Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1881 — ANOTHER TRAIN ROBBERY. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER TRAIN ROBBERY.

A. Chicago and Alton Passenger Train Boarded by Outlaws Near Glendale, SIo., and the Passengers Believed of Their Valuables. Kansas City, Mo., Sept 8. Last evening, shortly after 9 o’clock, the ncotning Chicago and Alton passenger train that left Chicago Tuesday at 12:30 was stopped and robbed by a band of robbers three miles east of Independence and fourteen east of Kansas City. The train was flagged and then ten or twelve men entered the cars and robbed the express-car, baggage-master, conductor, Pullman conductor and all the passengers, except in the rear car. The ladies in the sleeping-car, some fifteen in number, were relieved of diamond earrings, rings, watches and money. They pot about $2,500 from the passengers, and it is thought about the same amount from the express safe. The express messenger, H. A. Fox, was terribly beaten over thb head with a revolver, and at last gave up the keys to the safe, and the robbers took all the contents. When they entered the Pullman car, five in number, all were masked, and while one held an opon bag or each person was relieved of his or which were thrown indiscriminately into the bag. The car conductor, J. J. Prico, lost his watch and chain and SIOO. J. M. Hazelbacber, the train conductor, Tan through the train, alarming all passengers, and telling them that the robbers were on board, and then ran back and flagged a freight-train, running very close. He then came back to the train, and was at once searched, but had thrown his watch into the ladies’ closet, andsothoygot nothing. One of the robbers poked a revolver into his face, and said, “ That is the pistol that killed Westfall, on the Rock Island road, and it will kill you if you stir.” The same man said he was Jesse James, and that they robbed the Alton train because it had joined with the Rock Island and others to capture the outfit. He also said they would burn the cars and bridges if an organized pursuit was made. Another man in the gang also said ho was Jesse James, and, after robbing the engineer, Choke Foote, gave him back $2 and told him, when he reached Kansas City, to go and get a drink and quit railroading out in this section, or he would be killed the next time. The robbers talked all the time and all wore white masks. Borne had hats on, and some tiad not, but all wore long dusters. They were armed with shotguns, old-fashioned blunderbusses and pistols, and had on high-top boots and farmers’ clothes. The place where the robbery took place is in a deep cut, near where the Missouri Pacifio track crosses it, and the country is hilly and well wooded, and just suitable for such a robbery. It is only a few miles from Glendale, where the Alton train was robbed in 1879, by Jesse James and gang, when they secured $15,000. As soon as the robbers had pone through all the passengers, they told the engineer to pufl out, and said : “Goodnight. This is the last of the James boys’ gang.’’ T. F. or Frank Burton, the brakeman, made the following statement of tne robbery: He said : “ I was standing on the front platform of the sleeper when the train stopped, and I hoard voices and oaths on the back platform. I said, in a moment: ‘We are going to be robbed.’ Then one of the robbers cried out: ‘ We aro coming in and going through you all.’ “I remembered that the freight train was just behind us, and I heard it coming up. I jumped off and ran with my lantern down the track. They commenced shooting at me. The bullets whistled all around me and stfuck the rails and stones. They must have fired twenty-fivo shots. The engineer said: ‘ For God’s sake don’t shoot the boy. He is saving the lives of these peoplo.’ Then one of them threw up his arms and cried : ‘ iStop shooting !’ I rolled into the cut and waved my lantern. “The freight train was stopped only a oarlength off. When I came back the robbers said: 1 Have you lost anytning ? ’ I answered: ‘Fifty cents.’ He said: 4 Show me the and I will kill him.’ He gave me $1.50 for interest. Then I heard one of the robbers say to the engineer: ‘ Choppy Foote, you are too good a man to keep up this business. Hero’s $2 to buy a drink in the morning, and to drink it for Jesse James.’ “I warn you you’ll be killed if you don’t leave* this road. We are going to tear up and bust the Alton and Rock Island roads, for they’ve been offering rewards for us. We’ve no grudge against the Pullmans, and we’ll switch off their oars and burn the rest. I am the man who killed Westlake at Winston. He was too smart, and drew a revolver.” Burton did not believe it was Jesse James, or any of his gang. They all acted green at the business, and he thought they were men living in the vicinity. Thoy made no attempt to disguise thoir voices.

LATER NEWS ITEMS. A Kansas City dispatch says that six of the Glendale train-robbers have been captured. They prove to be young farmers living in the immediate vicinity of the outrage, and the idea that the James brothers were in the raid has been quite generally abandoned. Matt Chapman gave to a Sheriff the names of the robbers, and has himself been placed in jail at Independence as a witness. Rev. Dr. H. W. Thomas, of Chicago, who has for several days been under investigation as a heretic, has been found guilty on all the charges, and will be deprived of fellowship in the Methodist church until he can bo formally tried at the annual conference at Sycamore. IIL Fort Smith, Ark., was the scene of a wholesale execution on Friday, Sept 9. Amos and Abner Manly, Creek Indians, aged respectively 19 and 20, and William Brown, George Vf 4 Padgett and Patrick McGowan, white men, were hanged for murders committed at various dates during tho past two years in tho Indian Territory. Tho condemned had been hoping for Presidential clemenoy, but Attorney General MacVeagh telegraphed that nothing could be done for them. Tulwahacgo, a Seminole Indian, found guilty of murder and sentenced to hang, was granted a respite. A railroad accident ner Anchorage, Ky., killed seven persons and injured many others, among them Alexander H. Alford, an attorney of Louisvillo. The members of the Cabinet have summoned their Secretary to Long Branch, which will be the seat of government until the President is deemed out of danger. A Senatorial friend of Vice President Arthur says he would refuse to act at tho request of President Garfield, but would return an answer that Congress should be convened to devise temporary relief. The San Francisco municipal elections resulted in favor of the Republicans, tho majorities ranging from 2,000 to 8,000. Some 4,000 soldiers with thirty pieces of artillery surrounded the Khedive’s residence at Cairo recently. They demanded the assembling of the Notables and the dismissal of all the Khedive’s Ministers. The Khedive granted what was demanded by tho troops, and appointed Cherif Pasha Chief Minister.