The Osceola times., 1879-10-25
THE JAMES BOYS.

the JAMES BOYS.
A Daring Robbery at Glendale, Fifteen
miles from Kansas City.
Kansas City Times.
One of the most daring and successful
robberies ever perpetrated anywhere in
Missouri was that which was last night
committed upon the Chicago and Alton
east-bound passenger train, which left
here at o'clock last evening for Chicago
and st. Louis. The scene of the train
robbery was the little road station known
ON the time card rs Glendale. The total
population of the hamlet cannot exceed
dozen souls, and its name is the largest
Of its population.
IN FUTURE,
though, il will have record. Like the
once unknown Villages Of Arbela, NAL
plaquet or Waterloo, II now jumps sud-
denly into fame.
Keeping the little postofficc at that
/ place IL man Of recent agrarian pur-
suits who combines with his duties of
postmaster those of which pertain to the
. management of ''gencral store" ! Be-
sides there Is at Glendale only th c off
&C of the telegraph operator at the sta
tion and one or two other houses, The
place is six miles east of Independence,
and the surrounding country is
HALF A WILDERNESS.
At this little store and postotlicc there
were last night gathered half dozen
!. men-population of the vicinity. They
were seated about on boxes and barrels,
discussing the live issues of that section,
when stranger entered and tapping the
proprietor authoritatively on the should
er, said
Il want you"
"What do you WANT" asked the min
ion of Uncle Samuel.
The new conner said nothing in reply,
but stepping to the door summoned to
his side half dozen rough looking fcl-
lows who came into the room with cock
ed rcvolvers and grutily ordered the oc-
cupant Of the room to
MAKE TRACKS"
: for the depot. Resistance was so far
from useless as to be absurd, and the un-
happy and trembling erangers fled away
TO the depot building. Here they were
ordered TO "sit down, act clever and keep
still unless they wanted their heads
blown of with neatness and dispatch.
ne ErincTs SAT us stlll US Inlct.
In the meantime 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.
snow l 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 that
demonstrated the son of Morse.
That's just what We want it to do,
my buck, and the sooner you obey or
ders the better. will give You a min
ute 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 glance satisfied all his lingering
doubts as to whether the owner would
shoot or not when the minute expired
lie weakened-who wouldn't with pis.
tol down his throat?-and lowered the
signal.
This change in the position of the
green signal is simply an order to the
conductors of passenger trains To STOP
and receive fresh instructions. Lest
through any mishap, the train should
not stop, the despcradocs piled upon the
track mass of rock which II snbse-
quently required the labor of
-FOUR TRAIN MEN
to remove. Ii the train didn't stop
through the action of the engineers
levcr,t they intended that it should stop in
consequence of natural laws.
The passengers might he killed to the
number of score or 50, but the train
must stop anyway.
= All this occurred just after niehtfall.
Il was about eight o'clock when the
whistle of the locomotive sounded from
out of the darkness in the west The
train dashed up to the station and
stopped. The conductor, Greenman,
jumped of upon the platform and start
ed towards the operators Office for his
instructions.
HE WAS COVERED
by pair Of revolvers before he had
+ taken three steps and although he made
some resistance, he was unable TO ac-
complish anything eile ctive. The cngi-
neer 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 here damned quick. or youll
never have use for another"
The hammer was handed.
Then the masked men
ATTACKED THE DOORS
Of the express car. Within was the
messenger, ANm. Grimes. He had in his
slfe thousands of dollars of the compa-
ny's money, and bravely refused 10 sur
render when admittance was demanded,
coupled with threats of death il he re-
fused it. While the robbers were nj
work upon the door with their ham,
mers, patrol was scattered along the
line of the train, and constant discharge
of firearms was made, probably for the
purpose of
INTIMIDATING the PASSENGERS.
Many of the latter were much alarmed.
A hurried secretion of valuables was
made in places thought TO be least SUBJ
ject to search, but the robbers did not
attempt to enter the passenger coaches.
During this time, also, the express mes
senQof had hastily opened his safe, taken
nom Il q Large sum Of money, placed IL
In his satchel, rclocked the safe, and
them andpavOred 10 escape by the OnpO-