Three-Finger Jack was mortally wounded in the heist and a few miles from Fairbank his pals left him to die along the trail. The outlaws went away that evening empty-handed. He caught a load in the seat of his pants. Bravo Juan saw it coming and just had enough time to turn around. Three-Finger Jack was in the lead and he caught a load of buckshot in his mid-section. Thinking he was dead the bandits raced towards open door. His gunfighter instincts took over and he grabbed a Wells Fargo shotgun. Seriously wounded, Milton fell back inside the car behind a trunk. ![]() Posing as drunken cowboys the bandits opened fire on Milton as he stood in the open door of the mail car as it pulled into the station. The heist was thwarted by famous ex-Texas Ranger Jeff Milton, who was riding in the express car that day as messenger for Wells Fargo. ![]() The train station was the scene of a sensational attempted train robbery on February 15 th, 1900 by five outlaws led by Three-Finger Jack Dunlap and Bravo Juan Yoas, all members of the Burt Alvord gang. ![]() It was the closest rail link to the boom town of Tombstone, at the time one of the largest cities in the West. The railroad arrived in what became Fairbank in 1881.
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