The San Francisco call., 1901-11-14
TRAIN ROBBER
IS IDENTIFIED
ST. Louis Suspect Is the
Man Wanted in
Montana.
Harry Longbaugh and Laura
Bullion Indicted on Sew
enteen Counts.

ST LOUIS, Nov. 13-The November
Federal Grand Jury to-day returned in
dictments against Harry Longbaugh,
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 +.
O'Neill, express messenger and fireman
respectively of the Great Northern flyer
that was held up last July near Wagner.
Mont, arrived here this afternoon and
identified the suspect under arrest as
Harry Longbaugh, the man who held up
the train and took the lead in intimidat-
ing the train crew and blowing open
the express companys safe, from which
nearly 100000 in unsigned bills of the
National Bank of Helena We're stolen.
O'Neill says that Longbaugh is the man
who climbed over the tender and held
up Engineer Josephs and then superin-
tended the blowing up of the safe. His
recollection of the episode was so vivid
that he could describe the two revolvers
that the robbers used. The police say
they are the same weapons that were
found on the prisoner when he was ar
rested.
Smith and O'Neill came to st. Louis ac-
companied by c. F. Elliott of the ex-
press company from whose safe the bank
notes were stolen.
Robber Merely Shifts.
Longbaugh never iinched when the
Identification was made. He merely
looked at the men and shifted contemptu-
ously. Chief Desmond asked Longbaugh
his real name.
Il win talk when the time comes
was the reply, ard not another word could
the chief get out Of the stubborn pris-
oner.
II first saw this man when we were
about 500 yards out of Malta" sad
looked up and saw him coming over the
tender. He had big pistol in his left
hand and smaller one in his right hand
covered me with his pistol and told me to
go on with my work. / complied. Then
he came on toward me and the engineer,
T. r. Jones. He kept one pistol on me
and the other on Jones.
What does this mean? asked Jones.
1t means that 1T is a hold-up and
that it is going through the fellow said.
as he climbed n the seat by the engi-
neers side"
Story of the Robbery.
Fireman O'Neill then related in detail
the story of the robbery, adding:
AFTER looting the safe and getting the
money, they had horses standing there
and they rode away at gallop, shooting
all the while"
O'Nein said that for eight miles he
rode in the same cab with the suspect.
He studied his features carefully. He
said when the robbery occurred Long
baugh had a short and stubby mustache.
1t did not seem so dark then as 1t does
now.
Chief Desmond says that he now thinks
that the suspects real name is Ben Kill
patrick.
"a tall Texan" answering the suspect s
description, was implicated in several
train and bank 1obberies in the West, AMI
he was known as Fitzpatrick.
Elliott, O'Neill and Smith will remain in
ST Louis a 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 up
it may be deemed best to take him to
Montana for trial, where the offense of
train robbing IS punishable by death.