The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-05-30
"BlACK BART"
Still at Large and Probably En-.
joying Himself At the
Worlds Fair.

| Inc lone roDDer VINO held up and
robbed the Pacific Express car, near
Pacific, No., on last Wednesday night,
is still at large and but very little
chance OF his ever being captured,
unless some one To whom he has un-
folded the robbery should give him
away. There was but enc man involv-
ell in the robbery. This is now settled
beyond a doubt, As the engineer, fire.
man, expressman and baggageman all
say that only one man was visible All
throughout yesterday and up to late
hour last night, hundreds of clews
have found their way to police head
quarters. Some give descriptions of
mysterious men on horseback who
were seen in some cases many hundred
miles away from the scene of the rob-
berry, while Others espied two mysteri-
Gus men talking to each other at a
depot near Omaha. As these clews
are OF not much importance to the
police they lay them aside.
The ground where the robbery Oc-
CURED was again visited yesterday by
Detectives Allender and Smith, and
carefully gone over in hopes that the
BLACK Bart" of the East. as he is now
called. should accidently have left
some clew behind him. Nothing that
would furnish a clew,. however, was
discovered. and at a late hour last
night the detectives returned to the
city with no information at all. The
robber was evidently a professional
and no farmer, as it Is supposed for
he has not left trace of any kind be-
hind, and has disappeared as if the
ground had swallowed him. Dctec-
tives Allender and Smith are working
in the dark, they not having any
material To 30 on.
Last evening the express messenger
Samuel Hammel. and Al Simmons.
the baggageman, called at police head
quarters and again related their en-
perience of the robbery. 1t was taken
down in writing, and WAS the same
that has already been published in the
Giobc- Democrat. The amount taken
by the rubber, So say the express peo-
pie, will not reach over $1,000. This,
however, Is not believed by the know.
ing ones, and it is the opinion that
the amount secured was in the neigh
borhood of $4,000. for the reason
that if the thief had not secured
number of packages containing cur
rency from the safe he never would
have dumped over $500 of the $1,000
bag of silver into corn field three
blocks from the robbery.
Information was given that on the
day before the robbery Young
man, who now answers the description
of the robber, went into the powder
store of Latin Il Rand, Second and
Pine streets. and wanted to purchase
some dynamite, claiming that he want
ell to use it to kill fish. When the
young man was informed by the clerk
that there was a law against such do
Ings, he appeared very col, and said
he knew that, but where he proposed
to kill the fish he knew it would be all
right, as he was acquainted with the
country and many persons in the Vi
cinity. The clerk informed
the police that the man
acted strangely, though very
cool. Similar inform alton came from
other powder dealers in the city, and
when the detectives got through with
the investigation, they concluded that
the purchasing of dynamite by young
as well as old people was daily oc-
currence, and that the one who
wanted to purchase the dynamite at
the Latin X Rand store was not the
robber.
The only reward offered for the
robbers capture so far has been 5000
and this was offered by the governor
The express officers have not as Vet
offered any reward. Globe Democrat |
Missouri PACIFIC IMPROVEMENTS.
The Missouri Pacific proposes to in |
crease and improve its facilities for
Worlds Fair traffic. In the /
first place. the time between st. Louis !
and Texas points will be shortened
from three to five hours. Tonight Il
new char service to Galveston and
new sleeping car service is to be put |
on train 80, which leaves the union
depot in st. Louis at $50 o'clock.
Other changes in the line of improve
ment are in contemplation and Gen.
eral Manager Doddridge proposes that
all shall be done that can he done to
make the Missouri Pacitic's service the
best attainable by the travelling pub
lie.
NJ, X. & T. CHANGES.
John w. Allen. general freight
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