: The Story of Butch Cassidy. In it the writer claimed to have been a childhood friend of the outlaw and recounts some of his exploits, stating he had never met “a more courageous and kinder-hearted man”. The manuscript appeared to be a biography but, according to Brent Ashworth, a rare book collector from Utah, and Larry Pointer, a Montana author, it may have been a disguised autobiography and Phillips may have in fact been Cassidy. Some descriptions fit details of Cassidy’s life too neatly to have come from anyone else, Mr. Ashworth claims. Those include an account of the outlaw’s meeting with a judge in prison in February 1895. Phillips records that Cassidy refused to shake hands with the judge and said: “I must tell you now that I will even my account with you, if it is the last act I ever do.” Wyoming’s state archives contain an 1895 letter written by the judge which appears to confirm the incident. It relates how Cassidy seemed to hold “ill-will” and did not accept the “friendly advances” of the judge in prison. Mr. Pointer said: “Who else would have remembered it in that kind of detail, about an offer of a handshake and refusing it in a prison in Wyoming in 1895?” However, Dan Buck, a Cassidy historian, called the theory “total horse pucky” and said the manuscript “doesn’t bear a great deal of relationship to Butch Cassidy’s real life, or Butch Cassidy’s life as we know it.” Historians more or less agree Cassidy was born Rob-ert LeRoy Parker in 1866 in Beaver, Utah, the oldest of 13 children in a Mormon family. He robbed his first bank in 1889 in Telluride, Colo., and fell in with cattle rustlers who hid out at The Hole in the Wall, a refuge in northern Wyoming’s Johnson County. He left the area before cattle barons hunted down the rustlers. Cassidy then served 18 months in Wyoming Territorial Prison in Laramie, Wyo., for possessing three stolen horses. But for most of the next 20 years, his Wild Bunch Gang held up banks and trains across the West and in South America. Mr. Pointer said the earliest documentation of Phillips was his marriage to Gertrude Livesay in Adrian, Mich., in 1908, three months after Cassidy’s last known letter from Bolivia. In 1911, the couple moved to Spokane. However, Mr. Buck insists they married several months before a documented Bolivian shootout that probably was the one in which Butch and Sundance were killed. In 1911, the Phillipses moved to Spokane, where their closest friends said years later Phillips let them in on a secret: He was the famous outlaw. In the 1930s, Philipps visited central Wyoming, where more than a few people in the Lander area, including one of Cassidy’s old girlfriends, said it was Cassidy who spent the summer of 1934 camping out in the Wind River Range, telling tales about the Wild Bunch and digging holes in search of buried loot. “All of these people were bamboozled by this faker from Spokane?” Mr. Pointer asked. “These weren’t hayseed, duped ignorant people. These were pillars of our community. And if they said something, you had to better take it seriously.” Years later friends of Phillips claimed that he did claim to be Cassidy. His adopted son, William R. Phillips, believed his stepfather was Butch Cassidy, said Mr. Pointer, who interviewed him in the 1970s. William R. Phillips has since died. But in 1938, after her husband died of cancer, Gertrude Phillips told a Cassidy researcher she and her husband had known Cassidy but that Phillips was not him. She did so only because she “didn’t want the notoriety,” Mr. Pointer said William R. Phillips told him. DNA testing is unlikely to determine Phillips, who was cremated, was Cassidy. I watched one of my favorite films last night, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, so I was pretty pumped when I got to work and on the cover of the National Post had the above photo and article. I guess it was a slow news day? But it made my day.
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Butch Cassidy ipak nije poginuo? Do sada se smatralo kako su slavni pljačkaš i njegov partner Sundance Kid navodno su poginuli prilikom pokušaja pljačke vlaka u Boliviji, gdje ih je ubila tamošnja policija Iako se već više od stoljeća smatra kako je zloglasni pljačkaš američkog Divljeg zapada, Butch Cassidy, poginuo u razmjeni vatre s policijom 1908. godine, britanski mediji tvrde kako je nedavno otkriven rukopis koji tvrdi da je slavni kriminalac doživio duboku starost, piše Hina. Robert LeRoy Parker (1866.-1908.), poznatiji kao Butch Cassidy, bio je zloglasni pljačkaš banaka i vlakova, vođa još zloglasnije bande "Wild Bunch Gang" koja je 20 godina harala američkim Divljim zapadom. On i njegov partner Sundance Kid navodno su poginuli prilikom pokušaja pljačke vlaka u Boliviji, gdje ih je ubila tamošnja policija. No, kolekcionar Brent Ashworth i pisac Larry Pointer tvrde da novootkriveni rukopis knjige "Bandit Invincible: The Story of Butch Cassidy" (Nepobjedivi pljačkaš: priča o Butchu Cassidyju) iz 1934., dvostruko duži od već poznate neobjavljene novele istoga naslova autora Williama T. Phillipsa, strojara koji je preminuo 1937., otkriva pojedinosti koje je mogao znati jedino sam Cassidy. To, tvrde, dokazuje da je možda riječ o autobiografiji mudro zaogrnutoj u formu povijesnog romana te da je sam Phillips ustvari bio legendarni odmetnik. Autor knjige tvrdi da je osobno poznavao Cassidya te priznaje da je promijenio imena ljudi i nazive mjesta. No, Ashworth tvrdi da je neke pojedinosti iz Cassidyjeva života mogao znati samo on osobno poput, primjerice, kako je tekao sastanak sa sucem u zatvoru u veljači 1895. Rukopis ima holivudski završetak. Nakon što ih je zaskočila bolivijska konjica prilikom jednog pokušaja pljačke vlaka, Sundance je ubijen a Butch bježi u Europu, gdje se u Parizu podvrgava plastičnoj operaciji i planira za povratak u SAD i ponovni susret s bivšom djevojkom u Wyomingu. Kako ipak većim dijelom prepričava događaje koji nemaju puno toga zajedničkog s poznatim Cassidyjevim podvizima, Pointer smatra da je Cassidy, uzevši Phillipsov identitet, pisao fikciju. Svoj je uradak ponudio časopisu Sunset ali nije uspio privući pozornost.