Black Jack Ketchum (1)

Thomas “Black Jack” Ketchum, leader of a notorious band of train robbers, was wounded seriously in August 1899 while trying to rob a train near Folsom. He was captured and taken to Trinidad, Colorado. Nursed back to health, he was tried and convicted under a law making train robbery a capital offense, and then hung in Clayton on April 26, 1901, where he is buried.