Rufus Minor was born in 1838 in new York to Noble Green Minor and Hannah Johnson.
Here is Inspector Thomas Byrnes Description of Rufus.
I found the following newspaper articles:
1878
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57548754/rufus-minor/
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57549850/rufus-minor/
1880
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57549897/rufus-minor/
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57549033/rufus-minor/
Rufus was married to a Mary, His father had mental issues and took his own life with a razor to his neck in front of his daughter on 21 Aug 1859 in Manhattan, NY. He was a very successful carpenter. Noble also remarried to a Harriet Johnson when Rufus was 11 years old. She might have been his first wife's sister or a relative of some sort.
Rufus took off for England
However, in 1907, William “Billy the Kid” Burke, a bank robber who was then husband to Sophie Lyons, was arrested in Philadelphia after returning from England. Burke and Lyons were said to have made plans to steal from a bank runner at the United States Sub Treasury in Philadelphia; but the Philadelphia Inquirer claimed that the plan had been hatched at Minor’s house in England.
By 1913, other criminals spoke of Minor in the past tense. It is likely he died in England sometime between 1907 and 1912.
Unfortunately at this time there's no record of his death or what happened to his wife.
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