St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-04
KILLED A MESSENGER,
But Failed to Get Into the
Money Safe.
A DARING TRAIN E0LB-UP
The Bandits Rob PASSENGERS
Right and Left.
A QUART OF WHISKY TAKEN
The Messenger Shot While
Going to a Smoker.
A QUART OF WHISKY TAKEN
ESCAPE OF THE DEsPERAD0Es.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, Sept. 3.-Near
the little station of Mound Valley, Kan,
at 4 O'Clock this morning, three desper-
ate men, who understood their busi-
ness, held up the st. Louis u San Fran
cisco passenger train due to arrive in
this city at 9:45 O'Clock this forenoon.
Express Messenger Chapman was shot
and killed. Failing to secure money
from the express car, the bandits
robbed the passengers in a manner
much after the style of the James
Younger gang i'll their palmiest days.
The work was done with the cool
deliberation of typical border outlaws.
1t is estimated the amount OF
booty secured fell not very far
short of 500. Watches, diamonds
and other valuables were taken along
with the cash. Women were not mo-
Tested by the plunderers because of
their sex. Everything in sight was
taken. One passenger was made TO give
up quart of whisky. The exact man
ner in which the express messenger lost
his life is not known, but he fell
VICTIM TO BULLET
from one OF the outlaws deadly Win
chesters, and his story is left untold.
The train, III charge of Conductor Mills
arrived in this city at II o'clock this
morning, nearly two hours late.
Throughout the robbery only two
shots were fired, and they were
the ones that blotted out the
life of the express messenger.
Rufus Cone, chief of police of Wichita,
was passenger OH the train. The train
crew who went through the hold-up,
with the exception of Baggage Master
Leitwein, reside at Monet. and did not
come through to this city. Among all
the passengers and trainmen only two
pistols conld be found. The men who
had them were Chief Cone and the col
ored porter. The train crew, as well as
the passengers. were robbed. The only
ones unmolested were those who were
travelling i'll the sleepers. The bandits
escaped. The work was performed
with the coolest deliberaticn. The rob-
bers boarded the engine at Mound
Valley. small station sixteen miles
west of Oswego, Kan,
ARMED WITH WINCHESTERs,
The engineer was ordered to pull out
and keep moving until ordered to stop.
About one and half miles out of the
little station the leader called on the
ta
crew was robbed. and next the passen-
gers in the smoking and chai- cars were
relieved of money, watches. jeweIry
and everything of any value. Women
were spared. Chief Cone and the por-
ter of the sleeper had taken up a posi-
tion so they were shielded, but could
see the door, and waited ready for bat
tie, but the robbers gave that car the
| go-by and escaped in the darkness.
When the train reached Oswego
sheriff's posse was organized
and started in pursuit of the
bandits. By killing Express Mes
senger G. A. Chapman at Mound
Valley, the robbers shut themselves out
of the Wells-Fargo safe. When the
train halted at that little station Chap
man left the express car to &C into the
smoker. The express car was '.blind''
no doors at the end-and the messen-
ger got out on the platform and started
toward the rear of the train. The rob-
bers, who were on the engine. thought
he was going to give an alarm, and
opened fire OF him. He was shot
through the head. The train was
forced to move on and leave him living
on the depot platform. After the ban
dts had abandoned the train it went
back arter the dead man. Chapman
was twenty-four years old. and lived at
Joplin. He leaves wife. to whom he
was but recently married.