The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-08-08
Conductor Iseaeh's sror,.

1LOOlS. aug IOctCn
was seen at the Lindell hotel tonight
by the Times correspondent. He is
man of small stature but we'll built,
and although nearly sixty years of age
is strong and vigorous. He has been
in the service of the Wabash road for
about twenty years as passenger con-
ductor. and is one of the best known
and most popular railroad men in the
state of Missouri. He said: I'VE lett
Kansas City last night at 500 O'Clock,
and this trouble must have occurred
about S:45 as nearly as / can judge. To
tell you the truth 1 was SO badly
frightened that l don't know much
about it, and | expect some of the pas
SengeTs can tell you more about it than
L can. Anyway, just after leaving
Kansas City, started to go through
the train to collect my fares and just
after passing Harlem did my work in
the ST. Louis sleeper and started for
the rear door ON my way to
the St. Paul coach, with the in
tentiOn of taking up the fares in
that and the Des Moines sleeper which
we ALWAYS bring out of Kansas City on
that train and leave at Moberly, where
they are picked up and sent north
When l reached the door and opened it
l.
faces covered by bandanna handker-
chiefs, and each one covered me with
cooked revolver. One of them stood
ON the platform of the st. Paul &C Ich
facing me and the other stood J., lie
to the right OF the door on the plat form
of the st. Louis sleeper. AS soon as
l opened the door the one nearest me
said: Hold up your hands - l
thought that a couple OF the boys were
MN inc fnV
the fun of the thing and L laughed and
made some joking reply. Quick as a
flash one showed the muZZle of his gun
into my face and said in an ugly tone
of voice: Hold up your hands, you
- or I'll blow the whole top of your
head off ~ 1 didn't fancy that kind of
talk, and without waiting to consider /
let him have have it with my lamp.
The blow broke the globe all to
pieces, bent the framework and put out
the light. then jumped back into the
car and got behind the door. One of
them stuck his pistol through the
crack of the door and blaZed away,
missing me, but smashing two Win
dows in the sleepers and soaring me
pretty badly. l expected the fellow
would shoot again, but he didn't and
instead he stepped out of sight. 1
waited minute. but / was beginning
to get pretty mad by this time aud [
stepped to the door again and threw
what was left of my lamp at his head.
don't know whether it hit him or not,
but l guess it surprised him little,
for he didn't shoot until had time to
get back into the sleeper again and
shut the door. didn't have any time
to spare, though, for hadn't more
than got the door pushed to when the
fellow that had thrown the lantern at
took shot at me. and it was only by
a mere accident that he didn't kill me.
/ was standing facing the door when
he fired and the bali struck the frame
work right in front of my breast and
| lodged in the wood. I then jumped
around behind the dressing room
/ to await further developments.
In the meantime the eonduc-
tor of the sleeper got ratified and
turned on the automatic air and
/ brought the train to standstill The
robbers had disappeared and they
must have jumped while the train was
/ running at high rate of speed. The
distance from Harlem to Randolph is
five miles, and our time between the
places is only ten minutes. It was
dark at the time and they took pretty
stiff chances. but they managed to get
away without leaving any clew to the
direction they took. One of Furlong' S
detectives happened to be on the train
and when we pulled over to Randolph
he got OF and organizing a posse of
citizens went back to the scene of the
robbery to hunt mp the robbers j
hope this thing won t get into the pa
pers. for il really d0esnt amount e
: much, and it VIII only cause my wifi