Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-30
TRAIN THUGS BAFFLED
Missouri Pacific plays 4 Small
Game" in Which Trumps
Were Bullets.
THEY FLEW WIDE OF THE MARX,

Or Three Good Thugs Might BE Record
ed-only One Shot Finds sIan-on
of the ScoundreIs an EmpIoye OF tn
Company-Segro Murderer Shot by
Missouri Unconstitutional Soldiers Maxi
Trouble in Georgia
Kansas City. No. Nov. sd specia
! 10 The Journal from SeGaha. No. says
Missouri Pacific passenger train No "a
| which left ST. Joe At 2:S0 .. m. yesterday
! via Kansas City. running from the lat
I ter city over the Lexington branch. va.
I held up four and half miles west oi
/ Sedaiia at 9.55 o'clock last night by
! three masked men. one of whom, j.
/ West. an engineer in the company
| employ. was captured. while a second is
! believed to have been wounded. and the
| third escaped. Originally the hold-uT
was to have occurred last Friday night
but one of the men Implicated weak
ened and the attempt was postponed.
The thugs got no money. Monday night
superintendent L. d Hopkins was ap-
prised that the hold UP was arranged
for last night and he prepared for II
by putting six armed guards on the
train.
Laid an Ambuscade for the Thugs.
5-2j p. N. six secret service men in the
compary's employ were aboard. When
the point where the attempt was to be
made was approached two Of the men
Tom FurlonE. of st. Louis. and w w.
Kay. OF the Missouri PacihC-took their
position in the cab of the engine. -Four
more men with Detective Frank Bar
nett, of the Missouri Pacific at Osawa-
tonne, Kan. in charge. were secreted in
the baggage car. The train was in
charge of Conductor Hiram Lewis. II
y. Daniels was the engineer and John
7. GrimshaW the express messenger.
There were Il basgage'car. one express
car and three coaches in the train.
Much Shooting. but Little Wool.
one half mile west of Georgetown. at
Muddy Creek, Engineer Dan!es was
sigLalled to stop and did so. At once
the three robbers opened fire. which was
returned by The company's posse of six
mea Fully twenty shots were ex-
changed. when the robbers realized that
they were trapped and began to re-
treat. The officers gave pursuit. and
Engineer Jim West, a freight man, was
captured. The officers fred a number of
shots. and II is reported that the sec
ond Tobber was WOUNDED but this is not
as yet Corroborated. The train then
came on to Sedalia and West was COM
mitted to jail. As quickly as possible
posse was organized and proceeded
to the scene of the hoId-up in the hope
Of capturing the other two robbers.
News OF the Wounded Robber.
The company officials are said to be in :
possession of the names of the two re- |
naming robbers. and their capture is !
considered ceItain. At 1880 o'clock this (;
morning portion OF the posse in pur- !
suit of the two remaining bandits re- !
turned. They had learned where one ,
of the robbers. with a badly shattered |
arm, had called at a farm house for |
bandages, claiming that he had been !
accidentally wounded while engaged in !
coon hurting. Jim West is a man Of |
family and has been in the employ of |
the company for several years He has
always stood well in the community
and great surprise is expressed that he
should be implicated in such a crime.