Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-09-15
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.


bright smoking, common to good. $500 to
$500; dark red leaf, $500 to $500; half
bright wrappers, common to medium, $40
to $18.
Following are the particulars of the
Lexington stage robbery: Shortly after
O'Clock the bus had started from the depot
with four male passengers and one lady, for
the ferry to cross over to Lexington. Just
half way between the depot and ferry the
driver was called on to halt by party
of four well armed men, and the passengers
were ordered out of the stage and robbed OF
nearly everything. just before robbing the
bus their first operation was to capture and
rob movers wagon containing two men,
from whom they obtained $50. After rob-
bling the bus the highwaymen crossed over
to Lexington, going toward Kansas City.
The robbers were masked with white masks.
Two were armed with pistols and two with
shot-guns. They were noticed to call each
other Jesse and Frank. 1t is supposed the
outlaws were not mounted, as no horse
tracks can be found. No arrests have yet
been made. 1t is now the general belief of
all that the outlaws live close by. A procla-
nation has been issued by the Governor Of
fering a reward of 500 each for the parties
engaged in the robbery.
The other night, while Mathew Gaus-
key, farmer, who lives northwest of JEFF
ferson City about six miles and a half, was
absent from home, two men entered his
home, chloroformed his wife and children,
and then went through the house. They
broke open chest containing nearly $500,
mostly gold coin, and appropriated it all,
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cles. The only clew obtained as to the per-
petrators are the tracks found ON the prem
ises, showing that there were two men en-
gagged in the crime.
Governor Crittenden has issued a
requisition on the Governor of the State of
Virginia for the return to Jasper County Of
the notorious j. B. Klingman, alias Gen.
Morton, bigamist, swindler and forger, q
history Of whose career is familiar to the
general reader. 1t will be remembered
that he jumped his bond of $1,000 given to
insure his appearance for the crime of forg-
ing $1,000 draft at the Jasper Circuit
Court, and that since he has added several
other crimes to his long list, for one of which
he was recently arrested at Lynn, Mass,
and taken to Richmond, Va, where he is
now in Jail. Sheriff Roberts, of Jasper
County, goes as the messenger of the State to
bring Morton back.
A convict named John Kelly, who was
sent to the Penitentiary from Jackson Coun-
ty last year for grand larceny, made a novel
attempt upon his own life on the I'd. He
was employed in the blacksmithing depart
ment of Sullivan's saddle-tree shop, and was
being shaved by the barber, when, as the
latter was at work on his throat, Kelly threw
up his hand and struck the back of the razor,
driving the edge into his throat just below
the Adams apple, and cutting a long but
not very deep cash. He made a further at
tempt to get possession of the razor, but was
prevented by the barber. The guard then
attempted to remove him from the shop to
the Hospital, but he refused to go until
Deputy Warden Bradbury came in, when
he was taken out to the surgeon and his
wound dressed. 1t is a serious but not IA
tai one. Kelly, who is about 80 years Of age,
has heretofore been quiet and very goyerna-
BILE, but has been regarded by the officers as
rather unbalanced in his mind, and they re-
gard his effort as partly an insane freak.
Major Boyle was killed at Moberly.
on the LIST while attempting to cross the
railroad track in front of an approaching
train. Maj. Boyle was an inmate of the Coun-
ty Poor house, being unable, on account of
injuries sustained during the late war, to
work. Lately he has lived with Mr.. Henry
Fort, of Huntsville, and was in Moberly 1or
the purpose of looking after pension claim
lately forwarded to the Pension Office. The
case had been investigated, and but for the
untimely ending of his life he would soon
have been placed, through the Government,
II good circumstances.
Trouble has arisen in Barton County,
owing to the County Court having instructed
a road overseer to tear up three hundred
yards of the Missouri Pacific track, because
it was butt along public road. Mr.. Ports,
attorney for the railroad company, in a COM
munication to Assistant U. S. Attorney
Leaning, at jefferson City, states that the
company has mail contract and carries the
mail over that road daily, and asks that the
threatened obstruction to the transm mission
of the mail be stopped. Mr.. Leaning tele-
graphed in reply that all parties attempting
to hinder or delay the transmission of the
mails would be promptly arrested by the
United States Marshal or his deputies.
In relation to the arrest of VIM. F.
Martin in East Tennessee, who was under
sentence of death for murder and escaped
from the Lebanon Jail, November 18th last,
through the assistance of the Jailer's niece,
with whom he eloped, j. NJ. Patterson, Mar
tins attorney, says that Martin and his
wife, going under an assumed name, have
been several months in Washington County,
Ark. Martin has been cutting ties for the
Missouri, Arkansas g. Texas Railroad, hav-
ing taken a sub contract. He left there the
4th of July, and the cause of his departure
was his being recognized while playing a
fiddle at a dance by an old acquaintance,
who gave him kindly warning. He then
went to Bristol, Tenn, where he was cap
tured.
The Mexican Veteran Central Associ-
alton of the State of Missouri will assemble
at the Courthouse in Sedalia at IL O'Clock
a. m. on Thursday, the odd of September,
1881.
1t is estimated that the railroad re-
ceived $50 900 as freight from the watermel-
on crop alone in Southeast Missouri.
Governor Crittenden has gone to