Outlaw Billy Thompson

a member of the Hough-Lowry Gang : see timeline that includes clippings"

• Plumas County Bulletin (Greenville, California); 16 Mar 1887, Wed., Page 3 (in hiding)
• Plumas County Bulletin (Greenville, California) 29 Feb 1888, Wed., Page 3
• The Weekly Courier (San Bernardino, California); 14 Nov 1891, Sat., Page 2 Redding mail carrier robbed by Jones & Howard
• Plumas County Bulletin (Greenville, California), 24 Dec 1891, Thu., Page 3 (on the 'good' side of the law, collects ransom for the capture of Jones; paper reports "desperate chances", which wasn't the case at all)
• San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, California); 30 Jan 1892, Sat., Page 10 Jones Wiiliam is 'innocent')
• Feather River Bulletin (Quincy, California) 30 Aug 1894, Thu Page 3 (hanged in Lake Co.)

The so-called Hough-Lowry gang

• Outlaw Billy Thompson ~> pulled out of a Lake County Oregon jail and lynched
• Charles Hough, outlaw ~> shot by a sheriff
• Outlaw Jeff Lowry ~> escaped death and lived a long life

and other seedy characters:

• Outlaw Abe Jones
• Outlaw George Jones
• Outlaw Bill Howard
• Outlaw Tex Vore
• Virgil Howard

The "Harney Boys"

for Harney OR, were a sort of overlapping gang consisting of

• Abe Jones (and I suppose his brother George)
• Bill Howard (shot dead evading capture)
• Jack Rice, who turned States evidence
• Virgil Howard