He was born in 1881 and began his career as a teenager, rustling cows and horses along the Oklahoma strip.
By the late 1890's he had formed a small band and was robbing banks in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. In 1903, Starr shot and killed a Judge Isaac Parker deputy, Floyd Wilson and was sentenced to hang by the "Hanging" Judge.
The sentenced was reversed by appeals. Judge Parker, not to have his judgement over turned, retried Henry again for the same crime and again sentenced him to hang.
This time President Theodore Roosevelt intervined and pardon the hapless Starr.
On the loose again, Starr, "Kid" Wilson and three others held up a Bentonville, Arkansas bank. A possee found Henry and Wilson in the Cafe Royal in Colorado Springs. Both were sent to the State Penitentiary.
Starr earned his release in 1908 and resumed his chosen career. Then he had an idea to use automobiles instead of horses to rob banks, when most law officers were still on horses. Henry knew they could easily out distance them. The idea worked and it changed the operations of bank robbery from then on.
After a Harrison, Arkansas bank robbery in 1921, a possee caught up to Henry in their automobiles when his broke down. Starr was killed during the gun battle.
It is believed that during the span of the late 1890's to 1921, there had been over forty-eight men in Starr's gang.
An impressive profolio for whom most 1920 and 1930 outlaws would have considered an old timer.
