The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-25

| The fuse had apparently refused to Work
and they sent me to unoouple the engine
| from the baggage car. Just as l was
| doing II there was a fash and a roar.
I felled to the ground stunned. When
| recovered sufficiently TO gain my feet
| some one said: Cit I started on the
run down the track toward the rest OF
| the train, while the robbers. who had
come up by this time made for the
| wrecked express car"
WHOM THE POLICE SUSPECT.
The police profess to believe that John
Kennedy, who has been connected with
several train robberies in this vicinity,
and who was but recently released on
bail, pending trial for the murder Of Miss
Schumacher, a grocery woman, was con-
nected with last nights slold-up. To the
officers today Operator Hisey gave card
which he asserts was handed to him by
one of the two men who entered his Office
last night. The card read:
I'VE, the Masked Knights Of the Road,
robbed the Missouri Pasific at the Belt
Junction tonight. The supply of Quails
was good. With much love, we remain,
(Signedl JOHN KENNEDY,
BILL RYAN,
BILL ANDERSON,
"SAM BROWN,
Jim REDMOND.
eve are ex-con-spect-to.''
Redmond is wanted for completely with
Kennedy in the Schumacher murder
II will be remembered that last winter
Kennedy was arrested late at night loaded
down with arms. He claimed to be going
quail hunting. but II was believed he
was bent on train robbery.
People in the vicinity OF Dawson early
this morning claim to have seen five men
drive furiously away from the scene of
the robbery in the direction of Kennedy's
nome in the Cracker Neck district
Kennedy's whereabouts is not known.
During the day a hveryman IN the
southern portion Of the city reported to
the police that horse and buggy that
had been hired from his stable by an un-
known man late last night returned alone
this morning. In the buggy was gun
case and gun. The Hveryman was unable
TO give a good description of the man who
had hired the vehicle.
KENNEDY COMES TO TOWN.
John Kennedy, the locomotive engineer
who has been accused of completely in sew
eral of the numerous train robberies in the
vicinity of Kansas City, came to the city
today from his fathers home in the noto-
rious Cracker Neck district, a former
rendezvous Of the James gang.
When questioned by the police and by re-
porters Kennedy positively declared that
he was at his fathers farm at the time
when last nights train robbery was COM
mitted..
Kennedy treats this robbery as he has
previous train robberies, largely as a joke
Speaking of the note left by the robbers,
to which his name was signed, Kennedy
said:
Those fellows were no friends of mine.
If they vert they would have gwen me
the tip so that I could have fixed my
alibi. and I would have been in the office
of the chief of police, with my feet on his
desk when this affair came off,
Chief of Police Hayes insists that Ken
nedy was in town late last night, short
time after the robbery.
Kennedy was also in town yesterday
afternoon. and Prosecuting Attorney Lowe
talked with him at 2 o'clock in the after
noon. When the prosecutor mentioned
train robbing, Kennedy replied:
II don't give damn how much you fel-
lows accuse me of robbing trains There's
nothing disgraceful in that What I do
object ois being connected with the muir
der of that woman. Ny friends ought to
know wouldn't do that"
He referred to the murder Of Miss Emma
Schumacher, who was shot down by rob-
bers in her grocery. for which crime Ken
nedy is to be tried. AS he parted with the
prosecuting attorney KENNEDY said:
eff a train should be held up tonight 1t
would be just my luck to be accused of it."
The train was held up that night and the
police have Kennedy under surveillance.