Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-31
Glendale, Mo-, Train Robbers
Captured.
The Leader Of the Gang Ar
rested in Los Angeles.
A Female Accomplice in Custody in
San Francisco.
The Capture OF other Members of the
Band Now Comparatively Easy.
Albert ID. Sly's Career
of Crime.
Associated Press Dispatches.

ASsOclateQ fr05S Dlspatcnes.
Sr. LOUIS, Dec. 30.-The leader of the
gang who robbed the Adams express
messenger at Glendale, Mo-, the night
of November 30th, together with his
female accomplice, are under arrest in
San Francisco, and the capture of the
remainder of the gang seems only a
matter of time. The leader is Adelbert
D. Sly, a noted ex-Missouri convict. The
latest series OF exploits by Sly and his
gang begsn with the robbery of the
Omaha street-car barns last October.
The same month they robbed the Kan
sas City car barns; then came the rob-
berry OF the Pacific Express company ON
the Missouri Pacific, near Omaha, No
vember 4th, and the American Express
company near Western Union Junction,
Wis, November 18th. In all these Sly
was the leader, and the engine of war
was almost invariably dynamite.
After the Western Union Junction
robbery William Pinkerton found that
Sly, in 1888, while in the employ OF the
American Express company at st Joe,
{ defaulted with a package containing
10000. After long search he was ap-
pretended in California, returned to
Missouri and sentenced to seven years
in the Missouri penitentiary. On being
released from the penitentiary he asso-
eiated himself with gang of rough
burglars, their headquarters being in
Kansas City and Omaha.
A quiet investigation was begun, and
Sly was located in st. Louis few days
81 Io1a "a
being thought he was connected with
the Western Union junction robbery.
Chief Harrigan learned from furni-
had been fitted up for four men and one
woman. The gang disappeared from
the house three days after the Glendale
robbery, leaving the furniture behind
them. Their baggage was traced to the
depot, thence to Omaha, where the
party split, taking different routes west.
From the descriptions of the fugitlves
no doubt was left in the minds of the
police and detectives that Sly was their
leader.
On Saturday last man answering
Sly's description was arrested by Rob-
ert Pinkerton, in the Los Angeles post
office. He denied that his name was
Sly, saying it was A. S. Denton. That
clinched matters, as Sly's full name is
Adelbert Denton Sly. In his possession
was found $1,000, lot of personal prop
erty and watch taken from Messenger
Mulrennan of the Adams express at
Glendale.
Siy's arrest was kept quiet until to-
day, with the view Of getting some OF
the balance of the gang. This hope was
partially realized today, when, as an
nounced in press dispatch from San
Francisco, a woman calling herself Flor
ence Waterman, whom detectives assert
is connected with the gang, was arrested
in that city. The officers feel confident
now that it will be comparatively easy
task to secure the rest OF the gang.
!, Sly's avowed ambition is to be Sec
ond Jesse James, but aside from his
daring and utter disregard of distinction
of meum and 4tuum, his most notable
characteristic is his sIngularly abstem-
ious habits.
The other men associated with Sly
in the ROBBERY are equally desperate,
and we'll known to the police. Marion
Hedpeth, whose wife or mistress was
today arrested in San Francisco, was
frat connected with the affair by local
detectives under Chief Desmond.
Another man whom the detectives
want for, robbery, but who is still at
large, is l.. R. Wilson of Omaha, man
of notorious character, who has been
concerned in several affairs, but always
managed to escape prison.