Less than a month after he and his gang robbed the Katy Limited, a mail train (and the last train robbery in the history of his home state of Oklahoma), bandit Al Spencer was gunned down on the Osage Indian Reserve.
Spencer got his start in crime by rustling cattle and stealing horses, he soon gained notoriety as a "motorized bandit" who began picking off banks. Always retreating to the Osage hills. After the train robbery, a bounty of $10,000 dead or alive was placed on his head. A posse of U.S. marshals along with a postal inspector worked in tandem to bring him in, or down.
On the evening of September 15, 1923, the Federal men traced him near the Osage and Washington County lines, about three miles south of the Kansas border. There on a road, at about ten p.m., he was ordered to halt, he fired a shot at his pursuers who then opened up with a rifles. Spencer dropped with three bullets in his chest. It was reported that he had ten thousand dollars worth of bonds on his body when searched.
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