The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-19

| Train-Wrecking to Get It-Tells How
| He Set About 1t and How Easy IL Was
| Scared Away Before He Got Through
| Robbing the victims-A Moral Monster,
| Destitute of a Trace of Human Feeling
| New Orleans, La, Jan. 1S.-A special
to the Times-Democrat from Atlanta,
| Ga, says:
| Sam PaIatka. cross-eyed, a fiend in
( expression, revolving in countenance, has
| confessed to having perpetrated the hor-
| rible Cahab bridge disaster. which &C.
CURED three weeks ago in Alabama
| Stolidly and with immovsble lines OF
criminal harshness on his face, he ad-
mits that, single-handed, he sent thirty
! five persons to a horrible death and
wounded and MANNED a score more.
There was no romantic reason back OF
| the work of this courageous coward, a
man who dared discovery. which, in Ala
bama, meant certain death, to drive a
train to destruction in order to obtain
few dollars.
Palatka was arrested in Eatonton,
Putnam county, in Middle Georgia. His
first captors believed him half-witted. as
he gave himself away. Those in charge
of him today in Atlanta, as he was on
his way TO Alabama, say he is absolutely
reckless and entirely without human
feelings. Today he spoke of the fearful
wreck with no sign of emotion.
II did it, said Palatka. 81 wanted
money. It's nobody's business what L
wanted it for. 1 did it. 1 found it very
easy. I say this for the benefit of those
who want to wreck trains. 1t is just as
easy TO wreck a passenger train as it
is to wreck a freight train. There's no
money in a freight. I did not get any
thing out of the wreck. / moved a rail,
put it across the track, and the whole
business seemed to fall. There were
plenty of dead folks with money-one
man had s50O-but before could get at
it the live ones got up, and then the
crowds came. 1 skipped out them
SHOT SHERIFF AND DEPUTY.
Bozeman, Mont, Jan. 1S.-Sherif
Fransham, Saturday went TO arrest one
F. Morgan for assaulting a ranchman
near here, when Morgan drew a gun
on him and escaped. The sheriff, with
Deputy Jack Allen took the trail, over
taking Morgan and his partner at Car
pertenter's cabin, in the Cherry Creek
basin, forty miles from here. When
within fifty feet of the cabin door, with
with shotguns, dropping Deputy Allen,
who is probably MORALLY wounded, and
wounding Sheriff Fransham. A messen-
ger cent here for helm, organized posse
at Salesville, which took the trail, and
another posse left here Saturday night
armed with Winchesters to head off the
escaping ruffians. Sheriff Fransham has
reached here. He Is not seriously wound
ed, but it is feared Allen will die.
USED HIS GUN WHILE DOWN.
Parkersburg, w. Va, Jan. 1S.-Franx
Cornwall, Is years old, son of the super
intendent of the public schools of Taylor
county, shot Tom Tazlipp, a Baltimore
and Oh'0 railroad brake~,"-. or "oin
street. Graf Lon, about midnight. Youn'l
Cromwell, who was reIuri-.-.a tIonI 4
sick call, found Tazlipp beating another
raiiroader. Interfering, the boy was
knocked down, when drawing a revolver
he placed it at Tazlipps right side and
fired two shots, inf1icting fatal wounds.
Cromwell was arrested.
ROSS AND THE BANDITS.
Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. 1S.-The grand
jury today returned true bills against
George Z. Ross, the Pacific Express
company's absconder, who was arrested
in Texas and brought back here; and
Eugene Ridgeway Ernest Ridgeway, ].
c. Repine and Oscar Bridges, the quar-
tet who help up an electric car Novem-
Der last. The last named are held for
train robbery, which, in this state, may
be punishable by death
REoUISITION WITHDRAWN.
st. Louis, Mo-. Jan. Ex-Governor Ste
phens has withdrawn the requisition pa
pers which had been granted for Leffert
Knox, arrested Friday on the charge Of
grand larceny. Knox was an agent for
the New York Life Insure nee company
at Chicago and it was alleged that he
had collected premiums which he fail
ed to account for.