New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-29
X ANSAS DESPERADOES
HOW THEY CONsPrRED ~ CRIME rNv,.
CENT PERSONS CONVICTED FOR
THEIR DEEDS

Kansas CITY Mo. March o Tile sta," ..
prints three-coumn story regarding tho ..-.fr
49, r'markanie gang ~ Kansas criminals ~
FOR year, have lived by means % robbery ana -.
Der. one Of the gang is believed 10 be the Nm.
Gercr Of Joseph New. who was Killed IN Gra.,.'S
County Kan. two wears sso FOR which -
News wife and George II. Dobbs are now, So
life sentences. SO firmly does Warden lana. .
tho Kansas Penitcntiary believe I'm the ipno~..
Of Mrs Now ana Dobbs that he VIII inn.d,.,',
urge Governor Stanley TO pardon them
Frank Mgood. alleged to be ono ~ tho roal ,u.
dercrs. is IN jail At lola. Kan. under cbsrg. :,
forgery.
Alvin Ballard. serving an olght-ye,r ssr,.,..
the Kansas pcnitentiarv for horso-siosiry
confessed that ho. AllgoOd and Bit Turnsr -
tho murders - New. and that Mr. New ana ~,
are absolutely innocent. Turner IA. not heo, -,
10 seems tha, tho men who murdered Ne,. -.
robbed his dead body conspred sfferwsrt - ~
Vic, the widow and Dobhs Tho supposed r,,r.
Alleged. according 10 Ballard oscn wen, ro -. :.
10 try 10 got on tho jury which conric,., -
Ballard goos on 10 say that no Aligood and T..
were members of an organized gang NJ thieves a..
murdoTers. that onerated In Southeastern K,,,..
As result OF his confession eighteen a..
horses. bag of counterfeit silver dollars and .
countcrfeitng outat have been recovered p.
sides. Atgood. r. l.. Maihes Mar Math.s "a
Herbert Simpson are under arrest Fis,v o,...
horses stolen by the gang have been dlscov.,od
Tho officers on the trail ~ Tho other rn.nh.,.
of tho gang Ballard also coufesseS tina, AIoo,a
murdered William coulter. near Eureka IN ,ss,
on 'ers who have been working on tho casa h,,.
Corroboratcd many of Billiards. statements
Ballard confessed to the prison officials seys-,,
days ago and the arrests noted were the outcom.
Ballard said:
we had runs from Texas and the Indian T.,
rtory All through No Mans Land and the SAND
Hills. south OF Hutchinson. Kan. We stole horsss
huggcs aud cattle. There arc caves and under,
ground houses al over m" northern part N ina
Territory and Kansas hat were dug o. found n,
the gang. Ip IN tb.- Sand HIS they have lois d,
plate machnok> where W. turned ont the money
Mathes san1.c. near Hutchinson. l. tho headqlsr.
tors e N gang Mathos has q corral on ~.
ranc> Ig which stolen cattle and horses are drivs1
frori INC Territory and then shipped There are
tcJls hidden all around tho ranchho 80. and few
graves. TOO.
Ballard described these graves smiling as h.
said that no one knew who their occupants were
a few stragZlcr-, be said
Mrs Mqthce Ballard said. kept diary of the
gangs doings and was thus enabled 10 aid In pro-
curing alIbis. This gang. continued Ballard. did
lots ~ things the Dalton boys were credited with
The older ones in the gang have robbed trains To-
twenty years. and guilty Of crimes others are
suffering for Three Of the men. who were In thu
Missouri train robberies, have been robbing trains
ana stages in Texas and the Southwest FOR twenty
years. A band Of eight men. every one Of whom
/ knew did a hod-up Al Albuquerque TWO years
ago Another robbery was ~ train near Ard.
more There was q run. too. 10 Missouri and
Nebraska Aitgood and lin Kennedy made sew
has done turn In some Eastern peIitentiary.'
Kennedy is believed 70 be tho notorious Jack
Kennedy. in the Springfield MOO Jail awaiting
trial for train robbery.