Van Buren Press Van Buren, Arkansas -Crawford County 1890 Van Buren Press February 1, 1890 Jim Starr, the notorious horse thief and desperado, who was shot nine miles from Ardmore, I. T., last Tuesday week by a posse of Deputy United States Marshal Heck Thomas, died in the United States jail at Fort Smith Monday night of his wounds. Jim sprang into prominence as a criminal and desperado about two years ago, when he became the third husband of the notorious Belle Starr, and has since made quite a record as a horse thief and all-around criminal. Fran Alverson Warren