Headless Horseman (Centaur)

Golden Age Origin
Betty (Paige) Warren is a woman in the late 1800's Nebraska who disguised herself as a headless ghostly cowboy and with her horse, Black Beauty fought crime in the Wild West.

Before becoming the Headless Horseman, She was a schoolteacher, but frustrated by the rampant crime in the Wild West and decides to do something. So Betty made a particularly tall and broad shirt and puts herself inside it. She can see through the gap in the shirt but it appears to everyone else that the rider is headless.

In her second published adventure, she dealt with Alex Trush, owner of the Bar-X Ranch, and his gang creating a fake Headless Horseman straw dummy to frame the hero for their crimes. However the real Headless Horseman successfully traps the wanted men for the Sheriff to whom they confess their crimes once they are caught.

Golden Age Appearances

 * Amazing Mystery Funnies #19
 * Arrow #2