The age-herald., 1901-11-14
SAY LONGBAUGH IS
 MONTANA ROBBER Express Messenger and Fireman Positively Identify Him NOTED BY GRAND JURY Fireman o'NeIIl Tells Story of the Robbery of the Great Northern
 Flyer Held Up Last
 a- July.
 
NOTED BY GRAND JURY

St. Louis, November 14-The November federal grand jury today returned in dictments against Harry Longbough, alias John Arnold. the mysterious Mon tana train robber suspect. and his com panion, Laura Bullion. They were in- dicted on seventeen separate counts each. Charles H. Smith and Michael F. O'Neill, express messenger and fireman, respectively, of the Great Northern flyer, that was held up last July near Wag- ner. Mont. arrived here this afternoon and identified the suspect under arrest as Harry Longbough, the man who held up the train and took the lead in in timidating the train crew and blowing open the express company's safe from which nearly $1OOO0o in unsigned bills of the National Bank of Helena were stolen. ONeill says that Longbough is the man who climbed over the tender and held up Engineer Jones and himself, and then superintended the blowing up of the safe. His recollection of the episode was so vivid that he could describe the two re- volvers that the robber used
 Identify the Pistols.
 oN-A@NN weapons that were found on the prisoner when he was arrested. Smith and O'Neill came to St. Louis. accompanied by D. E. Elliott, general manager of the Great Northern Express Company in whose care the bank notes were when stolen.
 Longbaugh never finched when the Identification was made. He merely looked at the men and sniffed contemptu- ously. Chief Desmond asked Longbaugh his real name.
 T will talk when the time comes," was the reply, and not another word could the chief get out of the stubborn pr1s- oner.
 'T first saw this man when we were about five hundred yards out Of Malta, said O'Neill the fireman. "I was shovel ing coal and looked up and saw him com ing over the tender. He had a big pistol in his left hand and a smaller one in his right hand. When he saw that I saw him he covered me with his pistol and told me to go on with my work. com piled. Then he came on toward me and Engineer T. R. Jones. He kept one pis- tol on me and the other on Jones.
 "'what does this mean said Jones.
 "It means that this is a hold-up and that it Is going through the fellow said, as he climbed on the seat by the engln- eers side"
 Fireman O'Neill then related in detail the story of the robbery, adding:
 Rode Away on Horses.
 After footing the safe and getting the money they had horses standing there and they rode away in gallop, shooting all the while"
 O'Neill said that for eight miles he rode in the same cab with the suspect. He studied his features carefully. He said that when the robbery occurred Longbaugh had a short and stubby moustache. It did not seem so dark as it does now.
 Chief Desmond says that he now thinks that the suspects real name is Ben Kill patrick. "A tall Texan answering the suspects description, was implicated in several train and bank robberies in the West and he was known as Fitzpatrick
 Messrs. Elliott, O'Neill and Smith will remain in St. Louis day or two. The men may testify in the United States court if 1t is decided to continue the prosecution here.
 Since this last evidence has turned LID 1t may be deemed best to take him to Montana for trial where the offense of train robbing is punishable by death.