Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-09-28
8 WARM RECEPTION.
t Il rendered Gang OF Train Robbers
In Missouri Whose Plans Were Knnwn

u WARM HECEPTlCN.
It Il rendered : Gang OF Train Robbers
In Missouri Whose Plans Were Known
Train Loaded with Oncera Two Of tho
Thieves Are Killed and Three Captured
ST.. JOSEPH. Mo-, Sept. 26. The Kan
sas City, St Joe & Council Bluffs rail
road foiled an attempt to rob one of its
passenger trains, killed two Of the bar
dts and captured three others at
Francis, TX miles from this city, at 1:3O
q. m. The dead are Ed Kohler and
Higo lndall. The captured men are
Frederick, Hersh and Harvey.
Train No. was the intended victim
1t left Kansas City at 9:O5 Sunday night
and arrived mere at 1890 Monday
morning. The officials of the road had
been notified that the robbery of the
road had been planned and they noti-
fed the police. When the train arrived
here dummy train was made up
and sixteen police officers under COM
mand of the chief of police were put
aboard. In order to thoroughly de-
ceive the robbers the train was made
an exact duplicate of train No. and
consisted of an engine and tender, an
express and baggage car and the usual
coach and Pullmans.
When the dummy reached point 2
miles north of st. Joseph the engineers
attention was arrested by lighted
lantern moving to and fro be-
tween the rails He obeyed the
signal and six masked men sur
rounded the engine. One of the six
mounted the engine, and presenting
one revolver at the engineers head and
another at the freman's held them in
subsection while the other five men
fastened to rob the express car. They
which he did forthwith. ~.
Three of the bandits entered the car,
leaving two without to keep guard.
The policemen who were guarding the
train We're distributed in the various
cars, the majority of them being
concealed in the express car. Upon
the three bandits who had undertaken
the work of robbing the car entering
the door the police within ordered
tnem TO surrender.
The robbers were taken completely
by surprise, but they opened fire at
once upon the police. The police re.
turned the fire and general fusillade
followed. About twenty-five shots
were fred on both sides. When the
smoke cleared away the lifeless bodies
of Kohler and Indall were found lying
on the floor of the car. Both had been
shot through the head. The bullets
which pierced Kohler's head produced
instant death. He never stirred after
he was hit. Indall was still brea thing,
but he died shortly after he was
brought here.
Frederick, the third robber engaged
in the fight in the car, was uninjured
and was placed under arrest. None of
the officers were injured. While the
fight was going on in the car those Of
the police not engaged in it were lools-
ing after the two 70 bbers 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
ana promptly made his escape. A de-
tail of officers was put on his track and
quickly took up the pursuit, with every
prospect of capturing the fugitive.
A remarkable feature of the fight in
the express car was the escape of all
the officers 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 Indall 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, Freder-
ick, Hersh and Harvey, were brought
here on the same train with their dead
comrades and locked up at the police
station. All of the train robbers lived
here.
The place picked out by the robbers
is an ideal one for train robbery. The
district Immediately north of st. Joseph
is not thickly populated. The road
runs through series of sand hills
along high embankments fanking the
Missouri river. In the riprapping that
is necessary to keep the river
banks intact at this place huge
piles of stone and rubble have
been dumped on the one side
and banks of sand flank the
tracks on the other The strip of land
is so poor agriculturally as to offer no
inducement to farmers, aud hence after
leaving st. Joe the passenger sees rath-
er q dreary prospect until the railroad
branches away from the river little.
The chances for robbers to escape at
this place are also good. The Missouri
river can be easily crossed and with a
boat in waiting a party of maraud-
ers could be in Kansas in half
an hour. Directly opposite st.
Joe and for Is miles down the
stream the only evidences of life
are jack rabbits. The territory be-
tween st. Joe and Atchison, Kan, was
a favorite one for desperadoes twenty
years ago, who would pillage in the
weather. sections of the state and lose
themselves III 1ue Icudn1Aess W dSIeS AOt
far away IN the adjoining counties.
Early Snowfall In England.
LONDON, Sept 20. "A severe snow
storm has. swept over northern Eng
land, following an unnatural spell OF
warm weather. Dispatches from Italy
say that the Apennines are covered
with snow. Meteorologists predict
that these early SHOWS are an indica-