Henry Starr
Henry Starr was an American criminal of the wild west and an American actor of the silent film era.Biography
Starr was a horse thief and train robber. Distantly related to Sam Starr, husband of Belle Starr, he was the last in a long line of Starr family criminals.
Starr was tried for the murder of Deputy U.S. Marshal Floyd Wilson in 1893. Twice sentenced by Judge Isaac Parker to hang for murder, following a series of appeals and Starr's confrontation with Cherokee Bill, who was attempting a prison break, his sentence was reduced to a sentence of imprisonment for manslaughter. Starr was eventually granted a Presidential pardon and released.
Starr went on to form a notorious gang that terrorized and robbed throughout northwest Arkansas around the start of the 20th century.
He was imprisoned again in 1915, wrote his memoirs and, released on parole, even portrayed himself in the silent film, A Debtor to the Law. While attempting to rob a bank in Harrison, Arkansas, in 1921, he was shot by the bank president W. J. Myers with a.38 caliber rifle, and later died of his wounds.
