The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-06-27
Three OF A KIND.
And Very Bad Kind, Too, as They
are Part Of the KinsIey Gang
of Train Robbers,
But Who Won't Rob Any More rains
or Anything Else for The Next
Five Years,
As They Have Been Sent Up to the
Stale Penitentiary for That
Length Of Time.
SAFE IN THE PESITESTIAKY.

SAFE IN THE PESITESTIAKY.
Yesterday afternoon, sheriff J. W. Fuller,
Murray, w. ". Barkman, and V. ID. Billings,
arrived at the State Penitentiary, having in
charge Edgar West, Thomas Gott. and ]. D.
Green, three of the gang Of six VINO attempt
ed, early on the morning of the 18th OF last
January, TO rob the esist-bound express on
the Atchison, Topeka & Sants Fe road, At
Kinsley. The details of the rohi.-ry are sti |
fresh in the public mind, coupled and insep-
arabic as they are with the plucsy and deter
mined stand made by the brave station agent
al that point, but for whom
THE ROBBERY
might have been "a success instead of the fail
ure II was. IL vas but the very briefest space
OF time after the attempt that Sheriff Fuller
had "A posse of men mounted and IL pursuit
of the gang, although IL fell TO the lot Of
sheriff Masterson, OF Ford county, 10 effect
the capture of the two caught in the Indian
Territory. On the 9TH Of February Sheriff
MasteTson captured Rodebaugh ana West At
OF near LoyeiIs Camp, on Crooked Creek, in
the Indian Territory, after a sharp skirmIsh.
IN which no one was killed, however, and
brought them 10 Dodge. Something over a
nontn a't.r that Gott and Green, who
DID NOT SUSPECT
that their participation in the robbery was
known, cttne into Dodge, and.were gobbed
up, Roieoaush having ..squaisd" aud let
the cat ont of the bag. Tne trial which en-
sued al kinsley, in the District Court, Judge
Peters on the bench, was long and exciting,
but before ..the evidence of Rodebangh, who
told straight story. and saved himself at
the expense of his comrades, the conviction
of the three was foregoue conclusion, they
admitting, in fact, that tney were guilty, and
they
WERE ACCORDINGLY EACH SENTENCED
to five years at hard labor in the State Peni-
tentiary here. Two of the gang, Cthere were
six of them concerned in the attempt,) are
still at liberty, and owing to the fact oil the
small reward, slUO each, which Is offered for
their apprehension, IL is not probable that
suI a. a
and, upon good authority, too, that IL a suit
able reward, sufficient TO guarantee all ex.
penses attendant upon the chase and trouble
of bringing them 10 kinsley, were offered,
the two would be brought in in a very
short time. Be that as IL may, however, three
OF them are safe, and where they won't bother
any more railroad trains for the next five
years To cOn9.
THE GANG,
OF which these thieves are but a very small
part, has its rendezvous in the Texas Pan
Handle, on or near the Canadian river, and
numbers about one hundred, the majority
being as nervy and plucky men as ever stole
"a horse OF drew a revolver, and who would
stand up TO be shot at about as long time as
any set OF men which could DE found any
where These outlaws are the terror of the
border, and at once bold and skillful in their
ons, extending their excursions far
into Kansas making a haul whenever con.
yenient No concerted attempt has ever been
made 10 break up the gang, and probably
none which could be made would do any
good, as IL would be task very few would be
willing To undertake without the promise of
large reward.
ON THE WAY To LEAvENwoRTH.
The AtchisOn, Topeka & Santa Fe furnished
Sheriff Fuller with an extra coach in which
10 bring up the prisoners, which, at Lawrence,
was switched ON this side of the river, and at
tached 10 the regular Kansas Pacific train for
this city, the prisoners being landed safely at
the penitentiary. Extra precautions were al
so taken. as there was good reasons to believe
that a rescue would be attempted, but had
there been there would most assuredly have
been sonebody hurt. There was one plan on
foot ior the Ielease of the prisoners, a plan
which, however, didn't work, and which, TO
say the least, reflected shTewdneSS upon the
part OF those who concocted IL. 1t was pre-
sumed that the sheriff would go through on
the Santa Fe to Kansas City with the prison.
ers, and come up 10 Leavenworth on the Mis-
SOuri Pacific plug, which arrives here at ~
4. NJ. IL was then intended, as soon as the
cpnyicIs were
UPON MISSOURI SOIL
10 get them out upon a writ of hGbeus cor-pus,
rs The Sheriff would have no right to hold
them in another state. High hopes Were en-
iertained THAI this plan would succeed, as IL
was naturally tobe presumed that The Santsfe
tram would lie tai IN 10 Kansas City where the
prisoners would be transferred 10 the Mis-
souri, Pacific and brought up here. IxseSher-
III Fuller and his party were too sharp to be
caught in any sIcn trap as that, and accord
lHgly bad the coach switched OFF at Lawrence
.o this side of tie kaw and attached 10 the
Leayenworth train.
THE PRISONERS
are all young men, West, the eldest of the
three, being but twenty-nine years OF age, |
Iott twenty-three, and Green also twenty
hree. Vests father, an old man of about |
sixty years of age, is now in the city, and feels
leeply the disgrace his wayward son has |
brought upon the family. Mr.. West resides |
near Aurora, Illinois, and owns the prize |
arm in that stale, being reputed TO be very |
wealthy. Sheriff Fnller and party will re-
main in the city until Monday evening, and |
"a The meantime will visit Fort Lesven-
worth, Camp Joseph and other places of in
crest in the metropolis.