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Short Biography: Belle Starr Or Bandit Queen
Myra Maybelle Shirley, Better known as Belle Starr, or bandit queen was born on February 5, 1948 near Carthage, Missouri to John ”Judge” Shirley and Elizabeth Pennington Shirley. Belle’s mother was a Hatfield who played piano, and her father was a respected member of the community; his library was an attraction to the educated higher class townspeople. Belle attended the Carthage Female Academy, she was very intelligent and known as a famous American outlaw. Belle had 5 brothers and 1 sisters, Preston, Charlotte, John (Bud) Allison, Benton Edwin, Mansfield, and Cravens Shirley, John and Edwin were killed by lawmen. On November 1, 1866 she married James C. Reed who was a member of Quantrill’s Raiders. They had Rosie Lee Pearl (Pearl Younger) …show more content…
Belle and Sam Starr were later charged with horse stealing, a federal offense, and tried before "The Hanging Judge" Isaac Parker 's Federal District Court in Fort Smith, Arkansas and Belle received two six-month terms at the House of Correction in Detroit, Michigan. After this experience Belle Starr became known as the Bandit Queen. In 1886, she escaped conviction on another theft charge, but on December 17, Sam Starr was involved in a gunfight with Officer Frank West. Both men were killed, while her life as an outlaw queen abruptly ended with her husband 's death, in what had been the happiest relationship of her life. Belle was also rumored to have been with Bluford “Blue” Duck who was an outlaw, Jim French, Jack Spaniard, Cole Younger a confederate guerrilla; member of the James-Younger gang and Jim July(Jim Starr). Belle was living in the Choctaw Nation, near the Canadian River, an unknown assassin killed her from ambush with a shotgun. Although many killers have been suggested, two men remain the primary suspects in the murder. One, Edgar Watson, could have killed her for threatening to turn him in to authorities for murder. The second was Belle Starr 's son, Ed, whom she had recently beaten for mistreating her horse. No one was ever convicted.
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