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Catch the bandit and save his image, and now hume thinks he s has his man. >> ill be, the infamous black bart. >> aint me. i was released from san quinnton just yesterday. >> got some release papers. >> narrator: hume is described a pitbull and blood hound, hes a relentless tracker determined to get his man. but hes overworked -- >> uh, sir, it appears to be true. he was locked up during the robberies. >> narrator: in a rush to judgment, hume has gotten the wrong man. >> hume catches other guys,...

>> i believe he hyou have something coming from beneath your hairline. >> oh, no, its perfectly fine. would you please excuse me. >> mr. bolton,>> living a double life is difficult. >> i am sorry. >> mr. bolton. >> it is only a matter of time. >> mr. bolton. hold it right there. >> before his secret is uncovered.

Mark fx 07. and knows this was in fact the laundry mark. >> good day, sir. >> bowles revenge has long been satisfied. now his greed is turning to arrogance. >> after the last robbery i walked over 100 miles to sacramento, got a new suit of clothes and came back to the city. returning to my accustomed way. >> hume is feeling the pressure from wells far go, why cant you get this guy? you are the great james hume. >> he lifted modern equivalent of $1 million from the wells fargo coaches. what black...

The kind of person who would never quit. he has an obsessive-compulsive kind of desire to make things right. >> this is the beginning of this detective period when theres a robbery, you dont just get out there and look for horse tracks, it gets much more sophisticated. >> this is a bullet that i pulled from his body. you see the markings on it? >> technology is starting to change as to how to track these guys down. and this is what humes is really adept at. >> school board. >> narrator: because ...

>> are you going back to your life of robbing stage coaches? >> no. i am giving up my life of crime. >> are you going to go back to poetry. >> did you hear me, son, i said i am done committing crimes. >> charles e bowls, bolton, black bart, tp spalled, whenever his name it endears him to the west. one man rejects the notion of a gentlemen bandit or highway poet. >> aside from the criminal manner of the pending livelihood his career has been entirely and completely despicable. >> when he is relea...

Valuable, his handkerchief. the code is signed to a customer name, address and occupation. >> this man must be found. >> we are going to have to track this lun dre mart. >> take your men and leave no stone unturned. >> they go to 93 different laundries in the san francisco area. >> yes, sir, can i help you? >> yes. that ear -- your mark? >> yes, thats our mark from one of our customers. >> eat both in a local gold prospect. >> hume and his detectives come up with a plan. >> the gentlemen that kn...

♪ >> i had a premonition that this would happen today. arent you the lucky one. >> charles bolton wanted them to know that it was him, and to be able to tease and to play with the people that have been chasing him and trying to get assists it gave him pleasure. you do want him to know. >> on november 17th, 1883, the west most notorious stage coat bandit is sentenced to 6 years in san quinton. he is signs in as another alias tp spaulding. after serving four years without incident he is out on g...

Mr. bolton. mr. bolton. hold it oo hold it right there. >> what can i do for you, officer? oo a person was making off with your coat. >> excellent work. excellent work. thank you very much, officer. >> i was never really afraid of the police officers. i knew many of them. they knew me to be a man associated with good people. i never dream -- they never dreamed i was in the business of hopping stages. >> hume is making a little prress so far go sends in reinforcements. even the toughest and sma...

Home camp to ascertain the exact time they pass. i found them to be at the same spot every morning at 7:00 a.m. >> boles comes up with a clever way to pull off a non-violent highway robbery. its called a breaker cannon trick. used in the revolution and civil wars, that is name for the quakers. who like boles oppose violence. the trick uses strategically placed sticks, made to look like guns. to fool the enemy into believing theyre facing a force much larger than they actually are. >> narrator: c...

>> boles was thrilled. his plan for retribution against wells fargo was being carried out the way that he intended. there was probably a level of bra va toe here, such that he ft attempt. >> narrator: boles makes his next getaway over the mountains back to san francisco. where a transformation begins. >> charles boles is a truly criminal. he returns to high society to hide in plain sight. he has the ingenuity to avoid capture by developing an alter ego and living within blocks of the target of h...