Hutchinson gazette., 1899-01-19
TRAIN ROBBER IDENTIFIED.
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Old Outlaw Bill Ryan. k
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the leader OF the Leeds bandits at the
time Of the robbery of the Missouri
Pacific express car and Bill Ryan, who
has planned more train robberies than
he has fingers and toes, have been
Identified as the same individual
Wing KcshlcAr and George lIr0Ant,
Kansas City detectives, identified Jen.
nings as Ryan, and W. w, Lowe, the
confesslng participant In the Leeds
robbery, is positive that he Is Evans
Engineer Slocumb and Fireman Wes-
ton OF the Missouri Pacific train,
lobbed Mt Leeds, later identified the
prisoner as the Lender OF the gang and
further convincing evidence was &C.
cured by stripping Ryan, In his CON
fession to the detectives In Kansas
City, Lowe had stated that Jack Ken
nedy had sent Evans" to his house
prior to the robbery and was told that
II he had any doubt as 10 his visitor
being the right party TO examine his
left arm and breast for bullet wounds,
When Ryan was stripped the telltale
bullet wounds were there, and again
the now impotent outlaw gritted his
few remaining teeth in his rage and
,ursed Lowe,
The preliminary hearing OF Ryan
and Joseph Shepard, alias Dutch
Weber, resulted In their being bound
over for the action Of the grand jury
without bail They were taken at
once to the Springfield jail. The court
room was packed TO suffocation, and
thousands OF people were unable to
obtain admlttance,
The preliminary hearing OF John
Kennedy, on n charge OF holding up
the Memphis train at Macomb, on the
night Of January Q, was continued Tor
ten days, Kennedy going to the Spring.
field Jail without bond. O Il Blair OF
Kansas City, attorney for Kennedy,
together with Colonels Musicls and
Neider, associate counsel, could not
get ready in time, and asked the con-
tinuance. They have many witnesses
TO bring from Kansas City and Texas,
and they also have depositIons to take.
Jake Fagley was arraigned at the
same time, but waived the preliminary
examination and was held for the ac-
tion OF the grand jury, which convenes
in March,
MANSFIELD, Mo-, Jan. 19.--John
Kennedy was positively identified here
yesterday as the leader Of the gang that
held up the Kansas City, Fort Scott &
Memphis train near Macomb Mo-,
January Q, Three men-Elmer Byrum
Louis Nye and Oscar Ray-have con-
fessed that they were in the holdup,
and all three have identified Kennedy
as their leader.
Kennedy has been twice tried for
robbing trains at Blue Cut, near Kan
sas City, and suspected OF every train
robbery that has occurred in that vi
cinity during the last three yeals, but
has never been convicted. He Is also
under indictment for numbering a wo.
man. He is out on SlO,O 900 bail on the
murder charge.
On the witness stand at the prelim-
mary hearing, Byrum, who Is a farmer
residing near Mansfield, told the en-
tire story of the robbery. He rode to
the scene Of the robbery, he said, with
Jennings" who is now thought to be
Bill Ryan, the noted outlaw, and
Kennedy, who was going under the
name Of Wright Kennedy, accord
ing to his story, handled the engine,
while Ryan held a revolver to the en-
gineers head. It was Kennedy also
who placed the dynamite on the safe,
he said. The money was taken to q
vacant house near by and divided, all
the mutilated money going to the
share of Byrum and Nye and all the
rest of it going to Kennedy and Ryan,
or Jennings" Byrum's story was
absolutely substantlated by the find
ing OF the mutilated money just where
he said It had been hidden. When
Jennings" was searched, $3.50, partly
burned and mutilated, was found
sewed into tho lining Of his clothes
1t was the mutilated money that led
to the detection Of the robbers Oscar
Ray, who is also farmer, gave q Nor
wood storekeeper S5 bill scorched
about the edges AS It was only few
days since the robbery, the merchants
suspicious were aroused. He showed
the burnt bill to II. p. Ball, the county
prosecutor. Ball set about to discover
where the money came from. Devel-
opments followed rapidly.
Mutilated money was also put into
circulation by Mrs Byrum, wife OF
Elmer Byrum and daughter Of Louis
Nye. Whom Constable Woodward, OF
Norwood, went to Louis Nye's house
with warrants for the arrest Of Nye,
Byrum and Ray, he found Jennings
and Shepard there
Yesterday Il. o. Davis, clerk in q
hardware store, identified Kennedy as
the party he sold dynamite to day OF
so before the Macomb robbery. he
was introduced by Byrum as Mr..
Wright, and Byrum in his confession
made the same statement.
Ten days prior to the robbery @
stranger calling himself Davis" Wis.
tied Ava, six miles from here, an6
represented himself to be q prospective
real estate buyer. Citizens Of Avs
have identified Kennedy as Davis"
Says Kansas Troops in Cuba VIII Revolt