Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-26
PERRY'S OWN STORY.
The Robber of the Rochester Express
Talks of His Adventure.
HIS FIGHT WITH THE MESSENGER.
After the Crime He Rode in the Same Car
Seat With q Detective.
A CoLoRED MANS EAR TELLS 4 TALE
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,


LYONS, Feb. 25.-Perry, the train rob-
full account of his methods. In his story
he said:
When got inside the car 1 leveled my gun
at McInerney, and as did so he raised his
revolver and held it leveled at me with both
hands at arms length. He drcked his head
as 1 fired, and the ball grazed his forehead.
He dropped his revolver and reached for
the bell cord. When he had pulled the cord
twice, and while attempting to pull 1t a
third time, fired and shot him in the arm.
After 1 got into the car a gust OF wind
blew ont the light. / was suspicious that he
would feel for his gun, and for moment
expected a bloody fight. I gathered some
papers, struck match, and. throwing 1t
upon the pile of papers, quickly stepped to
one side, expecting him to blaze away, but
looked around and could not see the messen-
ger anywhere.
The Express Messenger Surrenders.
Climbing over the express matter, found
the messenger hiding near the end OF the
car. 1 commanded him to light the lamp.
yes" lie said, "I'll do anything you say
if you will not kill me-" He said he was
POOR boy and thoughta good deal Of his
position, and had tried to do his duty.
The train slowed up at Port Byron, and
bade the messenger goodby. swung up to
the roof, took Off the rope, and, packing my
valise on the platform, got of just before
the train stopped. 1 walked along the
track to fagman's shanty and stood there,
reported arrest at Washington was riding
in a railroad train in the same seat with
detective. He was reading paper, and
said:
81 see they have caught the Utica express
robber Perry, in Washington, VT"
ais that so?' 1 said" II am glad of that.
He ought to have been caught before"
A special from Syracuse says: The ear of
the negro which Oliver Curtis Perry car
ried will go to prove that the train rob-
ber's father and stepmother has been har-
boring him for week before his latest
escapade. The story of the ear came under
the eve of Mrs. Matte Ayliffe, a neighbor
of the Perry's, who said to-day: --
Tbs Story of n Negro's Ear.
A week ago last Monday afternoon called
at the residence of MI Perry and was intro
duced by MI. Perry to a young man whom Mr..
Perry said was Mr.. Hopkins The descrip-
tion of this young man tallies exactly with
the printed description of Train Robher
Perry. In the afternoon dropped in again.
Mr.. Perry brought out a bottle, which con-
tanned an ear of a colored man preserved in
alcohol. He said it belonged TO Mr.. Hop
kins. Miss Jessie Soule was in the room and
saw it, too.
The last saw of Mr.. Hopkins was on Sat-
urday afternoon. 1 called on him Sunday
twice but he was not there, and asked If
her boarder had gone. She said he had. The
next morning, after the story came out in
the newspapers, l called at Mr. Perry's
house again, but Mrs. Perry greeted me very
coolly and left
This morning Mrs. Perry came into my
house, and in very a9itated manner in
formed me that if 1 didn't stop talking about
her family she would have me arrested for
slander. 1 had said to a couple of neighbors
that thought Hopkins was none other than
Perry, the robber, and had also told about
seeing the bottle containing the ear.