The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1892-07-20

warm reception. Detective John j.
Kinney. chief ot the Missouri. Kan
sas aud Texas secret service, accom-
panied by eight picked men, was the
force selected to thwart the robbers.
Kinney and his assistants took pos
session Of the smoking car on the
train No. 2 yesterday afternoon for
Adair, where the train was due at
9:45. Three quarters OF an hour
prior to that hour several strange
men masked. drove into Adair i'll
spring wagon. They halted i'll front
of the depot aud allghted. An in,
slant later all entered the building
and with the aid OF Wincnesters
pointed in the face OF the station
agent, ransacked the Office of the
station of all its money and va
euables. Having accomplished this.
the robbers sat down in the station
and coolly awaited the arrival of
train No. ,
The story of the expected attack
on the express car attached to this
train has already been told.
! The express officials here are Who'll
ly at loss to explain the poor show
ing made by Capt. Kinney and his
men. They We're armed thoroughly
for the anticipated encounter and
; the utmost disgust is expressed that
all the robbers escaped without a
scratch, while three of the officers
party and two outsiders We're wOun
: ded Local agent Morsemau de-
| nies that the robbers got a large
sum Of money, but others positively
: assert that the amount is between
l $4,000 and S75, 700.
CowARRDLY DETECTIVES.
Mr.. J. T. Heavu OF st. Louis ar
rived Il: the Coates vest erday from
the southwest. where he had been
on Il business trip. He was one OF
the passengers on the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas train that was heldup
/ OF Adair. L T., Thursday night. He
: was awake and witnessed the entire
1 fight and has some very strong op-
inion about the detectives and Iudlan
IL police on board the train. He char.
acterizes their conduct as cowardly
in the extreme and deserving of uni
yersal condemnation. In speaking
of the very exciting episode MI
= Hearn said:
1T was about 10 clock and even J
t one in the sleeper had retired except
10 lug myself. We were bowling along
right merrily on the other side o
u Adair, and on stopping at that sta
o ton l glanced out at the window
'e saw some rather uncertain figure
10 and wagon standing uear. The
% came few scattering shots and thel
80 the batch of detectives piled out Q
the coaches Inside of ten minute
there were no less than 200 shot
+ exchanged and during that time tn
Of passengers were secreting their va
~ uables or crouching low to escap
10 the rain of bullets from all sides
O. Then the firing let up little an
sc the valiant detectives cane tumblin
Oh in pell NELL, any way to reach shelte
ng Chief Detective Mckinney had
T. slight wound in the part Of the lie
M arm. There seemed to be about fl
on teen of the detectives and early
us the evening I had noticed them an
rd remarked what fearless looking fe
or lows they were. Everyone locke
the typical bad man and they wei
ny armed to the teeth.
he a passenger asked the chef
Are the men were gone and he answert
rs. thev were in the car. Then som
one asked why the detectives We
not outside trying to prevent Il
i'd robbery and they made scant repl
ex- Several suggested that they cou
,ht wavlay the robbers as they emerg'
It's. from the car, as by actual cou
he there We're only seven of them, t
ZEN the detectives only replied by fndil
an safe places behind the seats and
ng. the rear platform. l had placed Il
uld watch and pocketbook under Il
an edge OF tle carpet on the floor