Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-28
ATTEMPTED H0LDUP.


pals and the plan Matched up to loot The
train" as he termed it.
Bridges is a son of Marvin Bridges, a
Kansas City. He said that he was o years
trivial offense.
1T was Thanksgiving night said
Bridges, "and knowing some of the boys
out to Centropols l walked out to spend
the evening. l went to Fritz AIuder' 5
saloon and there met Ernest RidgYay,
Eugene, his brother. and Jim Repire. We
rushed the can until quite late and played
poker. During the game the other boys
talked of robbing a train and passed the
bottle frequently to me. / drank consid-
cradle, at least every time the bottle
passed. Then we had beer and shortly |
was tipsy and ready for anything. 1t was
then that the boys opened up their plans
and let me in. They told me that it had
been arranged to hold up an electric car,
the last one out of Kansas City. That II
would be loaded and a good 'wad' would
be the. haul. / consented to go into the
JOB. The other boys had pistols and bor-
rowed one. We started out, went through
Sheffield and up the track. Several cars
'tpassed. When the last car hove in sight
a. the power house. Ernest Ridgway who
Is Ilie NOTSI OF lut IOt ana the most QdTlHS
said: Here she comes He lit a lantern
and waved 1t across the track. The train
stopped. Before this the boys told me
to go through the train and hold up the
mGtorneer and keep him from closing the
gates. ] boarded the train, went to Ihe
front end and told the motorneer to con
slider himself under arrest. He partially
held up his hands and l ordered him 10
hold them above his head. l then glanced
through the car to see If the other boys
We're on and it was then the motorneer
grabbed me and struck me-
RriGges showed the bruise on the left
cheek and grinned as he thought of the
Occurrence. II held on to the pistol being
afraid that he would shoot, otherwise ]
would have given up before I did. II
seemed as though l was covered with a
half dozen weapons and then they took me
in the car and placed me on a seat with a
guard.
My courage failed me when I entered
tho car. but il was death to turn back
for Ernest Ridgway is a desperate fellow
He would have killed me. He has beer
in the Natchez Jail for burglary and In
several shooting scrapes at Kansas City.
That is all there is 10 the matter. The
plan to rob. / believe, was made in Nu-
der's saloon and the robbery might have
been planned before, but Thanksgiving
night was the first knew of it.
These same boys laid plan 10 hold up
the Denver express AT Leeds, but failed 10
carry out the plan. Bert and Jesse Pag-
get were into this scrape with the rest OF
the boys engaged in the holdup last night
Repine says he was not in the Missouri Pa
cifc plan but he knew about It.
THE game was to hold up the train two
weeks ago I worked for Leopold at Cen.
tropolis at the time. and told him of the
plan and he told Marshal KeshIear, who
then came TO see me and told him all
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me the reward if he could get the men.
do not know why it miscarried but be-
lieve one of the boys got sick. I don't be-
lieve they were mixed up with the Alton
robbery, but the description OF the mer
tallies with the gang. ! never heard them
say anything about it,
Bridges said that he worked at Leopold:
| saloon for three months and gained notori
city by jumping of the Hannibal bridge
| last August. He has the swagger OF an al