The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-11-23

summoned II posse and started on the
trail. Detectives came in from every
Whcre--am0ug them three of PinkGr-
toms best men. They say they tracked
Bnrrow 10 Cash's house, but after that
the trail was lost
Troops were sent to Lamar, and the
sheriff = posse, the detectives and the
troops surrounded the houses of Jim
Cash, old man Allen BurrOw, Rube' =
father, and John Thomas BurrOw, his
brother. They arrested all three men
without resistance, but in fear all The
time that Rube would turn up and fir,
into them.
After the arrest of the men a hall
dozen detectives caught the ID year Obi
son of John Thomas BurrOw, put Ii
rope around his neck, threw il over the
limb of tree and threatened TO hang
him il he didn't tell all he knew about
ltube's whereabouts, his robberies. etc.
The boy was badly frightened and told
all he knew.
He told of Rube and Joe Jackson
having been at his fathers house for u
month, living i'll Il small corner room
| with double doors, double walls, and
having nicely covered port holes all
around which could only be opened
from the inside ana conld not be detect
ed on the outside. Also of overhearing
their pIaus OF the Duck Hill train rob-
berry, and of hearing his Uncle Rube
say he would kill Postmaster Graves
Then of his return and disappearance
after the killing.
The three men were kept in jail four
days and then released, as there was 10
proof against them, Jim Cash having
proven by twenty witnesses that he was
not within ten miles of Jewel when the
murder was committed.
Rube Burrows last train robbery
was committed on the night of Sept
20 last. With his pal, Jackson, he held
| up and robbed the souihbOund express
| train on the Mobile and Ohio road just
south OF Buckatana, getting 81 ,O0O
from the express company aud large
amount OF registered mail.
The two men did the Job neatly
Jumping Oh the rear end of the engine
as it pulled out OF Buckatana, they
leveled their pistols on the engine five
miles out, uncOup!ed it and then wen
through the mail and express car, keep
| ing the agents covered with theil
| pistols, got all the yaiuables and skipped
out before the passengers had chauCt
to know what was gong on.
lie had held up trains aud robbed
the express company on eight differen
occasions before this, getting i'll al
about $4,000. They had had dozen.
If experienced and shrewd detectives
on his trail Tor nearly two years, bu
all their efforts had proven fruitles>
| Hn2 This tIntn thu I.f ihl
express company, the states OF Missis
sippi, Alabama and Arkansas aud The
various railroad companies that he hat
robbed chipped III and offered com
bined reward of 81 800 for his capture
dead or alive. Dozens of detectives
including three of Pinkerton's bes
men, were put on his trail, and every
sheriff IN Alabama and Mississippi wer,
on the lookout for him, hoping to max,
the capture and get the big reward.
There followed the desperate chast
with dogs and men which has iailcC
even to trighten the two outlaws into
leaving the country. They can be tount
at any time, but nobody wants TO finC
them, not even with 81 800 as rewar(
for lodging bullet in Rube's body
where ii will do the most good. A
the end OF the last engagement whel
Burr0W had shot dead two of his pur.
suers and wounded three or four more
he sang out in farewell:
"IOu fellows 90 and learn TO shoot
Good-by boys" he yelled, as he disap
pearcd in the trees. "Come and SEE
me again"
This ended the chase, aud Rub,
BurroW Is still at large, and is apt It
be for some time TO come.
There is only Que way to cartur
him, and that is TO ambush aud xii
him, but even this is almost impossible
tor he never stops in any but the mos
unsettled country and Il country wit
which he is thoroughly familiar. II
knows nearly every foot of ground il
all north Alabama. and when he one
gets among the mountains OF BlouE
county, where he has friends, it wouI
be next TO impossible for even an arm
of ,OO0 men 10 capture him.
| Among these mountains are natura
iOrresses of rock, almost inaccessible
in which he and Jackson, with til
almost inexhaustable supply of ammu
milton which they carry, could with
stand a long siege, and, on account G
their familiarity with the country, ,cOul
escape whenever they desired. An
again, there are few men who knoI
anything about Burrow who wOul
attempt to catch him oil his guard.
Rube's boy is a chunky little fello'
OF II with bright blue eyes and rathe
bold look. One OF the neighbors sand
lies chip off the old block and
: hear he says he's Iust waiting until h
gets to be 10, when he's going to kill
man in this county ho once tried
arrest Rube, then he's going to join hi
father and hold up trains"