Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-02-06

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tor; tl5 in money, ring valued at
$50, and PIN valued at 800, from
lW. A. McLanan; ~ from James
johnson, porter Of the sleeping car;
$40 from the train boy, and $50
from me. They took my watch,
but the baggagemen said, For
Gods sake, don't take his watch, it
was present to him. and the cap
tain ordered them to give it back.
They seemed to be
UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE CAP
TAIN,
and gave the watch back to me-"
"Did they get anything from the
citizens Of Gadshill?"
"They took $500 and a rifle, from
one man, and l did not hear Of any
other. We had a member of the
Legislature on our train whose son
was waiting for him at Gadshill.
He was under guard when we got
there, and / don't know whether he
or his father was robbed or not"
"Did they touch any baggage?"
"No, they did not stop for that.
Mr.. Morley, our chief engineer was
on the train, and he expostulatcd
with them, but they told him to sit
down and shut his head, and mind
his business.
"rhat was his business, was it
not?"
l think so, and so did he, but
they did not appear to to agree
with him. He asked them to re-
store the property they had stolen,
bnt they showed q pistol under his
nose, and ordered him to keep
quiet. When they took the money
from the express car, one Of them
asked tho express agent for his re-
ceipt book. He gave it up,
AND THE RoRBER WROTE
in it: Robbed at Gadshill.' Said
he: Il think / have had the honor
of writing in this book before The
agent has been robbed five times,
and he thinks this fellow had some
thing to do with it. l shouldn't
wonder if he had. l think they
were all old at the business. When
l thought they had got about
through, 1 asked them if might
60. They said yes, and l sent a
man to shut the northern switch,
and went myself to shut the south
ern. They had bent the rod so that
l had to get board and straighten
it. This took me some time, and in
the meanwhile they made off. They
went in q westerly direction to
where their horses stood, and made
off as fast as they could. Before
they went they shook hands with
the engineer and told him always to
stop when he sees a red flag. He
told them he always did. The en-
gineer is named VIM. Wetton, and
the fireman's name is Campbell. I
don't know his first name. One
thing nearly forgot; before their
departure they wrote out a telegram
for the St. Louis Dispatch, and
gave it to passenger to send
through. They said that paper had
misrepresentcd them ON one occa-
sion, and they wanted it put IN pos
session of all the facts. l telegraph
ed the dispatch to the railway Office
in St. Louis, and an operator took
it off the wire and sent it to the
Republican and Times as spec
ial."
GLOW long had they been waiting
there tor YOU"
! "About two hours. 1t took them
forty minutes to 60 through us, and
in that time they made about
81, 900, besides the money packages
and the $500 they took from the
Gadshill man."
"Have you any clue to the iden-
tity Of the robbers-any theory of
who they arc?"
81 think they are the same gang
that robbed the Hct Springs stage
about two weeks ago, and the Iowa
train some time past. They took
dinner at Moark on Tuesday, and
at Hot Springs on Friday. That is
the only trace Of them we have
now"