The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-02-02
A GLENDALE ROBBER.
Jimmy Francis, Who Was KILLED
in Kansas, the Fourth Mem
Der Of the Gang.

The Republic Gays that Jimmie
Francis Of Lamar, Mo-, train robber
who was killed at Pleasanton, Kan.
Saturday morning while resisting ar
rest, was the m n known as NJ. 4 Of
the daring baud, who. on the night o.
November 30, held up the Frisco
passenger train at Glendale. st. Louis
county. and robbed the Adams Ex
press COmpany's safe Of is contents,
valued at 500, 900 He is one of the
men for whom warrants were issued
in st. Louis jus, prior to the arrest Of
Slye at Los Angeles, Cal.
The police officials of st. LOUIS and
the Pinkerton Detective Agency
have ben untiring in their efforts &c
capture Francis since his name and
identity be came known to them tive
weeks ago. Before that time he had
ben known as No H. but through
information obtained BY the -.
Louis police about that time, presnm-
ably from Mrs. Hedspeth, his exact
connection with the affair became
known. 1t is also claimed that Slye,
when arrested, also give up some evil
dence On Francis. A watch was kept
on his home a: Kansas c y, Kan, but
without avail.
When the gang separated Francis
hid out SONS where, end only returned
to Kansas City last Wednesday, leav-
ing again Friday afternoon on the
trip that proved to be his last one.
The detectives could not get a trace
OF him. 1t was learned that mail was
in the office in Kansas City, Kansas,
and the office was watched closely
but he did not call for it, and the
officers were watching his house hop
ing to catch him, when the news came
that he bad been killed. Francis
came home last week for a couple Of
days, but the Office did not know it,
and were inclined t. discredit the
statement. 1t was learned, however,
that the neighbors saw him Friday
afternoon when he was leaving with
Myers.
IAN that l can now say" said
Chief Hsrrigan, sis that Francis was
the fourth member Of the Glendale
gang. We now have proof positive
of his connection with the Glendale
gang. In what manner or from what
source we secured this information 1
can not now reveal, but there is no
doubt as to it's correctness.
81 will say, however, that our evil
dence shows that but four men had a
hand in the Glendale robbery, a.
though the first published reports
make the number six. Meyer has no
connection whatever with the Glen.
dale job. The names of the four
guilty men are Marion Hedspeth,
Adelbert Slye, Dink Wilson and
Jimmie Francis. One of these, Slye,
we have in custody; Francis is dead,
and Hedspeth and Wilson are still at
large" Francis was known to the
police of ST. Louis and Kansas City,
Kan and to the Pinkertons, as
clever and daring thief. He has
been under close police surveillance
ever since he went to Kansas City,
seven years ago, and detectives have
dOgged him about persistently. The
attention of the Kansas City police
was first directed toward him on his
arrival, but it was never known that
he was connected with any local jobs.
Francis was the partner and compan.
ion of Slye, and was with him in the
street car barn robberies in Kansas
City and Omaha and the robbery of
the hotel at st. Joseph, Mo.
He is described as being about %
years old, some 5 feet 6 inches high,
we'll proportioned and weighing some
145 pounds, possessed of q blond
beard and mustache and of pleasant
address. He was married some two
years ago to a pretty Kansas City girl
Of eighteen summers, whose sister was
the wife of Charles Meyers, Francis
partner in the Lamar robbery. The
wife, who is now . mother, resides
with her child on Nineteenth street
and Troost avenue, Kansas City. The
kilograms from Kansas City Saturday
stated that Francis was well connected
and . cousin of Governor Francis, but
this was denied by the governor, who
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