The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-09-21
TRAIN ROBBERS FOOLED.
THE SANTA FEES CHICAGO Elk
PRESS READY FOR THEM.
CAD THE CARS FULL OF ARMED MEN
One of the Robbers spied ON His Conn
panions Two of the DssperadOes
Caught After a Hot FusiIade-
Ono OF Them Fatally Wound
ed Engineer Prescott
Shot in the Shoulder.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Sept. 19.-The
Colorado and Utah express on the
Santa Fe railway, which arrived in
Kansas City from Chicago at o'clock
this morning, was held up by five
men at 2:1O O. clock this morning
mile east of CORN, Mo-, IT'S miles east
of Kansas City. Engineer William
Prescott of Fort Madison, Iowa, was
shot in the shoulder by one of the
bandits, but not dangerously wound
ed. The hold-up was expected and
Chief Detective J. j. Kinney of the
Santa Fe secret service was on the
train with squad of armed men.
They opened fire on the bandits, and
after twenty minutes delay the train
proceeded, leaving Kinney and his
men in pursuit of the bandits
Early this morning two of the ban
dts were caught at Memphis, Mo.
Their names are Charles Abrams and
Lincoln Overfield. Abrams is wounded
in six places and will die. The men
who held up the train are farmers,
living three miles north of ArbelIa
Mo.
The Santa Fe officials in Chicago
had been given notice of the robbery.
1t was to have taken place Saturday
morning, Septem Der s. When the
train reached Kansas City this morn
ing man who is supposed to have
warned the Santa Fe officers was
handed over to the Santa Fe officials
and te ken to hotel on Union avenue
where he registered under fictitious
anne and went to bed. He will re-
main in Kansas City until the arrival
of Chief Detective Kinney of the
Santa Fe secret service.
1.-THE railway and express company
officials have been expecting the rob-
berry for three weeks. When the
train left Chicago at o'clock
last evening railroad and AK
press detectives, all walking arsenals,
climbed on at various stations. Chief
Detective j. j. Kinney, of the Santa
Fe, with G. c. Montgomery, his right
hand man, boarded it at Joliet. At
Streator they were joined by two more
line for twenty days. j. A. Mathews,
a spy among the robbers for the last
two weeks, getting the news of the
robbers plans, put in an appearance
at GaIesburg. He brought news that
the would be robbers met early in the
day and decided to leave their hiding
place, near Memphis, Mo, at $50
o'clock last night and make their at
tempt to get rich at the expense of
the express company. They expected
to make haul of at least $50, 600, tn e
Monday run being always much
heavier than any other day of the
week.
BILL DALTON's OLD RIFLE.
When the train reached Fort Mad
ison, Iowa, shortly after midnight, G.
w. Stockton of Kansas City, division
superintendent of the Wells Fargo
Express company, got into the ex-
press car. He carried sawed off
Winchester with a history. 1t be-
longed to Bill Dalton, AMI it was to
be poetic justice to turn it loose upon
followers of the dead desperate.
With him were four men who had
been with him for several days. A
council of war was held. It was first
proposed to ambuscade the force be-
hind barricade of trunks and boxes
in the express car and allow the rob-
bers to enter. The messenger was to
throw up his hands and knee1 down
to open the safe. Then he was to fall
on the Iioor and then-the sawed off
Winchesters would begin to bark.
Two men were to be stationed on the
engine to protect the trainmen and
another was to guard the rear. This
scheme was finally abandoned.
PLANS OF THE SURPRISE.
The plan adopted was this: De-
tectives Kinney and Montgomery
boarded the engine. superintendent
Stockton and two of his good shots
tarried in the express car. But it was
in the forward end of the smoking
car that the forces were massed. A
partition and door -incloses half
dozen seats and shuts off the rest of
the car from it. In this part of the
car a dozen men were planted. Each
had sssawed off, Winchesters and
cartridges, each especially prepared
with two dozen buckshot by Superin-
tendent Stockton. There was but one
passenger in that compartment and he
was asked to take a seat in the chair
car. as they were going to sweep"
at 2 o'clock, when Sheriff Salin of
Scotland county, Missouri, elm bed
on board all details of the sur
prise party were arranged. There
to be looked out for and pro
tected- He was the spy. According
to the report brought in by Mathews,
the spy would endeavor to be the one
who tagged the train If so. one tor
pedc would preeede the swinging of
the lantern. If another there would
be couple OF the tiny bombs
THE SIGNAL FOR THE ATTACK
Pullman car conductors and porters
sought places of safety and even the
trainmen did not expose themselves
unnecessarily. In the little compart-
ment filed with armed men the lights
were out and the windows were up. In
each seat were two men sitting side
ways, the muzz1es Of their guns pro-
truding Just a tribe over the window
sills. Behind them stood others with
Winchesters resting across their arms.
They were waiting for the torpedo
Out from between the two high
eznbankEnents just one mile from
CORN sped the train One minute
more and the anxious watchers would
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