The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-09-02
Detectives FurlOng and Tut Pass
Through From Kansas City
on Business.
What the Two Gentlemen Have
to Say Regarding the Late
Train Robbery.

at 12:40 p. 10. Neither would state
his exact destination, but both re.
marked that they would return later
in the Gay.
"For Gods sake let me alone,
said Mr.. Tut, "fof / am tired Of see
ing my name in print in connection
with this Otterville affair. There is
nothing new in it, and that is all | eau
say"
Mr.. Furlong was not ccmmunica-
tive, either. "The robbers will be
captured" be said. 81 do not say
that will get them, but somebody
will and you can rest assured of that. "
Ii Mr.. Furlong expec's Bill Mason
to make the arrest he failed to say so.
The Kansas City Journal had the fol-
lowing in regard to the robbery:
Frank Tut, Of the Missouri Pacific
secret service, who has been at work
on the Otterville train robbery, re-
turned TO this city yesterday, and
talked about the great non-productive
hold-up.
eve are working on hot trails, and
only the delay attending the develop
ment of some details will prevent the
arrest of the train robbers within d
very short time. / do not think the
men will be at large more than twenty
four hours longer. although they may
not be captured inside of two or three
days. / do not believe it possible for
them to escape, as the whole country
surrounding the scene of robbery is
up 10 arms and on the alert, and some
of the shrewdest detectives in the
country are at work on the case.
"There were only two men engaged
in the robbery, and none but badly
frightened engineer and fireman have
claimed there We're more. This is
easily and positively proven, as there
were tracks of only two men, as plain
ly shown in the soft mud as though
imprinted in snow. These tracks led
from the scene of the robbery about a
mile west, and then were lost in some
meadow land and underground. Then
the tracks of one man were found
some distance beyond. and led to a
point about three miles west of OF
terville and two and half miles west
of the place where the train was
held up and here we found the pack
ages taken from the safe These
packages bad been opened, but as far
as has yet been ascertained, nothing
was taken from them. As stated
heretofore, these packages consisted
of vouchers and papers valueless to
outsiders, and some cheap jewelry, all
of which we found"
"The fellows were undoubtedly
nervy, and had either the engineer or
fireman, especially the latter, shown a
little cool judgment, one of those fellows
would have been badly hurt by jump
ing or would have been carried into
Sedalia and placed in custody. The
robbers have either had experience
or a great deal of nervy confidence in
themselves, as the manner in which
the entire work was done was
on the most approved style of
such business.
81 have come back to stay, as there
is no need of my staying on the
ground any longer. The case is in
good hands and will be wound up in
short order"
Thomas Furlong, chief of the Wa
bash secret service and also in charge
of that work for the Missouri Pacific
general offices, was in the city yester-
day, but disclaimed any connection
with the work on the Otterville case.
81 know very little about the case"
said Mr.. Furiong last evening, "be-
yond what has been published in the
papers. I have nothing to do with
any division cases unless sent out
from the general Office, and as yet no
such detail has been made. If tue
men now working on the case fail to-
find their men, then the probability is
that someone else will be put to work
on their trail. 1t may be that I will
be detailed, although from what L
hear rumored, the robbers will be be-
hind the bars inside of few hours.
The rumor that / have taken the case
in the interest of the express company
is based on foolishness, as am en-
ployed by the Missouri Pacific and
Wabash roads, and the Pinkertons
are employed by the express company
in all such cases.
''The head lines in the great Times
fake had rather misleading effect on |
me. All through was a reference to |
the splendid work of Detective |
Dickey, and from the moment I COM
menced to read the article I felt
pleased that Dickey had made such a
great hit. As ] read along down.