The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1893-09-30
ROBBERS SHOT DOWN,
TWO BANDITS KILLED AND
FOUR CAPTURED.
The Burlington Road Got Wind of a
Contemplated Hold-Up and Laid a Trap
for the Highwaymen which They Fell
Into-Were Betrayed by Decoys.


Into-Were Betrayed by Decoys,
ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Sept, 20. Six des-
perate train robbers ran into a trap
set by the Kansas City, st. Joseph and
Council Bluffs railroad officials Sunday
night and, in consequence, two of the
bandits are dead and four in Jail.
The outlaws who were killed, the un-
doubted leaders of the band, were:
FRED KoHLER, aged 10, who lived with his
young wife at 1915 South Tenth street.
HUGO ENGLE, step-son OF Henry Gletze,
proprietor OF the Occidental hotel.
N. A. Hurst, Charles Fredericks and
VIII Carver were captured, but they
were decoys in the employ of the COM
pany.
Henry Gleitze, the sixth and last
member of the gang, was captured at
$50 o'clock yesterday morning. officers
tracked him from the scene of the
hold up to the house of Mary Elsner
in South st. Joseph. His pockets
were full of ammunition and three
fingers of his left hand had been shot
off. He denied strenuously that he
had taken any part in the attempted
robbery, but refused doggedly to talk
further. The police are confident that
he is the man, and have him securely
locked up at headquarters.
Just before the train was due to
leave this city the officials of the road
learned of the plot to rob it and laid
their plans to Illustrate the robbers
and capture them if possible.
The regular train was held at the
depot and a dummy, similar to it in
hau m m
board squad of sixteen policemen
heavily armed.
When the train reached the water
tank, three miles north of the city. as
was anticipated, it was tagged, and
the engineer, obeying his orders,
brought his train to standstill at
once.
When the robbers ordered the ex-
press messenger to open the door they
threatened to blow up the car with
dyna mite, one of them saying, "Open
up and be d-n QUICK about it or we'll
blow the car up with dynamite. Open
up or we'll kill you" They had two
large sticks of dynamite and each was
wrapped up in two or three copies of a
newspaper. To each of the sticks was
attached fuse about three feet long.
This fuse connected with. fulminat-
ing cap.
It was known to the officers that
dynamite might be used and it was at
first proposed to let the robbers use
some of 1t before firing upon them.
Before leaving St Joseph, however,
Chief Broder decided that it would be
very dangerous and concluded to take
no chances lie instructed Callicote
to open the door before the robbers
had chance to explode the stuff.
Chief Broder says there was enough
dynamite to blow the car into
splinters, and his action now proves
to have been a wise one.
Four of the men leaped into the car,
the other two remaining outside. One
of these latter was Henry GleitZe and
the other was Fredericks.
When the men entered the car, the
officers raised up and, covering them
with their guns, ordered them to
throw up their hands. Instead of
obeying, the robbers began firing at
| the officers and in a minute battle
was on.
At the first fire Hurst, Fredericks
and Carver dropped to the ground to
prevent being shot
Engle leaped from the car and ran
for the brush on the east side of the
train, from where he continued to
shoot till discovered, and Kohler,
| whose Job was to stand outside and
| keep the passengers from coming out
| of the cars, was on the east side of the
train also and he poured deadly fire
into the express car and coaches, while
Henry Gleitze. who was on the west
side Of the train, fred several shots al
the officers in the express and mail cars
| and then ran.
| Kohler proved to be a most desper-
| ate man. He Continued to shoot until
he fell over dead. He directed the
most of his shots toward the first
coach from which officer Hayes on the
platform was trying to kill him.
Engle fell soon after Kohler was
killed., and, when picked up, was
found to be mortally wounded He
was shot twice in the back of the
head and his brai-s were oozing out
The body of kohler was sent tc
Sfienfaden's undertaking shop anc
Engle was taken to the baggage room
at the Francis street depot. In &
short time his mother was informed
and ran down to the depot. Wher
she returned to the baggage room II
cohpany with two men she threw
herself upon her sons body ant
shrieked his name time ana again
She clasped his bloody head in hel
arms and moaned over him for some
minutes. She was finally induced tc
90 home, and her sons body was sem
to the Occidental hotel about o'clock
He died Just after he arrived, having
never regained consciousness from the
moment he was shot.
Hugo Gleitze was the son Of wido"
named Engle, who married Henry
Gleitze, proprietor of the Occidental
hotel he was known as Plug
Engle or Gleitze, and was considered
to be generally tough, but 1T was no
believed that he had nerve enough t.
attempt job of train robbing. HI
was a heavy. dark complexio1ed mar
about 90 years old
Henry Gleitze or Engle, is an ex
convict