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Webmaster's note. This report references one or more of the enduring lies that the inept horse thief and train robber Thomas Vernon told about himself: that he was "Buffalo" Tom, the rodeo star; and that he was Thomas Averill, the fantasy love child of Jim Averill and Cattle Kate. He was neither.
ACME wire photo, 6½x8½ inches, distributed by Newpaper Enterprise Association, to accompany story about the apprehension of the fugitive Tom Vernon, wanted for train robberies in Saugus, Calif., and Cheyenne, Wyo. (Wire photo went out Dec. 3, 1929; Vernon was captured Dec. 1, 1929.) Cutline reads:
SF BUREAU | AIRMAIL | CLEVE | NY ACME | DEC. 3, 1929
Tom Vernon, ex-cowboy and circus performer, and former convict, has been arrested at Pawnee, Okla., charged with wrecking and robbing the passengers on a Southern Pacific train near Los Angeles, and a Union Pacific train near Cheyenne, Wyo., identification being claimed through showing this photograph to robbery victims. Vernon is said to be the son of a couple lynched as horsethieves, the mob also lynching the boy. Indians cut him down before he was dead, and raised him. He learned locomotive firing while a convict in Folsom Prison, Calif., and is said to have served at least five prison terms in California, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Wyoming and California authorities are reported engaged in a battle to be the state allowed to extradite him from Oklahoma for trial. California won the fight for extradition. 
LW2982: 9600 dpi jpeg from original photograph purchased 2017 by Leon Worden.
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Passengers / Earliest Known 11-10-1929
Daybreak 11-11-1929
Newsreel Footage
Loren Ayers x5
Boynton Story
Pollack Story
LAT 11-11-1929
Vernon Captured
Mugshots 12/1929
Extradition 12-12-1929
AP 12-19-1929
REAL: Tom Vernon Prison Records
REAL: Horse Theft 1920
BOGUS: Tom Vernon Letters 1929-1963
BOGUS: Tom Vernon's Fake Photo ID 1962
BOGUS: Vernon's Own Story in 3 Parts
BOGUS: Cattle Kate Story 12-7-1929
BOGUS: Vernon Retells Story in 1953
BOGUS: Sweetwater Incident 1967
BOGUS Sideshow: Lester F. Mead
'Confessor' 11-1929
REAL: Buffalo Vernon 1884-1939
1957-1958 x3
Pardon 1964
Death Cert. 1967
After the Wreck
No. 5042 x3
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