Harry N. Morse
Henry Nicholson Morse (1835-1912), "bloodhound of the far west,"[1] was an Old West lawman. Elected September 2, 1863 served from 1864 to 1878, as the sheriff of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office of Alameda County, California. He was a Republican. He later founded the Harry N. Morse Detective Agency in California. One of his accomplishments was to help (along with his associate James Hume) identify Charles E. Bowles as the perpetrator of the Black Bart stagecoach robberies. Other notable early California outlaws he helped bring to justice include Bartolo Sepulveda, Narrato Ponce, "Red-Handed Procopio, and Juan Soto.[1]
References
- Boessenecker, John. Lawman: the Life and times of Harry Morse, 1835-1912. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1998
- Bill O'Neal, Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters, Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1979, pp. 328–239
- Mitchel P. Roth, James Stuart Olson, Historical Dictionary of Law Enforcement, Westport, Greenwood Press, 2001, p. 82
External links
- Lawman: the life and times of Harry Morse, 1835-1912 Google Book Result
- A Guide to the Henry N. Morse records, 90-84. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno
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