Van Buren Press - Crawford County, Arkansas February 9, 1889 BELLE STARR ASSASINATED Fort Smith, Ark., February 5.- News reached here last tonight, confirming the report of the assassination of the notorious Belle Starr. She was shot from ambush by unknown parties on the Choctaw side of the Canadian River near her home. Some of the people think there is no truth in the matter and that it was but a ruse to get her husband away from Fort Smith, where he is to answer to a charge of horse stealing. He has several times before put off trials in a similar manner. Fran Alverson Warren