While in Denver, Colorado he joined up with the Soapy Smith gang. After the turn of the Century "Big Ed Burns" was still being arrested in many places from Florida, his home turf of Illinois, California and up to Washington State. He was last heard of in 1918, in fear of dying in an Indiana prison. Footnotes American confidence tricksters Cochise County conflict People extradited within the United States American prisoners and detainees Prisoners and detainees of Illinois 1840s births Year of death missing People from Buffalo, New York People from Joliet, Illinois People from Chicago People from Lake County, Colorado 20th-century deaths