Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-04-05
TRAIN ROBBED IN OKLAHOMA
BANDITS HOLD Up A ROCK ISLAND
PASSENGER NEAR DOVER.
There We've Eight Men In the Gang md
They Robbed the Passengers Of sew
erai Hundred Doiiars-Possc
In Hot Pursuit.

knEflsher o. T.. April i.-tSpeclaiD The
south hound Rock Island passenger ex-
press train. In charge Of Conductor James
Mack. was held up north of the Cimarron
river. eight miles from king1sher and one
mile south of Dover, n water station. Two
| OF ;he bandits got on the train when II left
| the tank, and reached the engineer by the
| time a mile was travelled. The holdup oc-
CURED at 1li5 Wednesday In the open
country In bright moonlight, In region
! whore settler lives on every quarter sec
| ton. When the train stopped the passen-
gers saw men lying fiat against the EN-
| hankment, who jumped up and made de-
mand on Messenger Jones. of Kansas city,
| to open up. This he declined to do, when
! several volleys were poured into the car
| from Winchesters. Jones was shot through
| the left wrist and left leg. lie opened the
| door and two robbers entered. They over
hauled the local safe, but got nothing Of
| value. The through safe was closed with
| u tme-lock. which he could not open. The
| bandits spent thirty minutes with chtsels
TO give IT up Then they went through the
| train. robbing all male passengers. but did
| not modest women. The train was a full
| one, consisting of one Pullman, one chair
| car. day COACH a smoker, and two tour
| ist cars in the rear. The robbers went
| sleeper. The porter had put out the lights
| m this. and the robbers declined to risk en-
tering 1t.
y. =
| Brough, Joe Kaufman and MIR. Cooley, of
klneiisher. were In the chair car. When
| they came to Grimes, recognition was nut.
nal and courteous. Both had in the past
| been his prisoners at Guthrie when he was
| marshal The men were Charles Bailey
and TYP WYATT, whose homes are near In;
by trying TO open the safe afford
ed opportunity, for the passengers to
bies. What Wha they they handed landed the 't' robbers
were such amounts as they chose TO give
carry small sack and go in advance
Bailey kept with him to see that every body
ehipred In Wyatt held h, his winchester
strations of resistance.
About $500 was taken from ol the passen,,
OF violence was committed. An old Ger
man asleep was Weakened by rap on the
head with, revolver, which made scalp
forward cars got out and walked around
the sleeper to the rear tourist car where
they took up a collection from the tourists
Conductor. Mack was robbed Of all of the
funds on his person. his watch and chain
ana iswsX The g9hSSers Is agan onan tried beS ,sS
detained the train one hour and quarter.
Not less than seven or eight were In the
gang as FIVE We're counted lying against
the bank when the train stopped. and there
were two others forward at the engine:
They then left. all going toward a small
kiTgisher, reaching here AZ l:l5 this morn
ing on the 4;S5 a. m train going norm na
there was n posse OF itlaFsiltis, NHo llh'i
no trouble in finding where the gang had
their horses hitched. They crossed Turkey
creek bridge. two miles west OF Dover. and
going toward Blaine county. Word re-
ceived to-day at noon from the posse
travelling together and their trail fresh.
The sheriff has Information which he de-
clines 20 make public Yet. Some of the
bandits will be looked for nearer home.
The recognition of Bailey and Wyatt and
the fact that several well known local
crooks were together at kingftsher on
Wednesday morning nearly fixes the iden-
tity Of the whole outfit.