The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-05

smashed in the door and worked fully
half an hour trying to open the safe
Failing in this, they all went back and
robbed the passengers.
while they We're in my car some one
carrying a lantern appeared some dis
lance from the ca. One Of the rob-
bers said: Watch me put that light
out Then he fired in the direction OF
the light and it disappeared at once.
Another robber said: Well show the
Rock Island people that they can be
held UP as well as other roads. "
REWARD IS OFFERED.
Last night the Rock Island company
announced that they had offered a re-
ward of 81 900 for the arrest and conyic-
ton of the robbers. This will stimulate
the officers to give them hot chase.
Some good men are on their trail Of
ficer Bedford Woods of this city was
summoned by telegraph to join the
posse, and he has done so. 1t is
thought that he has some inside infor-
nation that is valuable.
ONE ROBBER KILLED.
4 special to the Eagle at midnight
says that the body of a man named
Sylvia had just been brought there by
Deputy Marshal Madsen. Madsen and
his posses of pearIy twenty well equip
ped men from FL Reno overlook the
bandits about thirty-five miles west of
Hennessey while they were looking for
a place to ford the Cimarron river and
so surprised them that the outlaws be-
gan to shoot at random MadSen' S
men drew steady beads on the outlaws
and at the first fire sylvia" was killed
dead and two others crippled. Three
of the posses came in to HenneSSey
with the body and the remainder pur-
10 rnhharG 7 les ct two If moi
all of the men were expected to be
captured before morning, as their
horses were all nearly played out and
were failing fast.
Sylvia is one of the men that held Ut
the train at Pond Creek q year age
when one of his party was killed by
Jake Harmon who was then a guard or
the Rock Island train. Sylvia was ar
rested at the time but escaped from
Jail afterwards and hasnot been ap-
pretended since.
BEDFORD HAS A DOUBT.
Detective Bedford Wood of this city
who was at the scene of the robbery
yesterday is inclined to doubt that the
robber killed is sylvia" He has al
most positive information that Sylvia
was at Fort Worth two hours before
the train robbery occurred at Dover
200 miles away and that it was impoS-
sible for him to get there
WHAT ABOUT WICHITA?
IT is not at all unlikely that one OF
two Of the robbers went down from
Wichita. y prominent Wichita lady
went down to Wellington on the trair
that was robbed. She wore very
valuable pair of diamond ear rings. 4
man that got on the train at Wichita
was noticed observing the ear rings 81
closely that the lady was very mucf
alarmed and SuSpicioned him to be {
lawleSS character The suspicion tina
one or more OF the robbers were from
Wichita was evidently shared by The
railroad officers who summoned De
tective Wood of this city to go to th'
scene of the robbery to investigate
IT WAS RATTLE SNAKE BILL.
A special to the Eagle at l O'Clock
this morning says that the dead rob
Der has been positively identified a.
Rattle Snake Bill instead of sylvia
This shows that Detective Wood o
this city was right when he told q re
porter for the Eagle that he knew
Sylvia was in Fort Worth. Rattl
Snake Bill has been a notorious charac
ter in Oklahoma since that countr,
was opened to settlement four year
ago. Recently he has been mixed III
i'll cattle theiving in the Cherokee strip