The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1884-04-09


OF the bell. He heard the engine
bell 4; he turned the hod2 50 as to Ia,
the breast on the rail and told me
that would finish the Job: he then
took me by the sleeve and we Climb
ed the bank of the cut; he knew the
way. While holding To- a bush or
root, about half way up the bank. /
turned and saw the body moving :;
had the train come later he would
have moved off. | hoped he would
get OFT before the train would come
Charlie made NE get up on
the bank 50 fhe headlight would not
enable the engineer TO see me. AS
we reached the top OF the cut We
| both looked down and heard a crush
| ing noise and saw something white.
like Il piece of shirt, 90 around with
| the wheel. Charlie threw the case
OF Steidle's watch away while com
ing to town. He told me if l ever
| Squealed on hlm was as good as a
| dead man. but if did not he would
stick to me until every thing was all
right. We went back again over a
bridge on the other side we looked
down again from the bridge and
saw the white of SHIRT, | want
ed TO go down and see II there was
any lite in Ste1dle. but he would not
| let me. and we went down to the
depot again. He then got the satch-
eI from that freight agent. He told
me to go first and he followed me
and we went west. We walked
nearly 4 or 5 miles when we went
to the left hand side OF the road into
the woods where he told me to stop
and get some kindlins together.
some drv leaves and such. He
pulled the overcoat Oft which he
took from Steildle and emptied all
thinghs i'll 1t which he had taken
from Steidle's pockets.
Charlie made fire and counted
money and offered me half CT the
money to be mum. He gave me
little over sos. | suppose he had a,
much. He had a watch. He took
my putty knife which always have
with me. and dug a hole and buried
the watch. He told me what to tell
if | should ever get caught; the same
story | told Capt. Chester first. He
repeated il To me and repeated it to
him. He put the overcoat on and
took the sachel in hand and we got
back on the track and started west
for Centreriew. He burned up every
thing but the money. 1t was nearly
all paper money except 5 or 8 silver
dollars: there was no gold. We
found a gold piece afterwards III the
trunk at Kansas CITY. He eXchang
ed it it, Sedalia for it was 20 mark
piece He kept me in front OF him
all the way. When we met a train
we faced about and walked eastward
to make the engineer think we were
going to Warrenshurg. Gott TO Cen
terv1ew about O'Clock. About ;
O'Clock ne woke somebody up i'll "A
restaurant to get him breakfast. We
eat breakfast of sausage and crack
ers and then went to the depot where
we requested the oDerato: to have
the tram stop, but it did not. At 6
O'Clock we left on q freight and went
to Kansas City. We got Off the
train at Union avenue and then went
to Market square and put the vallse
up in saloon on the north side OF
the square. We then went and got
hats and then went to shoe store.
We bumned all night. Next day
(Tuesday) we got the trunks and
took them to Jim Buffers on James
street, where we left them when he
went away and he got a suit OF
clothes. He took all Of the papers
out OF the trunk and burned them
and the best of the clothes with the
contents of my three valises we pu
in a new trunk. We took the tru X
to union depot and checked It to Sc
dalia. On the train (night express)
On the Missouri Pacific road. we met
two prostitutes one got off at tioi-
den. the other went with him to Sc
dalia He went to hotel, the L.
rov house. and /. refusing to go with
him. went to my room on FOuith
street. | recognize the hat. shoes
and collar as Steidle's. (On being
shown the wrench the prisoner ex-
claimed 'was that the thing. = new
s,i,prise.') IL was dark. ] could
not see the wrench. Charles Ham
iiIpn and served wears in the pen
itentiary together. | met Charlie at
oui boarding house in Sedalia. !
was sent up from Kansas City tor
grand larceny Ed. Altman was