The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-04-04
ALExANDERs CONFESSION
He Pleads Guilty of the Rob.
berry Of Frank Ellis Mon.
day Night.

tiers at Nevada Wednesday evening
and the resemblance of one of them
to the description of w. b. Alexan
der. wanted here for the robbery OF
$3.50 from his roommate, Frank Ellis
on Monday night. was chronicled in
Friday evenings BAzoO. Marshall DE
Long left Thursday evening for Ne.
vada intending to bring in the prise
ner Friday morning, but he failed to
arrive until that evening.
The prisoner was the man wanted
and the man arrested with him and
giving the name of Charles johnson,
confessed to having assisted in the
robbery here. johnson had been ar
rested on a charge of burglarizing a
house near Nevada on last Saturday
night, and the officers objected to
Marshal belong bringing him here
for trial, as they had a good case
against him there. The marshall re-
manned until the afternoon train try
ing to get the sheriff to let him have
johnson also, but finally had to come
without him.
On the arrival in this city
Alexander was at once taken before
Justice Fisher and his preliminary
trial set for 2 o'clock yesterday after
noon.
Frank Ellis, from whom the money
was taken, swOre out a warrant charg-
ing Alexander with grand larceny.
Alexander plead guilty, waving the
examination and was bound over to
the grand jury which sets tomorrow.
The bond was fixed at $500 and he
went to Jail.
Alexander will make an effort to
secure the money from his father,
who is a prosperous Englishman, to
repay Ellis who had brought the $50,
all he had, here, to pay his tuition at
Browns telegraph school. He will
plead guilty and hopes to secure a
light sentence. He still had s23 in
his pocket when arrested and the
court turned it over to Ellis.
The story of the robbery is well
known to the readers of the BAzoo
and only the tale of their wandering
after leaving Sedalia until
their capture Wednesday evening
remains to be chronicled. According
to Alexander he met Charles johnson,
who has a half dozen aliases, on last
Monday afternoon, somewhere on
Ohio street. johnson had some money
and as they had met two years ago in |
Platte City, they went to drinking as
of old. Alexander went to his room
at 129 Pacific street, about 5 o'clock
that evening and was visited by John
son before supper, when he told him
about the money which Ellis had.
After supper they went out and
drank all the liquor they could pay
for, coming back and going to bed
about l O'clock Monday morning.
Alexander claims to have gone to
sleep at once and was awakened by
johnson about 2:30, who told him he
had gotten the money and to come on.
The two got into a box car on the
south bound NJ. X. 4 T. train which
left here about $3.50, and got off at
Clinton. They were there all day
drinking, and went to Nevada that
night.
Before they left Sedalia they d.
vided the money, Alexander claiming
to have received s65 of the $50.
While at Clinton he spent s1S for a
suit of clothes and 50 for a valise.
This with the 1923 he had when ar
rested and IS he claims he spent for
a ticket from Nevada to Kansas City
amounts to $40. The balance be says
was spent for whisky.
They arrived in Nevada Tuesday
night and were around the streets
until the next evening, when john
son, who had been in Nevada on Sat
urday before was arrested for the bur-
glary of house north of that city.
Alexander was also run in as sus-
picious character and his identifica-
ton followed. Only SO was found on
johnson when arrested but Alexan-
der claims that he has $50 hidden in
the fingers of his gloves which was
not found by the officers. II
Alexander's career in full would
read like dime novel and space will
not allow of it.
The Y. NJ. c. A. did not
nor would they try to per-
suade Ellis not to prosecute
as one and all think he should suffer
the penalty OF his felony.
johnson, who was arrested at Ne
vada, and who assisted in the rObbing
here, is an all-around crook and sails
under several aliases. He served