The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-10-11
HE'S A SLICK ONE.
Tempofsky, the Alleged Car
Robber. in a Bad
Light.
He is Held Behind the Bars
and Permitted to See
No One.
The Kansas City Authorities Give
Him q Terrible Hard
Name.

Henry Tempofsky, who was arrested
Thursday evening in this city on a charge
Of having stolen goods To- the amount of
500 from the car OF a we>t-bound Mis-
souri, Pacific freight train, WAS visited AT
the county Jail Yesterday afternoon by 3
BAzoo reporter, but Sheriff Conner stated
that il would he impossible 10 interview
the prisoner, ~ no one WAS permitted To
see ar converse with hlm.
Yesterday afternoon the woman who
/ claims Ia bc his wife, but who i now reg
istered n a hotel here under the name of
MURRAY, also called at the Jail Tor the pur-
pose ~ talking with Tempoiskv, but she,
too. was refused admittance.
! IL will bc remembered that Tempofsky
denied that the woman was his wife. This
i probably the case. Ii Is said he has 4
wife and two children In Kansas CITY. and
Yesterday morning he received a telegram
from hi son, asking II there WAS anything
he wanted The Kansas City Star 0f Fri
lay evening has the following in regard
10 the man and his G"ings In that city:
S.-dalia officers have the credit "a, hav-
Ing captured one OF gang oi thieves who
have their headquarters in this city, but
whose operations have been So carefully
guarded and concealed that nothing more
than a strong suspicion could I've brought
against them.
The dispatch which announces the arrc,;
states that broken box. marked Charles
Stearn>. Colorado Springs Was found two
miles west "i that place, un the Missouri
Pacific road. AMI tweniv-"nc pieces Ui
fine cashmere, valued al 500, were found
on the Opposite side of the track, hid in
some bushes. and that three Men who gave
their names III Tempoi>kv, \. [. Stewart
and {. ii. Stevens were arrested. The two
latter escaped. but Tcmpoisky i>still III GUS
tody, and the Se,lalia papers having gotten
him mike with Polliw">kv who Was driven
out Of the city on account oi the Daisy
Dome case last winter, announced that he
! the man. This i mistake. The
Tempoiskv referred Ia l. Henry Tcmpoi>kv.
who has Tor some time owned small
saloon AZ The corner oi Third and Grand
avenue, known a. the Annex" His
place burned down last spring, under very
peculiar circumstances. and was rebuilt
by the Insurance companies in preference
la paving the Insurance. The place and
proprietors have long been looked upon
with suspicion, as the crowd he kept about
him was very hard Some three weeks
since Henry placed hi brother Moses, who
runs a similar dive ia West Kansas, iii
charge of his place. and putting man
named Stewart and a colored man behind
the bar, lett the city, o,tersibly for l visit
io 81 Louis and Chicago.
Since that time no one unless, ii he his
pals, has seen ANYTHING al him, and there
il little doubt that hi> trip had Tor It's oh
iecf some nriari III business and N II
highly probable the authorities have the
right man. The two who escaped were
last seen going north from Sedalis on foot
They are described a follows:
A. {. Siewart-Abont 81 years old,
smooth face. , feet high, light complexion,
dressed in dark clothes.
&. III. Stevens-Five feet ten inches high,
middle age, dark complexion and beard,
dressed in dark clothes.
Ii is probable, however, that the de-
scriptions were reversed, and the names
transposed would probably be correct. Ii
this is true, they are known Ia the police
here. Another fact which points la these
men being members OF gang which have
been systematically rubbing the freight
trains of the Missouri Pacific road Is. that
Charles Stewart, who Yesterday pleaded
guilty TO carrying concealed weapons. in
the criminal court al Independence, and is
to-day on trial for robbing the road some
six months ago, was constantly visited and
supplied with food and luxuries by Hen
~ Tempofsky during his confinement in
the Jail here. Tempofsky has wife and
two children in this city, who, however,
will not miss him much.