COATESVILLE, Pa.. June 19 (AP)—William L. (Wild Bill) Carlisle, the “Robin Hood of the Rails,” who was one of the last train robbers of the West, died today of cancer at the home of a niece, Mrs. Hilda Cammie, who had cared for him for the last 10 weeks. He was 74 years old.

Carlisle robbed his first train in 1916 when he was 25. He robbed three more, and was sent to prison for life in. Wyoming. He was paroled in 1936 and led such an exemplary life that he received a full par‐don in 1947.

But his legend lived on — the legend of a polite gunman with This face masked by a white handkerchief, forcing a trainman to pass the hat, but telling the passengers that women and children need not contribute.

Carlisle so harassed the Union Pacific railroad that thousands of dollars were of‐fered for his capture. A Denver lawyer, Fred Mazzulla, who makes a hobby of studying ban- dits, says Carlisle's escapades netted only $1,023.32.