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over his face and armed with a toy pistol and a .32-caliber pistol. During the robbery he gave coins to a guard to make up for his lost tips, gave a dollar to a man to pay for his breakfast and bowed to a woman who tried to take his gun from him. He held up two more trains over the next two months.
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who shot him through the lung while capturing him, necessitating his being carried down from the cabin strapped to the back of a pack horse. Following surgery to remove the bullets in his lung and hand and a 33-day stay in hospital he returned to
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in his pocket; he decided the quickest way to obtain cash was to hold up a train. Carlisle robbed his first train in
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shipment of shirts. He again robbed a train on
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