The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-01-29
THE RENOS.
A History Of the Bandits Of the
West.
How the Adams Express Hunted
Thorn Down.

How the Adams Express Hunted
Thorn Down.
On Monday, the 2is; inst, in the Supreme
court of this State, application wss made
for the release, under the habeas corbu-
act, Of John Reno, the famous express rob-
Der. Reno's original sentence was for
twenty. FIVE years, but it il alleged that
On the first day Of his official term Gov. L.
tiratz Brown commuted his sentence To ten
years. The ten years expired on Thursday
last and still Reno Is not free. 1t il said
that the order III Communication wa entered
ON the prison record and then afterwardS
erased. on the ground oi invaIidi,y, AMI
with the petition Of Reno for discharge is
fled letter from one John Cox, acknowl-
edging possession vi the original order oi
Communication, and declaring the intention
TO retain the same unless he be paid II 900.
The question is sill pending in the Supreme
court.
Unfortunately for Reno, great many
persons would prefer that he be not lib
Grated quite 80 soon. When the jury at
C;allatin found him guilty Of robbing the
safe of the treasurer oi Davies county
they assessed his punishment at forty years
! in the pen. 4 merciiul judge reduced this
term by fifteen years, anil still Reno was
not satisfied. Every Governor Of the State
since Reno's incarceration has been asked
10 extend Executive c.emency in his i,ehali,
and each and every request ha- been ener-
letically opposed by that remorseie-s cor
I,craiion known n the Adams Express
Company, and nv other corporation, and
some private persons.
! il may be we'll io state that, outside ol
John Reno, no member of that powerful
organization known a. the "Rsno gang
exists. John was the brains Of the party
and il is believed could readily organic,
another gang that should operate agains
county treasures safes AMI express ears
with the same fatal success that market
the doings Of the old gang. The Western
country never saws such an
ERA OF BURGLARY AND VAULT RcBBERY
~ that which existed during the peric,
covered by Reno and his friends. Nom
inally their headquarters were at Seymour
Ind. Tie father of the Reno boys, Wiki
Reno, was farmer, who never bore AM
particular bad reputation. Neither di,
the mother have a bad name. bu, the son
occupied the farm house when home ans
lied to il for shelter in iroublous times
All grew UP adopts in crime tia, is to say
&irst-olass burglars and io5'ers. Their
was one daughter. named Laura, ri whom
more hereafter The organization Of On
band Wis perfect, They not only kept
keen eve Tor the treasure boxes OF tn
. Adams Express. but they managed To pla
and execute numerous rJbberies oi count,
treasurers' safes in various sections Of th
Western country. Tax paying time woul
come, AMI when the safes were full th
money went, and with it would dIssppea
prominent, citizen al previously good r,
pute On such occasions il was usual
noticed that the Reno boys or their friend
had been in the vicinity about that tim,
An incalculable amount oi treasure fe
into the robbers hands, AMI so we'll wer
their plans arranged that they were neve
caught until they ran foul OF the Adams
that corporation which never releases ii
P clutches on the robbers throat. In III
; neighborhood Of Seymour, Ind, such Va
The terror and dread which these marsudel
) inspired in the community that no on
dared modest them. and parties suspecte
of giving information TO the au;hori,i,
were generally not surprised to see ;hei
property destroyed BY fire, il, indeed, the
: were not themselves assassinated. Sewers
e such ou;rages we're, in fact, committed 4
the time Seymour was haunted with thi
gang, no kind Of property was safe. Stor,
were rooed in open daylight, and outIag,
, at night were Of respectable frequency
The feeling on the part Of the citizens {,
wards these men will perhaps explain the
: long immunity from punishment and
THEIR rEARrULLY TRAGIC END.
4 reporter, thinking little inicrniatio
r concerning the bandits OF the Wabash an
their crimes, as we'll as some news a. ,
!. John Reno's chance for liberation, woul
5 not prove uninteresting reading, detei
: mined to look the matter up. and accord
ingly dropped in on ex-Gov. Il. Graf
: Brown about noon OF one day this weel
e The Ex-Governor. being duly. interro gate,
:. confessed that he Tecollected but little Z
{ John Reno or the efforts made to procur
n his release or the Communication Of his sen
,ence. He was, however, OF opinion tina
y Nicholas NJ. Bell and Capt. Barton Adj
n and newspaper man named johnson, mo-
out in California, were anxious workers
Renc's behalf. lie recollected, too, tina
having committed several long sentences j
: accordance with his expressed belief ths
? ten years Was As long a. any one ma
should be kept in the Penitentiar., he VS.
> asked to commute the sentence of job
y Reno. which lie did. "But," said the Go,
ernor, ''it was on the last day Of my oil
-cisl term, and am Of the Impression tbs
the order Of Communication was not recorde
before IL o'clock that night, and 50 bees n,
void"
"Didn't the Adams Express folks opPos
his release or auy Communication OF his ser