The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-31
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The Leader Of the Glendale Robbers Taken
Into Custody

gang that robbed the Adams Express mes
senger (Mulrennan) on the Frisco road a.
| Glendale on the night OF Nov. 81, l.
under arrest. A female accomplice Is alsC
IN custody, and the capture of the re
mainder of the gang seems only matter
OF time, The leader turns out to be Albert
ID. Sly, noted ex-convict from the Mis-
souri, penitentiary. The latest series Of
exploits by Sly and his fellow bandits be
! gan with the robbery of the street cal
barns at Omaha in October, in which they
used dynamite and secured large amount
| of money. They committed a robbery on
| the Metropolitan street car barns in Kan
| sas City in the same month, and then
! came the robbery OF the Pacific Express
company On the Missouri Pacific railroad
near Omaha, on the night of Nov. 4, and
! the American Express robbery, near West
/ ern Union Junction, Wis, on the night OF
! Nov. u.
IN all these robberies Sly figured as the
| leader, and the engine of war, almost inva-
rIably, was dynamite. After the robbery
at Western Union junction, William a.
Pinkerton found out that Sly, in 1888,
while acting as driver for the American
Express company at St. Joseph, Mo-, dis
appeared with package containing so,
600. After long search Sly was appre-
hended in California by the Pinkertons.
lie returned to Missouri and was sentenced
~ SCAGl years III lie hISSOuIl DeHlbEuJldIy
at Jefferson City. On his coming out, 1t
was learned Sly became associated with a
gang of burglars, who made their head
quarters around Kansas City and Omaha.
On the theory that Sly might possibly be
concerned in the robbery at Western Union
junction, the Pinkertons quietly began an
investigation towards locating Sly, and
succeeded in tracing him to st. Louis a
few DAYS previous to the Glendale robbery.
ha JIt,l fCrn Cf
Chief-of Police Harrigan of st. Louis soon
Joined hands. Some days after the Glen
dale affair. Chief Harrigan received valua-
bic information from a furniture dealer,
who told him that he had fitted up house
on swan avenue for one woman and four
men, and that these persons had mySter-
iously disappeared three days after the
Glendale robbery. This party was finally
traced to Omaha, where they split up and
each took n different route, going west.
Accurate descriptions were obtained Of the
fuGitives, aud Sly's identity was proved
beyond question. As Robert a. Pinker-
ton, at this time, was in California, he as
sisted the San Francisco police in the
search for the fugitives 1t being ascer-
talned that Sly was in southern California,
PlnkertOn searched San Diego without
any results. He then went to Los Angeles.
For several days he kept up a search of the
saloons, gambling houses and places of
that kind, without success
Through Il breakage in the railroad there
had been no mail delivered for three days
at Los Angeles, and on Saturday last
Pinkerton, accompanied by Ross Whitta-
ker of the San Francisco detective force.
and an officer of the Los Angeles force
took up a watch in the postoffice and ex-
press offices at that point. On the after
noon of Saturday Pinkerton observed a
man in the postoffice at Los Angeles who
answered the description of Sly, and re-
sembled an old photograph which he had
very closely. Tapping him on the
shoulder, Pinkerton addressed him by the
name of Sly. Sly denied his identity and
said that his name was A. A. Denton
That settled it in Pinkerton's mind at
once, for Sly's right name is AdeI Albert
Denton Sly. He was at once taken into
custody and searched. In bis possession
was found two thousand dollars and a lot
Of personal property, including gold
watch taken from Messenger Mulrennan
of the Adams Express company, after the
had been injured by the explo-
sion of dynamite at the robbery on Nov.
30, at Glendale, Mo.
Sly refused to make any statement
whatever, knowing full well that, being
an eX-convict from the Missouri peniten-
tlary. his next Imprisonment, if convicted,
means life sentence, A search of the
house on Swan avenue gave Chief Harri-
gan positive evidence against the thieves,
as in the house was found pieces of paper
and other evidence. taken from the ex-
press car, which had not been thoroughly
destroyed
Adel Albert Denton Sly, better known in
he crooked fraternity as Bert Sly, is ma
i've OF Wisconsin, and was born and raised
lear Oshkosh. After committing the ex-
Dress robbery IN St. Joseph, for which he |
vas sent TO the Missouri penitentiary in |
84, his family moved to ST. Joseph. |
rom the penitentary in Missouri he has |
)een twice in custody in St. Joseph, once |
or highway robbery and once for bur |
5lary, and he is at the present time fugi- |
i've from justice from St. Josephs where !
lis wife and three children now reside. |
His father and mother live at Indepen- |
ience, No. His avowed ambition was to !
De a second Jesse James.
The detectives think that there were
i've men concerned in the Glendale rob-
)ery. Besides Sly, two others known to |
he police are man named Redspeth and
|. K. Wilson of Omaha Redspeth has
lone time in the Missouri penitentiary for
,rand larceny and has relatives residing at
'lsgay, Mo Marion Redspeth, who was
rrested in San Francisco today, was the
wife or the mistress of Redspeth
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 30-A woman,
,iving the name of Florence Weatherman,
ias been arrested by detectives here ii is
laimed that she not only has ac-
nOwledged being the wife of Marion |
tedpath, who is suspected of being one of
he gang OF train robbers which held up
he train at Glendale, Mo-. on Nov. 30, but
hat she has given information which may
ead to the arrest OF other members of the
ang, in addition TO Albert Sly. who was
rrested last week in Los Angeles.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 30-Sly when
rrested was running a saloon. Upon his
eTson was found watch stolen from
,xpress Messenger Umbrevins, whose car
'as also robbed of from $4,000 to $4,000
I coin. Sly will go back east without
'alting for reqUisition papers.