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Blog Ciity Prompt November 3, 2023

Friday
November 3, 2023
10:30 AM


Prompt: On November 3rd Black Bart makes his last stagecoach robbery. I've included the link if you're needing some inspiration. If you lived in the 1800's and wanted to commit a robbery, what kind of robbery would you commit and where do you think it would be ideal to commit your crime? Or maybe you'd rather be like Stagecoach Mary the daring black woman who protected stagecoaches instead of choosing a life of crime. Have fun and remember the minimum is five lines to be counted. Maybe you'll be inspired.

The way I would commit a robbery in 1777 is to go to the theatre. The theatre you ask? Why there? At that time, the wealthy had their own private theatres where they watched plays, listened to opera, and other offerings. At the time Black Bart was doing his thing with stagecoaches, the rich were going to their theatres. There were a few with toilets available to the audience. I would station myself in that area and offer to hold the women's reticules (handbags) as they did their business. I would lift their money, return it to them before they walked back out the door, and be long gone before they would discover their loss. I would never get caught and retire to live out my days in warm and sunny Florida.

Black Bart robbed at least twenty-eight stagecoaches from 1877-1883. He was afraid of horses so did his thievery on foot. He was caught and served a prison term at San Quentin. At two of his robberies, he left a poem. Here they are:

‘Once I toiled for gold in ditches,
Now with ease I amass riches,
Daniel; now I’m on this lay,
I’ll come against another day.'”



‘Daniel, it grieves me to say it,
Next time you attempt to play it,
Buy an overcoat of pine,
And I’ll send the corpse in time.’”