The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-11-18
A Stern Chase Which Proved to
be Successful-H0w They
Were Caught.
The Suspects Brought to Sedalia
and Lodged i'm Jail by the
Detectives.
A Fatal COnfeSsiOn-an Admis-
sion That They Burglar
lied q Number Of
Farm Houses.

Detectives Tut and belong, yes
terday, arrested two of the men who
are suspected of belonging to the gang
of desperadoes who wrecked the Mis-.
souri, Pacific passenger train No. 3,
last Friday morning. The work Of
the officials was arduous in following
the trail and it is to their credit that
they succeeded in making the capture
in spite of seemingly unsurmountabie
circumstances.
The arrest was made four and one.
half miles north OF Pilot Grove and
was as clever a piece of ''hold opp as
can be imagined. The story Of the
pursuit has been published in the
BAzoo, and the details given are sub
stantialiy correct and do not need
repetition. In yesterdays issue De-
Long was left in the vicinity of Cliff.
ton City. He was there, and close
onto the wreckers. Early in the
morning be was joined by Frank
Tut, at Pleasant Green, and doub-
ling up pressed on to the rear of
THE FLEEING sCoUNDRELs.
The captured men used more than
ordinary generalship. They kent
away from the railroads and public
highways and steering clear OF farm
houses, it seems almost incredible how
the officers managed to keep track OF
them. Yet the scent was SO fresh thai
every mile travelled brought them
closer to their game. from the time
that the men left The Mt. Etna School
house they were so closely followed
that their capture would have been
accomplished sooner if they had not
taken "wcod route" While in ihe
woods one of the men left the party
and came direct to Sedalia and was
arrested by Officers Gossage and Will
bur 8. Murphy and locked up. He
was arrested on the charge of trespass
and given ten days sentence in The
calaboose, as a hold-over.
Tut and DeLoDg kept on after
the two men aud captured them as
stated. The arrest of the prisoners
was a very clever one and reflects
much credit upon the officers for get
ting the ''drop" first. There are two
tales about
THE ARREST
and the humorous side is told by the
alleged wreckers. Tut and belong,
after learning that the objects of the
pursuit were only one and oDe-half
miles down the road, In a piece of
timber, ahead of them, jumped into
their blackboard and drove rapidly
towards the place where the men were
supposed to be. When they reached
q point where an open field partly
surrounded by a hedge two men
stepped out of an opening in the
hedge and walked from them dIagon-
ally across the road towards a piece
of timber. Tut whipped up the horse
and drove directly up behind the men,
Both of the officers jumped from the
blackboard and placing their revolvers
close to the heads of the pursued told
them to hold up their b ,nds. They
held them up without hest
tatioR. They were quickly
handcutfed and searched. Two new
44-caliber revolvers and cartridge
belts were taken from their persons,
and the prisoners were marched back
to Pilot Grove, and then brought to
Sedalia at 5:45 o'clock last evening.
Upon the arrival of the officers in
this city they marched their prisoners
to the city Jail and locked them up in
cell No. 8. They gave their names as
Charles Charters and Bob Ferguson,
and residence New York City. Short
ly after the prisoners were locked up,
3 BAzoo reporter made them a visit
and they talked quite freely, yet
guardedly. 1t was quickly seen from
their conversation and cool demeanor
that they were men who belonged TO
the expert rank of criminals, whether
train wreckers or burglars. They told
A SMOOTH STORY.
about their wanderings in the
wilds of New Mexico. They said that
they were painters, paper hangers and
fresco painters and lived in New
York City. They left the metropo-
lis seven months ago and went to New
Mexico where they remained until a
short time ago, when they started FIR
home. They left Albuquerque with
about 800 between them and while
roughing it in Western Kansas Fer