However he had an adventurous side, and drifted down to Texas where he became a cowboy, then eventually ventured up to Oklahoma Territory, where he met Bill Doolin.
On September 6, 1895, Raidler was trailed to a hideout in Oklahoma by Deputy US Marshal Bill Tilghman.
He was released in ill health in 1903, suffering greatly from his gunshot wounds that never completely healed.
Billie became the owner of a cigar store in Woodward, Oklahoma, after prison and married Blanche Whitenack, mother of his daughter, Dollie Radler.
In 1907 he wrote numerous letters to Blanche and Dollie getting mail in Hammon, Oklahoma where they were visiting the Whitenack family and looking for work.