The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-01-29

ing, bu, said nothing. He was quietly eS-
,or;ed To seat rear his brother, and soon
bad the satisfaction oi seeing Mr. Frank
Sparks brought in to the same hatbor OF
safety Whs, made the capture ali the
more remarkable Wa the fact that nobody
on the platform except the few trusted, who
We're in the plot. seemed To be aware OF /
what had happened, 50 quietly had every +.
thing been done. Nobody knew the cap |
tors, snd Waters and Temple were too well |
known for their presence to create su-pi !
cion.
80 THE BOYS WERE TAKEN IN.
They were for obvious reasons kept on the
run- ior little while. Fir-t they were
taken to Oiney, and returning on the next
train passed Seymour at hali-pa>t three in
the incoming. From Seymour to Laurence
burg. thence to Indianapolis, and from In
,.ianapolis to l.awrencebuFs again, where
they were ru, in Jail. Meanwhile the
house OF the family at Seymour was care
iul!y inspected, and much curious loot
d:>coverei-a quantily Of Government
powder, evidently taken from 'hxed' artil-
iery ammunition, riculls ior making hall
dollars, and miscellaneous 10, OF stuff,
mO-,iy stolen.
From Lawrcnceburg the captives were
brought 10 Brownstown for preliminary
hearing, and here the Express Company
played a sharp game ON the boys by retain
ing in lis tehalf one Jason Brown, an atiOr-
rey al that place. who had aforetime re-
lieved the boys from many dubious
scrape. Preliminary examination was
waived and the boys committed to Jail
about the 18th OF October, 1866. And now
cones in the first curious hitch in this his
tory. While standing in the court room
John Reno called To his side Sheriff
Wahmsley and peremptoriiy ordered him
to find bail ior himself and brothers. The
detectives impiored the Sheriff to do no
such thing, but the latter was pretty we'll
TODD. and being afraid his little property
would be DESTROYED ii he refused the request,
he went Oh the R-nos' bond to the tune Of
some $4,000. Subsequently, indictments
were found against all the accusej-which
indictments are pending yet-but the birds
had flown.
! Frank and Sim Reno went To Canada
| for recreation, il may be presumed, but
Jack and Sparks being Ins:nstriously in
clined. during the following winter got
their work in at Galla,in, No. Certain
friends OF theirs had "located" the County
Treasurer's safe, and it was visited" to the
amount Of over $4,000. There was a hot
pursuit and near Indianapolis the re-
houbtab.e Jack was cornered and caught.
Sparks escaped. but Jack stood trial at
Gallatin, and was generously awarded by j
Jury oi his peers n sentence OF forty years
in the PEN, which the Judge reduced TO
twenty FIVE. and since that time Mr.. Jack
Reno has been a u.einl inmate OF the indus
trial school for adults at Jefferson City.
THE M,RsHFIELD HAUL
The next job IN which the gang figured
was in Iowa. In March. ls6S. the County
Treasurer's Office Of Mills county. Iowa, al
Sidney, wis robbed OF several thousand
dollars. The robbers then stole hand car
bv some sportsmen, or parties seeking LOST
cattle, to be working their way to Council
Bluff. At Council hluils, Frank Reno
Joe Miller, alias Rittenhouse, Charl,,
J Dean. alias "Miles Ogle," and Mike
, Rogers, were all seen To- go into Rogers
, house. The rumors OF the Sidney robbery
, had the effect Of calling attention to ths
strangers, and n descent was made on the
4 a AL. A. 10 kHo, ,roro JiviIsns
D the spoils, To prevent conviction, much o.
. the plumber was put into stove am
burnt, but the whole party reposed in Sid
new Jail before night. On the lst OF Apri
] the captives made a grand celebration by
keeping up most diabolicsl racket, sing
ing, shouting, swearing, anu so on, which
thew explained to the Tailor was their wa,
! of keeping April Fools Day, a remark til,
J per,iuency Of which the Sheriff failed Il
: relish, when the morning broke and foun'
e them gone-to Canada as the ssque
u. showed.
In due course Of time the gang were NJ
: to their old tricks, and pretty close to thei
r old stamping ground, too. In the earl.
. summer OF 1868, not long after Jack hat
been consigned to the tender care Of tn
Penitentiary folks, the other brothers IN,
> and sailed down on the Adams express ca
O attached to train on the ]. NJ. and Road
near the Mansfield water tank. The,
detached the car from the rest Of the train
e ran il ahead to convenient point, mean
j. while pitching of the express messenger
n spot where rocks were plenty. ADOu
" S95. 200 we're taken in all on this occasion
and "a successful escape was once NOR
wI,xS
out was rendered temporarily insane by hi
fall, but he recovered in time to identify
!, his assailants. Once more the boys mad
g for the Canadian shore, but they ief
: behind the younger brother, Billy, wht
:, was supposed not to have known anything
Of the robbery. Very soon, events showed
!, that Billy had hand in the game, and h
= was jailed. Pinkerton then set to work 4
o extradite the balance OF the crowd, and, t
make sure Of his men, gave his personal at
( tention to the matter. He found his men a
d Windsor, living on the fat Of the land. an
n at once commenced proceedings for thei
extradition. He met every obstacle tina
: could we'll be thrown in his way. I'll
9 plunderers spent money lavishly to Oppos
: their return, and it was not until
, . SPECIAL rlEpsE roR THEIR SAFETY:
= hal been given the Canadian Government by on
O secretary Of State that the great moral deteefiv
was allowed tn retire with his men, ana eve
= then he came being s-.as-lifated on th
{, ferry-boat while crossing from Windsor to ID.
u troit After immense difficulty, and the eyer
4 else of the highest order of STACEY, the PRISON
ers were at last landed IN New Atr'ny JAN
- Here feveral futile attempts were made To iynei
them, INT 10 not TILL the whole town had heel
J, Thoroughly sentineled by the visiantes. anl al
9 the officials placed under guard. that the ICON
u mit,ee" could break into the Jail. The dc>per
4 ADDE'S were first shot, and then hung to ihe ban
| l-ters Of the jail.
: THIS dhfnt. however, clean out the whole gang
| aud before long the Survivors, driven To II prob
ably by necessity. e>ssyesi another attack ON TIN
n Ohio and Mississippi tram. this time at Browns
town. twelve m,ies west OF seymour. The ex
press ear was to have been detached n the tran
. stopped AT the depot, th~u run to the proper
!, place. and robbed. But somebody gave the plo
. AWAY aud the train, when il came. brought along
the most heavily armed express ear that e,ei
3 visited those parts. Men with rifles were am
= pushed behind freight boxes IN the baggage an
express ears, and the robbers met the hotties
KIND of reception One man fell. shot IN tb'
H. Al. n. H. h.