Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-04-05
STORY OF THE ROBBERY.
j. W. Jones, the Wounded Express Messen
ger, Relates His Experience, Which
Was OF a Thrilling Nature.

| AIr j. W. Jones. the wounded express
ns and was seen last o evening mir at his home
| 40 Park avenue, by Il reporter for the Jour,
nal HIS wnd d is mot s6or, tms ars he h5 bne M
| that struck him was. of large size. and
passed through the left wrist between the
| 70 the muscles makes the wound very pain
/ul and he was suffering very acute pains
aaestSses 9st by fisp6S s of 's' use
| lie told a very interesting story 9f the
we had Just pulled, out of Dover, where a
| stop was made to take wafer and had gone
for psrhaPGs ePG hab b mile SaG whfr basT 5hers
y9GTS GutsidG ana VETOED the G tran RAJ s, Was n
The safe Was locked and had nothing IN
1t worth taking, anyway. but ! turned out
| was any show, to make it, The train
me 10 open the door. went to a small
of how many there We're. and see what
the situation was, and If there was any
ting on a box looking out OF the window
with my Winchester across my lap, ready,
There Was a perfect fusilade at first, and
one Of he bullets Went through my wrist
that the gang had possession Of the train
and could make no fight, and so called
ont TO them that was shot and would set
u went over to the other side Of the car
Gpe44ed Tx do3r and jnmpsd Of ~, the ,a car
and dryly remarked, IFS, id funny that
language. When we told you 10 open the
door, that was the thing 10 do. Now, get
under the car and join your pards over
II was compelled to crawl Inder, the
s9ahcer hf I'd on Amsn @ of s the
ductor, James Mack, OF the same place. and
the fireman and. brakeman, seated on a
They were not masked, and We're Joking
with the trainmen as jovially as though
While we We're seated there they came
to me anG d '2Id me would haye hay &c to 9psm
that l could not do so, for the reason that
i can only be opened by the agents at
had no key to the dial, and 1t was come
thing out y Of rhd the question for me & 70 open
talk. and some @ Of hem Vent f'tu TO work ok on Il
with drills, and worked for over an hour
before they concludsd It was too big. q
10 To-, stand and four r hGars drllns at al any POINT
and even had they opened It lhey Mould
money OF, ,yslnables on the night trains
.TheTs %ers seven men in The gang, and
ay me to SoG do lie Il hS & hsy osred SR4 0S6
volence to anyone, only when they poked
Tate wiz If Wbs fgn TSaPY sEnt E5h ha CLERK
and made him crawl out AS he did so he
remarked TO one of them that they dared
not invade the mail car. or Uncle Sam
would get after them. one OF the men gave
Tate a stout punch in the eide with his
get gay or they could do something 10
him that wouldn't be little bit funny,
and Uncle SANS protect wouldn't cure,
either, The hint was enough 10 make Tate
keep very still after that.
couple OF OF the s men % @ took S the porter s and and
went through the train. The passengers
they got possibly $500 in cash and vau-
saak s for them % One man s s5 VadS and af
all OF them saved part OF their cash.
THE gang evidently got on the car at the
tank and captured the engineer by climb
ing over the tender He didn't stop as
my guard, and also called the conductor
out to investigate. There must have been
not less than 100 shots fired into my car,
The wonder is that / was not shot all to
pieces instead of getting one bullet in
',"After getting the cash and deciding that
the safe was too big job. the gang de-
clded 10 let us go ahead, and informed us
that II was time to 60 and. as We started.
We're lost TO View, We ran the train down
to Kinghsher. and there l got my arm
dressed and bandaged. and took the next
train for home, and let another man take
the car on down the trip,
lie Of the robbery. and the sheriff and
United States marshals started out to hunt
three Indian trailers. We heard az Wiehi-
ia that they were on the trail. and sx-