A disputed photograph of the train robber and outlaw Sam Bass picnick carrying the axe

carrying the axe

Plate taken from Gauguin

was the site of a monastery founded by St Aidan in c635

He started out driving an Austin Seven at Donington Park in the immediate prewar years

and for the short-lived New York Yankees

A disputed photograph of the train robber and outlaw Sam Bass picnick carrying the axeA disputed photograph of the train robber and outlaw Sam Bass, c1877 1878 (1954). Bass is alleged to be the seated figure in the centre. He led a gang that held up a Union Pacific train at Big Springs, Nebraska, on 18th September 1877, stealing $60,000. He was shot in an ambush at Round Rock Texas on 19th July 1878 while scouting the area before a planned bank robbery and died from his wounds the following day. A print from the Pictorial History of