Charles O’Rourke, known Texas cowboy and “speculator”

September 29, 2007

Chief McIlwaine, of the Utica police, is very confident that Charles O’Rourke, alias Roarke, is the masked robber who “held up” Night Agent Barger, of the West Shore Road, on March 14, and shot and robbed Messenger Leake on Wednesday night.

No relation to me. This is from the April 3, 1887 edition of the New York Times. Very cool that they’ve opened up a huge amount of their archives for free. Also cool that I have a kickass murderin’ no-good namesake.