The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-09-25
THE JAMESES AGAIN.
Reported Capture OF One OF the
Famous Outlaws-Robbsry Of the
Union Pacific Plan to ilescu , TIE
YounRers.

A little over year ago. our readers will
remember, the night express train on the
Missouri Pacific was robbed near Otierville.
A. usual all the robbers escaped hut one
and he was novice who allowed himself
Ia be caught The affair created 4 great
stir in our city ut III. time, am! parties
were instantly formed among our ciiizcn~
tn pursue and capture the robbers. ="
there was n mounting in hot haste, and
armed with pistols and shotgunS, some Of our
meekest and most lsmb-like citizens were
suddenly transfer led into the most ferocious
looking brigands that "yaIler covered
literature ever described-but il waS in
looks only. They skirmished around the
neighioring country for i fcw DAYS, until
they got sun burnt, tired and chafe,i, when
they returned home, one by one, perfectly
satisfied ''ihe robbers" were not in the coun-
try. M. they did not meet the outlaws
and it we're we'll, perhaps, the outlaws did
did not meet them.
The leaders 81 that gang were said In he
THE FAMOUS JAMES BROTHERa,
and Cole Younger accompanied by his
brothers Jim and Bob. and Clel MilIer-ail
men whose deeds have formed some ii the
most exciting events in the history Of our
State.
The Mortified Mimi Bank robbery
followed, which suited in the killing ii
,hreeoi the gang aud she capture III Cole
Bob and Jim Younger. The Jame-
brothers were said Ia be with them, but
with their usual < 'od fortune succeeded in
making their escape, one al them with -
wCnn.! in his :eg. Since that event the
whereabouts ofthe James brothers has been
one ii the mys,iiying enigmss which has
puzzled the detective fraternity.
| And now the Jan,Ses re,livivus Is again
the subject 81 sensation, and j. u. Ms.nt-
.on,ery Is the name III the man who de-
clare he has captured one al thcn,, this
time sure. \ special dispatch from Juniaia,
Nebraska, to an Omaha paper, states that
that unusually quiet village was thrown
into quite n fever If excitement ON Satur-
iay last, by the arrival III J {. X. Montgomery
al Sidney, Ncb, who announced that he
was on his Cav from Abilene, Kansas, Ia
Lincoln, Neb Ia obtain requi-i;ion from
Gov tiaIb~r ON the Governor IL Kansas,
for the exiradiiicn al horse thieves Ia
| answer the demands ii justice in Nebraska.
Montgomery. in connection with Capt. W.
{. Human, formerly
STATE SENATOR up THE MISSOURI DISTRICT,
mas bcen engaged IN ireightins from Sidney
To- the Black Hills for several months, and
about the lO,h ii August, while on the
way back to Sidney, from the Hills, they
csmp,d near Red loud. That same night
nine mules and \ mare were stolen from
the abovc named gentlemen. They insti-
tuted Scarrh, but Tor several days they
failed to "s,r.ke = trail" Finally Mont
gomery succeeded in finding n clue To the
direction taken by the thieves, aud at once
started after them. He followed them to
Grand I-lsnl, whese he learned that three
men had driven his stock through that
place abont two weeks previous. lie
Montgomery learned that they had taken
a souiherly direction, aud he continued
his search with all possible haste. Arriv.
ing at Red Cloud, abou, forty mile south
of there. he secured the services I'll Mr.
Max Warner, hputy Sheriff Of Webster
county, and these two men
TRAVELLED NIGHT AND DAY
until they reached Abilene, Kansas, when
they iii. covered that their birds were in
that once wicked city. The next morning.
Montgomery, Warner and the sheriff Of
the county which Abilene j. in arrested the
villains. They did not resist because the
officers had the drop" ON them in the
shape al two double-barreled shot guns,
which were pointed In their direction in an
unpleasant manner. An investigation
proved that Montgomery had the right
parties. and leaving them in the custody Of
the Kansas Sheriff. started Immediately for
Lincoln. Montgomery says that one ii the
men Is certainly one oil the James brothers,
and he can bring positive proof To that Ell
feet, nv Kansas man who saw the outfit
that rubbed a bank IN this county some
months ago. lie saw the one that was shot
in the thigh, and n one OF the thieves nov
in custody Is lame, an,l looks precisely like
the chap who WAS seen Is in Minnesota by this
X ansas man, there Is no doubt in Mont
geometry. mind but that he has
ONE OF THEJANEs BOYS.
This same gang drove twenty six head Of
horses into Gran.i Island, about two months
ago, and there disIo ell of them. Their As
sumed names are rs follows: Joe Sweten.
Samuel Kelley and Chas. Vien. Sweten
is a tine looking fellow, being about six
feet tall, and having light hair aud mus
tsche. Kelley has rrd hair aud beard and
Is rather = rongh looking character. viers
has the marks III cut-ihroat and hoase-
thief written plainly upon his counirnance,
and was considered n desperate character
at Red Cloud Agency, where all three held
forth, and where il Is reported that the
rendezvous Of 4 regular gang Of thieves
IL located.
Last week the Union Pacific express
train was robbed. at n water tank, IL about
80, 900, by n gang Of briesnsis. II Is said
that there are good grounds for believing
tat the robbery was perpeirate,i by a gang
from Southwest Missouri and this vicinity,
headed BY two of the old guerrilIss. The
friends If the three Youngers. now in the
Minnesota Penitentiary for the attempted
robbery nj Mortified, have been planning
Tor several months how to raise fund BY
which the escape al the boys might be
Effected. The Iounges. in their palmy
DAYS, never lacked friends. who shielded
them, and they could always recruit gang
for bank or train robbery, from men
whose GOODNESS of nerve could be relied
on for the periodical raids they made on
banks and railroad trains. Cole Younger
vas the leader, and he picked his men
from score Who were always ready To 70
where he led, aud divide the profits. These
men have been talking about
THE REscrE OF THE BOYS
all summer. and they went 80 far as to
send 4 man to Minnesota q couple of
months ago, to see what could be done.
Ills report was not very encouraging. II
vas simply to the effect that an escape was
impossible unless through the connivsnce
of some guard or Official, aud that could
only be brought about By the use OF money.
Since then il has only been question ~
to the best place and time to strike to get .
good pot. The two men who alone escaped
from the gang Of eight Who venturpd into
Minnesota, passed through Nebra.ks, and
came down through the country, cro-sing
the Union Pacific almost at the identical
spit where the robbery occurred last night.
TShorc> skov o.~.1o thai