The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-01-05
HOW THEY DID 1T.


TIMoNY OF WITNESSES IN COURT.
The Lesvensworth Times of a late date
gives the manner in which the recent
railroad robbery in that state was consum-
mated: The preliminary examination Of
Will. McDaniels, one of the Kansas Pacific
train robbers, took place at Wyandotte
Monday afternoon. The first witness ex-
amined was John Cloonan, section foreman
on the Kansas Pacific railroad; was working
on the road, when two masked men rode up
to me; asked where the rest OF the Sec
ton hands were; said they were all right
here with me; told US to throw down our
tools, as they were going to rob the train;
one of them pointed his revolver at me, and
said he did not want any of us to move, or
he would blow our brains out; one of them
asked me If knew how 10 throw trai 4 off;
told him no, did not know anything about
it; then he proposed to me to go back after
my tools and tear rail out of the track
at the station; then said thst was a poor
way to stop a train, IA IL would throT
many passengers in The ditch; that we
could flag the train with hat, capo any
thing, and that they were sure TO stop; 1
would guarantee il; In about two or three
minutes one of them told us to come out,
they wanted us to put some rails across the
track, and compelled Us to do so; in the first
place they wanted to know where the engine
stopped when tagged, so as to put the rails
far enough away, so that the en-
CINE would stop before it got there;
one of them pointed q rife ct me
and compelled Us to put two defective rails
aeross-the track and down under the rails at
one end; they then pointed one of the rifles
at me, and told me they would kill me if
did not do wat they told me, and if I did
they would not hurt me. He told us to put
one end of the rail under the north side of
the track, and lay the other end of 1t on top
of tie south rail, and the other under the
south rail and on top of the north rail on the
track; after they went took the obstruc-
ton of the track; the train could not pass
until they were taken off; the men were all
masked; l could not describe any OF them.
WHIT. Z. BARNARD
testified as follows: Am a fireman; saw
several men there; some strangers were do
ing one thing and some another; one of
them had charge of me; these men were
masked; L saw five masked men at first; /
expect they were making arrangements to
rob tho train; | can not describe the man
that took me off the train and guarded me
better than any of the rest; be was a man
about five feet eleven or six feet high not
q very heavy man, but one that would
weigh $50 pounds: had mask on; noticed
in particular how he was shaved through
the mask; he had chin whiskers; had
q
used for carbines in the army; he had
a navy revolver in his right hand and one
on his left hip, and q carbiDe; had hat on
and long coat; L saw FIVE masked men;
could not swear that they were all armed
when he came in; saw them with arms in
their hands afterward; zone man stood at
the left side of the engine when got off to
the ground; three of them stood there when
Murphy and got of the engine; be took
charge of me; can't swear positively that
have seen that man eince; my opinion is
that have; saw MIN first in Kansas City,
then in the Kansas City Jail. then at the
state line on the train, then in this court;
the defendant here is the man.
Al. PULLEM
testified: reside four miles from here be-
tween here and Muncie; was at home on the
Sth, cutting out a fence row on the south
end OF the place; about o'clock five men
came riding up from towards the bridge, GO
ing toward Muncie; saw the same five men
going back the same way they came, about
O'Clock; one of the men looked familiar,
as if 1 had known him some place;
they were armed with rifles, and pistols
each side of them; as he went up he
was on tho side next to me; as they
came back he was on the other Side of the
road; think have seen one of them since
(the one riding on the near side) in Kansas
City and at Atchisop; have seen him in the
courtroom; that gentleman there, the de-
PENDANT, IL the one who rode on the side
next me, going up.
Here the case rested, and the defendant
declined to offer any evidence. In default
of bail, the mammoth sum of So, COO. the
defendant was remanded to the custody of
the sheriff of Douglass county, where he will
remain until january Is.