The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-10-24
I WANT YOU.
Mail Details Of the Daring Train Rob.
hery at Glendale, Missouri. .Jessc
James the Supposed Leader.
lkansas City Times. ]

full rObbcries ever perpetrated any,
where in Missouri was that which :yas
last night committed upon the Chicago
and Alton east-bound passenger train,
which left here at 6 o'clock last even-
ing for Chicago and st. Louis. The
scene Of the train robbery was the little
road station known on the tine-card
as Glendale. The total population of
the hamlet can not exceed a dozen
souls, and it's name is the largest part
OF its population. In future, though, it
will have a record. Like the once un-
known villages Of Arbela, MaIp1aquct
or Waterloo, it now jumps suddenly
into fame.
Keeping the little postofiice at the
place is a man of recent agrarian pur-
suits, who combines with his duties of
postmaster those which pertain to the
management of Il "generat stOre.'
Besides this there are at Glendale only
the Office of the telegraph operator at
the station and one or two other houses.
The place is six miles east of Inde-
pendence, and the surrounding country
is half a wilderness. At this little
store and postoffice there were last
night gathered half q dozen men-the
population of the vicinity. They were
seated about upon boxes and barrels,
discussing the live issues Of that Sec
ton, when a stranger entered, and tap
ping the proprietor authOrltaiively on
the shoulder, said:
ssI want you.''
ssWhat do you want:" asked the
minion of Uncle Samuel.
The newcomer said nothing in reply,
but. stepping to the door, summoned
to his side a half.dozen rough-looking
fellows who came into the room with
cooked revolvers, and gruffly ordered
the occupants of the room to "maise
tracks" for the depot. Resistance was
so far from useless as to be absurd, and
filed away to the depot building. Here
they were ordered to s'sit down, act
cleveraud keep still'' unless they want
ed their heads blown off with neatness
and dispatch. The farmers sat as still
as mice.
In the mean time the strange men,
who were masked, with the exception
of one man, who appeared to be the
leader, had been joined by another
gang Of about equal numbers, and
these last men had under guard the
operator at the telegraph station. Then
they tore the instruments out of his
Office and destroyed them.
"Now I want you to lower that
green light" said the unmasked man
to the operator, pointing to the signal
lantern which hung aloft.
"But the train will stop if do tl,at,'
demonstrated the son of Morse.
ssThat's just what we want it to do,
my buck, and the sooner you obey Or
ders the better. will give you just
one minute to lower the light" and he
forced the muzzle Of cooked revolver
into the young mans mouth.
The operator looked up along the
bright barrel, and a glance satisfied all
his lingering doubts as to whether the
owner would shoot or not when the
minute expired. He weakened-who
wouldn't with a pistol down his throat?
and lowered the signal.
The change in the position OF the
signal is simply an order to the con-
ductors of passenger trains to stop and
receive fresh instruction. Lest through
any mishap the train should not stop,
the desperadoes piled upon the track a
mass of rock which it subsequently, re-
quired the labor of four train men to
remove. Ifthe train didn't stop through
the action of the engineers lever, they
intended that it should stop in conse-
quence of natural laws.
The passengers might be killed to
the number Of a score or SO, hut the
train must stop anyway.
All this occurred just after nightftli.
It was about O'Clock when the whis-
tie of the locomotive sounded from ont
the darkness in the west. The train
dashed up to the station and stopped.
The conductor, Greeman, jumped Off
upon the platform and started towards
the operators Office for his instructions.
He was covered by a pair of revolvers
before he had taken three stops, and
although he made some resistance, he
was unable to accomplish anything
effective. The engineer and fireman
were already gazing into the ends of a
brace of weapons brought to bear upon
each, and could do nothing.
To the former one of the masked men
said:
"Hand me that coal hammer Of
yours
"What do you want OF it?''
"Hand it hered-d quick, or you'll
never have use for another.''
The hammer was handed. Then the
masked men attacked the doors of the
express car. Within was the messen-
ger, VIM. Grimes. He had in his safe
thousands of dollars of the company's
money, and bravely refused to surren-
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