The Red Cloud chief., 1896-10-30
CHICAGO AND ALTON.
FOUR MASKED BANDITS
HOLE 1T UP
Occurred ~ Glendale James Gang Oprr-
sied There Express Ne -cngrr sccret.d
Money Carried in the safe Not a Single
shot Fired.

KANSAS CITY, oct. :i.-Chicngn &
Alton passenger train No. ~, due in
Kansas City at $50 yesterday evening,
was held M aud robbed bY four mashed
men one-half mile east of the old Blue
cut, between Glendale aud lndcpcnd.
suce, about G:lj yesterday evening.
The robbery consisted uf taking $3.50
from Fireman A. T.. Post, who wa, III
.hc engine, and the ranSacking of the
United States cxprc,, car, from which
& y said two packages Of icwclry of
little value, consigned To Kansas city.
we're taken. The EXPIRE, company and
,lle messenger Andrew shields, deny,
however, that the express coinpany's
loss was anything.
The train was IN charge of Con
,iuctor A. J. Fell, oG R~oodhou,c. H.,
aud Engineer James Wrttou ana Fire.
:nau a. l.. Post. II slater. Mo-. and
= stopped by the robbers ia the time
honorUd manner ot swinging a white
lantern across the track Just before the
curve leading into Blue cut WA,
reached. Engineer Nrttnn brought
his train 10 a ~stuudstill Whrn he saw
'hr signal, and was ordered frcu his
engine 10y Il small mnu. who mounted
into the cab. The actual robbery oc-
,upied but q short time, but. owing ~
The fact that the robbers cut the engine
from the train and ran il II mile and u
half east towards Independence. where
jhcy deserted it. uui where the en-
gincer, June, Wctton. and his fireman
had To walk for il. il made the train an
hour and forty-tivc minutes late in at.
irving in Kansas city,
The huldup was evidently thr work
nf nuyices. the leader of which. 10y his
actions aud conversation with En-
sincer Wctton and Fireman Post,
plainly demonstrated that he was no
IN old hanG in the business Of holding
Up trains.
All the robbers were about thirty
y,irs old, in the opinion of Engineer
WcttOn. and wore dark colorcd masks.
The tall man. like hi, companions.
wore good clothes. but had neglected
/, place them under Disguise.
Although the rubhrr, al carried frc-
arms and fuuri,hrd them dangerously
because Of their seeming ucryOusn"s>,
not one shot was fired during the pro-
gre of the robbery. aud but for the
long wait incident 10 the recovery Of
the engine, The passengers would not
hav" been appraised at all of any
thin. being wrong. The latter were
80 moicStcd. however. by the robbers,
although there ave accounts of many
becoming excited and slowing away
their y~uluabirs after IL was rnmOrcd
tht. :rain was in the hands of bandits.
When il was known that the robbers
had ;a,Ien the engine and Ned, many OF
the passenger, liled out of the ear, and
stood about in a sort of a trance eN-
.1.'Al-r ,1,, tl.,,. could l.N., an.
Ia case they had been ordered To- stand
aud deliver.
The train Wa composed of 4 coU,-
b,natiou baggage aud express car, II
combination mail and smoking ear ana
three day coachc,. II was well filed
With passengers. /, l. thought the
ruhhcrS mis- Judged their train and rob
bed the west bound train, when they
Intended Ia tackle the -. Louis OK
rras,. east bound, which left kanNa
lily at u o'clock, and which was held
n Independence an hour to await the
arrival of the Kansas city train, there
being no orders To meet it otherwise
than ut Independence. The train that
was robbed is q local expires, and the
express run i never heavy or valuable.
There, have been three rohberics At
or Dcur'Glcudale before On October
.. is19, the james boys. accompanied
by linn Cumming, Dick l.iddcl, I'd Mil
l-r, lHll Ryan, Tucker iiaNhain and
several others of the gang. rode into
Glendale and locked up the three men
ia charge of the station. and waited
for the castbound train, which was due
II Gas y. IN. The robbery wa success.
IN and the bandits secured S3j 900,
Two years later the gang again held NJ
train at this pniut, but the third rob
berry, which occurred about seven years
ago. was not done by the james boys
Inspector Flahivc and eight picked
men left Kansas city on II special I'M
mcdiately after the first report III tn,
holdup reached here and proceeded al
,ncc to the Gene. Not II trace of the
robhers could De found anywhere, and
they had disappeared a, completely a.
il the earth had swallowed them up,
lliey are known To be either railroal
men or else men familiar with ma.
'hincry. as their handling OF the engine
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