The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-27
Detective Wit and Energy Hand
somely Rewarded at Last.
The Great Band of Train Robbers
Routed, 1t is Hoped for Good.
Responsible for all This Style Of
Deviltry in Late Years.
Traced Trough q Rubber Overcodt
Found on the Scene of the Recent
Arkansas Train Robbing-Exclt-
ing Chase and Capture.

There passed through Memphis this
morning at 6 O'Clock the most desperate
and perhaps noted freebooter and train
robbcr now living in this country, or ut
least he and his brother enjoy that repu-
tation. This distinguished daredevil was
altogether harmless, however, rs hc was
securely manaclcd and in the custody OF
determined officers OF the law Ills name
is james Barows, who IN wanted, with
his brother Rubc, for robbing Southern
Express company car at Genoa, Ark, u
station on the 81. Louis. Arkansas 4 Texas
railway, on the 10Th OF December last.
The amount OF money taken at the time
was variously exaggerated, and an officer
OF the express company states now thai IL
did not exceed $500.
The Barrow brothers live in q rude
mountain home several miles from Yer
non an inland village in Lamar county,
Ala. They have long been known 10
pinkcrton and other detectives rs the au-
ihors Of nearly all of the train robbcries
which have taken place in the south aud
southwest within tbs past six or eight
years, but unluckily the officers have never
been successful enough 10 capture them.
After the robbery at Genoa Pinkertons
men learned that II had been committed
by the Barrow brothers, aud friend of
theirs named Charles brock They found
out also by the discovery Of an oil cloth
| ovcrcoat found on the scene of the robbery
that II had been sold by u firm in Waco.
! Tex. Taking the Goa, 20 Waco, the officer
found the merchant who had sold IL, and
! this merchant furnished the officer with
an accurate description Of the purchaser,
who hc said was Charles Brock, and that
hc lived on farm about ten miles from
| Waco. The detective. whose name "
| Mrt,inn, one Of pinkcrton's shrowdest aud
| trusted men, with the assistance Of q
shcriil's posse, went out and arrested
| Brock, aud he IL now q prisoner ~ Tex
arlSana, Ark. II was through Brock that
the detectives found out the whereabouts
oi the Barrow brothers, and procceded
there TO arrest them. There was quite a
pD-se Comiintus ufRahlspd aud won't
out To the mountain fastncss for
the purpose Of arrNing the noted
criminals but their approach Ia the
house WIS discovered by the wife 0f
one 0l the outlaws. AMI through her warn,
ing they made good their escape after an
exciting chase. during which inlly hiiy
shots were fired at the fugiuvcs, hut wiih-
out effect The country around was
secured Tor several days, hut the mountain
bandits knew the country better than their
pursuers, and search was finally aban-
doncd.
On Monday last Conductor !. $. Gala.
han, on the North & South mad leading 10
Montgomery, Ala. noticci two suspicious
chamctcrson his tnn, aud tclcguphcd TO
Chief Of Police Gerald. Of that city, to
have an officer At the depot Ia meet aud
nrrcst the suspects Capt. Martin, Of tho
police, took several officers 20 the depot.
aud when the traip slowed up, arrested
the two men, who Wcrc standing ON tho
car steps and IN the net Oi jumping on
The arrested men went quietly
along with the uhcer until
they were nbou, approaching the entrance
to the police station, when the prisoners
made bold dash inr irucdom. capt.
Martin had charge Of Jim llaruws, whlc
officers Carrignn aud MC,icc had charge u
Reuben, his brother. Jim, IN the scuillo
with Cnpt. Martin, gpt away from him and
WIS about 10 make his escape, but STUN
BLEED aud Tell over the hydrant near tha
station house door, and wu rcarfrstod and
secured 10y the plucky captain.
The other two officers were not
~ successful. aud their man escaped. Dur
ing the pursuit and IN response 10 tho
cries oi the oiliccr 10 stop him. Mr..
Neil Bray, printer on the AduTt's,r ani
who was 1T one time an nitachc ol TuE
ArPrAl Office attempted Ia stop tho flee
ing desperate, when he muid,rously
whipped out q pistol and shot Bray in
| fatal anil La IL Isa-
paired Of. The fugitive made his
escape In the darkness, and though Nieor-
ously hunted by the officers, has not vet
been arrested, though he was caught ia
close quarters In swamp near Mont
gumery and WIS shot by QUE oi the Oiii-
ccrs. Tho last seen Ot him ho WIS bars
headed bare footed and oycrcoailcss, rid
ing blind horse bare hack, which he
stole irom an old negro man 10y the name
OF Brady.
The captured brother refuses 10 talk
further than 90 acknowledge that he is
James Barrows lie had several hundrl
dollars on his person when captured ana
IL securely ironcd and closely guarded by
the officers who have him, en- route TO
TcNarkana, where lac will bc tried, along
with the man Brock. Tho Southern Ex-
prrss company have spared no expense in
| tIlN nnTNWlN ~ AlA'N' AfNlffNNA' Nt'h W.
have robbed them. aud will see that they
are dealt the punishment they ~ richly
merit
II Is stated by one Of the company's Of
Rcals that the liarrows have been the ati-
, thom Of every train robbery IN the south
and southwest which has been perpctraled
, within the past thpo or four years.
James Bauows Is about twenty'nine yea1s
old, stands six feet and one inch IN
height, and weighs about $50 pounds us
7 brother Rube IA thiriy-two years Old,
weighs 100 pounds, and Is six feet two
{ inches tall. They arr rough countfynen
in appearance, fairly Intelligent, and have
no bad habits aside irom being. robbers
n 4 said that they neither drink whisky,
smoke nor gamble Their father was de.
fcated for sheriff Ia Lamar county m,'
wear. lie Is an elderly man, aud has Az
:. WAYS enjoyed fair vpuh'auon IN Nm
= county, T. -.
o The arrest Of Roubcn Barrow = most
4 likely 10 follow, M the cxprcss COMPANY
a | ..t...i tt..t tn shail NO. trfllHs pun