People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-09-29

Of. JOSEPH, MO, sept. ZO.-OlA ueS-
perate train robbers ran into trap
set by the Kansas City, St. Joseph and
Council Bluffs railroad officials last
night and, in consequence, two of the
bandits are dead and three in Jail.
while officers are in close pursuit of
the sixth and his death or capture is
certain. The outlaws who were
killed, the undoubted leaders of the
band, were:
FRED KOHLEa aged 49, who lived with his
young wife at 1873 South Tenth street
HUGO ENGLE, step-son OF Henry GleitZe,
proprietor Of the Occidental hotel.
N. A. Hurst, Charles Fredericks and
Will Carver were captured, but they
were decoys. The fugitive is Henry
Gleitze, half brother to Engle.
The officers of the road had known
since August II that an attempt would
be made TO rob the train and careful
preparations were made to capture the
outlaws when they should make the
attempt. Yesterday word was re-
ceived by Detective ?. I. Locke that
the robbers were ready to make their
raid last night.
General Manager W. C. Brown was
in his Office and took charge of every
thing and he called to his aid Superin.
tendent e. NJ Hohl, Sheriff C. w.
Carson, Deputy Sheriff John Brown
and Chief of Police John Broder. The
last named sent for Officers Roach,
Rice, HALEY, John Martin, Nancy,
Long, Kendrick, Carson, Clayborne,
Scott, Kieffer Hayes and Dan Shea,
and all were at the depot early wait
ing for the regular train from Kansas
City on the road which was to have
left at ll:40.
Mr.. Brown at first decided to send
out the regular train aut rlace the
officers upon il, but conclu Dr.; that it
would be unsafe to risk tn Dasaen-
gers in a battle with the r.5UerS and
at the last moment instructed SUPER
intendent liohl to make up dummy
special and run it out on the time of
the regular train, No. 3. This con-
sisted of d mail car, express car and
SIX coaches, the two latter darkened
to represent the appearance
of sleepers. Engineer Lee Wright
and Fireman Victor Wise were
in the cab and Conductor
John Hardenstein HAD charge. In the
mail car were Sheriff Carson, Deputy
Brown and number of policemen. In
the express ear were Chief Broder and
portion of his force, while the rest
of his officers were scattered through
the other cars. Engineer Caliicote
was pressed into service as an express
man He wore overalls and an empty
safe and some empty boxes were put
in his car TO give 1t the appearance of
an express car In the first coaches
were w c. Brown, Mr.. Hohl and Su-
perintendent Sanford of the Adams
EXuress company.
When the train reached Schutzen
park, short distance this side of the
water works, man stepped out on
the track and swung a red lantern.
Engineer Wright stopped his engine
and he and the fireman were at once
covered by a masked man with shot
gun, and was ordered to 60 back to
the express car. Wien they reached
the car two of the robbers pounded on
the door with their guns and ordered
the messenger to O. en- up. Chief
Broder and his men were concealed,
behind the safe and the empty boxes.
+ THEY HAD DYNAMITE.
When the robbers ordered the ex-
press messenger to open the door they
threatened to blow up the car with
dynamite, one of them saying, "0pen
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 co; les of
newspaper. To each of the sticks was
attached fuse about three feet long.
This fuse connected with fumiuat-
ing cap.
1t was known to the officers that
dynamite might be used and it wa at
first proposed to let the robbers use
some of it before firing upon them
Before leaving St Joseph, however,
Chief BREEDER deciiej that it y ould 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
spiinters, and his action nov proves
to have been a wise one.
Four of the mln leaped into the car,
the other two rea.aining outside. One
OF these latter vas Henry Gleitze and
the other was Fredericks.
When the men entered the ear, the
officers raised mp and, covering them
with their guns, ordered them to
throw up their hands. ms cad of
obcylag, the robbers began firing at
the olieers and in a minut. battle
was On.
At the first fire Hurst, Fredericks
AMI Garver dropped to the ground to
lrgv Mt being shot
uviLAw K0HLER's RARE NERVE.
Eagle leaped from the car and ran
for the brush on the east de of the
train. from where he continued to
shoot ill discovered, and Kohler,
whose job was to stand outside and
keep the passengers from coming ont
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 Gieitze. who was on the west
dc OF the train, fred several shots at
tue officers in the express and mail cars
and lhen ran.
kohIer proved to be a most desper-
ate nan He continued to shoot until
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