The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-07-22
He COrrOb0rates burlington III
Regard 10 the Pryor Creek
Robbery.
They We're the Only Two Con-
cerned, and They Did a Clever
Piece of Work.
Some Things Heretofore UneX-
planned Made Clear by the
Confession.

Turlingtou's confession t. Sheriff
Smith has been c0rrob rated in every
particular, and il can now be SET
down as very near.y correct that the
Pryor Creek robbery was planned and
perpe;rated by burlington and Ten
pie alone. A Dallas. Texas. dispatch
of the 18th, as follows, makes the
whole affair pretty pi. in:
United States Marshal knight ar
r sted last night bartender at Tenn
pie, this state, ON the charge of rob-
bling the north-bound passenger train
on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas,
at Pryor Creek. 1. 7, last November.
Capt. Knight, in connect n with the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas detective
force, has been quietly but con-
stantly working on the case for several
months, and be was the recipient OF
many congratulations for the manner
in which he followed the trail from
beginning to the end. After making
the arrest he said to Temple: "Your
partner (meaning burlington, alias
Vest, } has been arrested in Missouri
and gave the whole snap away" At
ter hearing this Temple weakened,
and at a preliminary hearing tie ore
Charles III. Lednum to-day he waived
a plea of The complaint and on his own
motion made the following statement
under oath:
"My name Is Andrew Temple. l
live at Fl. Worth. / met man
who went under the name Of
James Mitchell, but whose proper
name was Arthur Mitchell, at Fort
Worth. He came from Dallas. /
was working at the elevator, but was
not working that day. 1t was about
the 3rd or 4th of November, 1889.
He came over to where l was standing
at the bar. did not know him at
first, as he had shaved. He said he
wanted to see me, and we went into a
back room. He told me how could
make money without working. We
came to Dallas and stayed two days.
We then went to Denison, but as We
mad no money | went to work clean
ing the streets, and he went to work |
at something else. One night while
We were at the house he told me he
was not going to work any more. He
said he knew better way to make a
living, and | asked him how. WEI
went oyer to the depot and he said:
'What is the matter with holding up
1 train?" 1 expressed my fears. aud
ne treasured me. told him | was
green at the business, but would 60
With him, and he said he would see
ne out of it all right. We left Deni-
son that night. 1t was three or four
lays before the robbery. We got to
PIyor's Greek some time during Sat
lrday night. We went On a freight.
We got off at Pryor's Greek. He
;aid: This is as good a place as
any, We had some words with the
and Mitchell was about to
shoot MIN. / told him not to do so.
We remained around In the
woods that night. The next morn
ng we went to the section house and
Jaw another house, where we got some
hing to eat. There was a young
yirl, young man, an old man and
IN old lady in the house. We went
pack to the woods and lay down. /
ore the lining out of my overccat to
make masks. He told me to follow
him and to kill anybody who made a
rocked move. We went to the back
# the water tank where the hand-car
vas kept and l requested him to stop,
,ut he persuaded me to help him.
BE told me to tear the lining out of
ny overcoat to make masks. The
rain, north-bound, then came along
md whistled for the town. He said:
There she comes.' The train stopped
It the water tank and he got upon the
'ngine and threw his gun upon the
engineer. / got On the train with a
title gun, and he cursed me and told
ne to take out big gun. He made
he engineer 60 across the creek and
top there. He took the fireman on
me side and | took the engineer on
he other side of the train and un.
coupled it. Some one showed q Ian
ern and Jack shot it out. He com.
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