The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-07-22

our guns upon him. Mitchell told
ne to guard the three men and he GOT
into the car. He was abcu, to break
open a box when the express man
! told him not to break il and handed
him the kew. He unlocked the box
and took something out Of =
! We made arrangements that
/ he was 10 be called Cali
fornia and | Mexico. Some
freight trains were coming up hy this
time, and | told him Of 1t. and said ::
Let us CO." He jumped out of The
car, and the expressman asked him If
ne was through with him. He said
Yes; jump into that car, quick.
He handed me the parcel he took on,
of the train. 1t was small one and
| pul It in my Overcoat pocket.
wanted TO get on The freight ira II,
hut he said no, he would get some
horses. We went 10 a farm house
and entered the stable, where we
found one horse and two saddles. He
weu. out and found another horse.
We s.ddled them and went alb u:
twenty miles and turned them loose.
We took the saddles off and laid hem
down. We laid down in the woods
all that day, and the next day divided
the money There was 5000 and some
odd. l got half. We tore the par
Gel open twenty-five miles from the
robbery. The money was mostly So
and so bills and there were seven
$50 bills. We afterwards got ON a
freight train and Went to st. Louis.
We then went to Evansville and
stopped there two days. We then
went to Vincennes and stopped there
short time. Then We went to Mount
Vernon, and stopped there a short
time. We then went TO Caseyville,
KY, where Mitchell and l had fall
ing out. At that place went by the
name of Sam Simms, and be went by
the name of Bill Reeves. He
said he had a notion to tell me his
right name. but did not do so. Tie
abused and cursed me, and as | was
afraid of him j decided to quit him.
That night l told him that / was go
ing to get package of cigaret es,
and went to Mount Vernon, aud next
day while sat in the boarding house
he walked in and shook hands with
me. He wanted mo to So bach with
him and as l was afraid to refuse.
finally decided to do 80. We went
back to Caseyville, KY, and remained
there two or three weeks, loafin 2
around, doing no work and playing
cards. / do not remember when we
left Csseyville, but We left there one
week before l shipped my valise from
Mount Vernon to Fort Worth. II
shipped the valise some time in March,
1896. We left there for ST. Louis
in a freight train and arrived there
the next morning. We remained two
or three days and stayed principally |
in fancy houses. We then went to |
where we got into trouble on |
account of Mitchell shooting at a |
brakeman because he put us off a |
train. They had us in Jail for some
time until we had laid out our fin, 8. |
Three or four days after / got out |
came to Fort Worth, and have been
here since. | have not seen
Mitchell since that time. In Mis-
souri, be went by the name of Bill
West and | by the name of w. T. |
Smith. / was born 10 Rochester, Pa.
and came to Texas in 1880. Mitchell
is a railroader-a brakeman. | first
saw him in Fort Worth. He is ) fe-t
inches high, light hair, blue eyes,
light complexion. When he his had
beer he gets red. He has a sandy
is between q and 2S years
old and weighs about 135 pounds.
He wore big black hat on the night
Of the robbery, and | wore the sIme
kind of a hat. | threw away the
overcoat | wore on the night of the
robbery in a creek. He told me TO
10 so. He took me down to where
be had the pistols hid in the woods
near Denison. We did not touch the
mail car. We only cut off one car.
1t was about ten or fifteen minutes
from the time we first stopped the
train until We left it. / have never
been charged with any other offence.
"ANDREw TEMPLE"
Capt. Knight says, by way of ex-
planation of the above statement,
hat the party Mitchell mentioned is
undoubtedly burlington, alias West,
alias Mitchell, who is under arrest
1t Boonville, Mo-, charged with
he murder of sheriff. i,
'Turlington," he says, "dropped
enough information about this case to
satisfy us that Temple was concerned