The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-09-26
WBNT AFTER GOLD
AND GOT COLD LEAD.
Another Daring but Fatal At
tempt at Train Robbery.
TWO 0FTHE BANDITSKILLED
Dynamite Enough to Blow a Car to
Pieces.
TWO OFTHE BANDITSKILLED
Non-Uuion Sailors Blown Up by Dynamite
in San Francisco--An Old Couple MUIR
dered in Their Bed-Bloody
Riot in New York.

ST. JOSEPH, Sept. PA bold attempt
at train robbery was cleyerly frustrated
just after midnight this morning. AS a
dead and three are now behing the bars
in Jail. OF the six men who attempted
the robbery, only one escaped.
The train which the bandits had at
tempted to rob, was passenger train No.
8 on the Kansas City st. Joseph, Council
Bluffs railroad, which left Kansas City at
9:05 p. m. Sunday night and which ar
rived here at 1890 Sunday morning.
The officials of the road had been noti-
fed that robbery OF the road had been
planned and they notified the police.
When the train arrived here, dummy
train was made up and sixteen police Of
fcers under command of the chief of police
were put aboard. In order TO thoroughly
deceive the robbers, the train was made an
exact duplicate of train No. 8 and con-
sisted of the engine and tender, an ex-
press and baggage car and the usual
coaches and Pullman. When the decoy
reached a point two miles north Of st.
Joseph the engineers attention was
aroused by lighted lantern moving to
and fro between the rails.
He obeyed the signal and soon six
masked men surrounded the engine and
presented a revolver at the engineer
head and another at the fireman IS, keep
ing them in subsection while the other
five men fastened on TO rob the express
car.
They ordered the messenger to open the
door, which he did forthwith, Three
bandits entered the car, leaving two with
out to guard. The policemen who were
guarding the train were distributed in
various cars, the majority OF them being
in the express car.
Immediately the three bandits who had
undertaken the work of robbing the car
entered the door the policemen ordered
them to surrender. The robbers were
taken entirely by surprise, but they
opened fire at once upon the police.
The police returned the fire and gen.
eral fusilade followed. About twenty
five shots were fired on both sides. When
the smoke had cleared away the lifeless
bodies of Kohler and Gleitze were lying
on the floor of the car. They had been
shot through the head. The bullet which
pierced Kohler's head produced instant
death. He mover stirred after be was hit.
Gleitze was still breathing, but he died
shortly after he was brought here.
Fredericks, the third robber engaged in
the fight, was not injured and was placed
under arrest. None of the officere were
injured.
While the fight was going on in the
car, those of the police not engaged in it
were looking after the two robbers who
had been left outside to keep watch. The
police quickly took them in and placed
them under arrest. The bandit who had
been detailed to guard the engineer and
fireman quickly realized the situation
when he heard the battle going on in the
express car, and promptly made his es-
cape, A detail of officers was put on his
track and quickly took up the pursuit
with every prospect of capturing the flu
gitive before dawn.
A remarkable feature of the fight in the
express car was the escape of all the off :
GERS from injury. The three robbers in
the car were each armed with brace of
revolvers and used them freely, but still
they did no damage. The bodies of
Kohler and Gietze were brought here
on the dummy train, which returned to
the city soon after the encounter. They
were taken to an undertaker's. The
prisoners, Fredericks, Hurst and Gard
ner, were brought here on the same train
with their dead comrades and were locked
up at the police station. All the robbers
lived here.
1t appears that the gang who were so
neatly foiled in the attempt to hold up the
Kansas City, st. Joseph d Council Bluffs
train last night has been plotting rob-
berries since early last August, but on two
or three occasions the plans went awfy,
owing to unforeseen circumstances. The
police and railway officials have been
kept informed of the robbers
intentions, and were prepared to
meet them on each occasion. Hearst,
Fredericks and Carver, the men placed
under arrest, it now appears were not
genuine robbers but decoys in the en-
ploy of the authorities, and as soon as
the firing began they dropped to the
ground from the car to avoid the flying
bullets.
The robbers had dynamite enough with
them to blow the car to pieces. They
threatened to use it unless the
door was opened. Sticks of dynamite
had fuses with Illuminating caps attached.
Fred Kohler, one of the dead robbers,
was only 10 years of age and leaves a
young wife. The other one, known as
Hugo Gleitze, is the stepson of Henry
Gleitze, the proprietor of the Occidental
hotel. His real name is Hugo Engel.
The escaped man is supposed to be the
son of Henry Gleitze.
Henry Geilze, said to be the sixth and
last member OF the gang, was captured at
$50 O'Clock this morning at the house OF
Mary Elsnes, on South st. Joe His
pockets were full OF ammunition and
three fingers OF his left hand had been
shot off. He denied taking any part in
the attempted robbery, but refused dog
gedly to talk further.
NoN-UNIoN MEN BLOWN UP.