THREE FINGERED JACK DUNLAP On July 17, 1897 Burt Alvord accepted a fulltime appointment as constable in Willcox. It was a fun job that suited him well, but he was having difficulty making ends meet. He and Billy Stiles decided to branch out into train robbery. They put together a gang of toughs and planned the robbery of a train at Cochise Station a few miles west of Willcox. The robbery was success, but it didn’t exactly put them on Easy Street. After the booty was divvied up the gang dispersed. Another train robbery was planned but a new gang of toughs was needed. For the new gang Alvord and Stiles recruited Bravo Juan Yoas, Bob Brown, George and Lewis Owens, and Three Fingered Jack Dunlap. The targeted train rolled into the station at Fairbank, near
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