Rube Burrow

Rube Burrow, the "Robin Hood of Alabama," was an outlaw whose robbery of a train near Pollard in Escambia County in 1890 led to a chase through Monroe and Marengo counties, ending in his death. Burrow and his cohorts robbed a number of trains across the South during the 1880s, garnering him fame and notoriety before his death by gunfire.