In remote parts of Albany County, Wyoming, passenger trains carrying mail, payroll monies, and express deliveries became targets for bandits. On June 2, 1899, the Union Pacific Overland Flyer No. 1 was flagged down near Wilcox Station east of Medicine Bow, Wyoming, and two masked men boarded the train and ordered the engineer to uncouple the passenger cars. The engine, pulling the express and mail cars, moved two miles farther down the line to where other gang members were waiting. When Union Pacific express messenger Charles Woodcock refused to open the express car, the bandits dynamited the door, nearly knocking him unconscious. After failing to open the safe, they set another charge and miscalculated the amount of dynamite, blowing open not only the safe but also the sides and roof of the express car, then escaped with approximately $50,000.00. The Wilcox robbery was attributed to members of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch Gang, all but one of whom eluded capture for the crime. Another of Wyoming's best-known train bandits was Bill Carlisle, who in 1916 was sentenced to life in prison for robbing three Union Pacific trains. Three years later he escaped from the Wyoming Penitentiary, soon robbed another Union Pacific train near Rock River, Wyoming, was shot in the arm by the brakeman during the robbery, and sustained a second gunshot wound when he was captured. Known for never robbing women, children, and soldiers, Carlisle, called Wyoming's Gentleman Bandit, was returned to prison, paroled in 1936, and pardoned by Governor Lester Hunt in 1947. After his parole, he became a model citizen, married the nurse who had treated his wounds, and made his living as a successful businessman in Laramie, Wyoming.