The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-06-29
OF WESTERN BANDITS
United States Marshal Glen
Miller Knows Their Habits.

He Declares That the Train Robbers of the
Rockies Are the Masters Of That Trade
Beside Them the James Gang Was Merely
an Amateur 0utft-How They Work the
Rsnchers-The Biggest Haul on Record
K c. Times, a.
United States Marshal Glen Miller
of Salt Lake arrived in the city yes
terday. He had spent only few
hours here, however, when he receiv,
ed telegram from Utah, recalling
him to that state. His services were
needed ia running down the road
agents who robbed the Union Pacific
express near Wilcox Station, Wyo.,
June 2.
These train robbers are members
of the famous Hole in the Wall"
gang that has terrorized Wyoming
for several years. The federal and
state authorities of that state ar g
now in quick pursuit of these des
peradoes, and they have been forced
to seek refuge in a wild region of
Utah, known as the "Robbers'
Roost" country.
Mr.. Miller returned to Z tan last
night and will take charge of posses
which will give the robbers a hot
chase in that state, Hunting robbers
in that section is desperate game.
and Marshal Miller thinks that some
of his party will probably be killed.
Not only does the topography of
that mountainous region, which is
the widest and toughest in the
Rockies" furnish shelter to turbu-
lent characters of the plains, but
those citizens haYe acquired an ex-
pertness in sharpsheoting that IS at
once the admiration and despair of
outlaw takers.
Mr.. Miller is former Kanssn and
is well known in this city and the
Sunfower state. He graduated from
the Lawrence university in 1874 and
for a number of years was connected
with the Santa Fe Construction
company. He went west several
years ago and is now making repu'
tation for himself as a relentless foe
of the bold, bad men that infest GER
tain parts of the state. Ia speaking
OF the Wyoming holdup Mr. Miller
said:
IDEAL LAND FOR BANDITS.
THE place where the train rob
bers held up the Union Pacific trair
was at a station few miles beycnt
Rock Greek, Wye. The country il
that vicinity is not a particular.
wild region. It is more after tn
nature of the rolling prairies of Kan
sas, but both to the north and soutl
of it there are ranges of high noun
tains, that are badly broken and tori
up from volcanic eruptions and the.
make an ideal place for bandits t.
find refuge in.
Five or six men held up tn
train. Three of them were 500
! located and pursued to the south
the pursuing parties being all tn
way from three TO twenty-four hour
, behind them. The posses were unde
the direction of United States MAJ
, shall Frank Hadsell of the state {
Wyoming, who is one of the bes
, officers in the west. The railroad
r also furnished a large number G
. men. and bloodhounds were secure
!. from Beatrice, Neb. In addition
| that Governor Richards called OF
r a portion of the state militia. Undt
the direction of Marshal Hsdsell q
0 of these forces pursued the robbei
I into the Hole in the Wall" countr
}. of Wyoming. which lies east OF tt
Q Yellowstone park and forms a pa
a of the Big Horn mountains In
> close fight with them the robbsi
: killed the sheriff OF one of the coul
| ties aud shot the horses under
ceupIs of other men. The posse
4 finally surrounded the robbers at
2 Mace called Norwood, but wsre u
i able to keep them there because
4 the broken aad rocky condition