Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-08
ESCAPED INTO IOWA
Evidence Found That the Bur.
lington Train Robbers Cross
ed River in Skiff.
The Boat Found Near Sabula-
Several Suspects are Sought
by Detectives.
Officers Think Escaped Tennes.
see Convicts May Have Held
Up the Train.

I Special to Times Republican.
| Clinton. Aug. S.-rhe men who robbed
| the c., b. & q. train near Savanna. Ill.
! at midnight Tuesday are supposed Il
have escaped across the Mississippi
river into Iowa. and may now be in this
state. AS evidence of this a skiff III
which the bandits are supposed to have
crossed the river has been found on the
Iowa shore near Sabula. The evidence
of a campfire where the robbers camped
has also been found. There have been
other developments which may lead To
arrests, as the detectives working in
this vicinity and their superiors in Chi
cago profess to believe they know who
the leaders of the band We're. Gus Hyatt
who escaped with fifteen other convcts
from the Nashville, Tenn, penitentary
last Monday night, is now sought as
the leader of the train robbers who
held up the Burlington express twenty
tours after the escape.
With powder which had been fur
nished by friends he laid a train to a
dynamite mine. which he had placed
beside the Wall of the nenitentiary. He
fired this just as the convicts We're or
dered to go into their cells for the night.
Before the guards came back to lock
the men up the explosion happened and
when the watchnien came running in
m. Il "a *
Struggled from the outside. stood them
off until his comrades crept thru the
breach. Then he followed.
Detectives working on the case. who
include those from the headquarters in
Chicago the Pinkerton agency and q
half dozen other companies, decided
yesterday that Hyatt had gone from
Nashville to ST. Louis and then had
come up along the Mississippi to the
scene of the hold-up. They had dis
covered that he had $50 when he broks
from prison and they figured that as he
took several of his companions with him
he would need money at once. To him.
they said. the easiest way of getting i:
would be to hold UP a train. This. they
believe, he did They tninll that he ma!
-
and that the remainder of his party was
made up of men they picked up on their
way.
Hyatt is a desperate man and he
would be as willing te, attempt job
like this as he would be to fill his pipe.
said one of the Pinker on men yester-
day. He found himself broke and s;ig
gested that n train be held up. Doubt
less his companions ere novces. but
| have found that usua ly the men who
do jobs of this kind get those know
nothing about train robbery to help
them. / am confident the robbers will
be caught within a day or two"
I'VE caught Hyatt in Kansas City
about five years ago. Our manager
there had just been appointed chief of
police when Hyatt was taken in charge
He claimed to be a cowboy, who had
been robbed in bathhouse. We
doubted his story, and by sending out
circulars soon found he was the man
charged with having robbed train at
Colera, Ala. Before the Alabama peo-
pie got after him, tho the Tennessee
got him and took him back
to Nashville. There he was convicted
of killing a man and was given a sem
tence of fifteen years in the peniten-
tiary, escaping last Monday
Chicago detectives, as we'll as the
admit that they are after
others besides Hyatt. They are anx-
Ious to find George. better known as
Butch" Cassidy. who has been con-
nected with several train robberes. He
IS little known in this part of the coun-
try, his operations having been con-
lined to Wyoming. Idaho. Colorado and
Utah. in each of which states he has
served terms in the penitentiary. altho
lie is only IS years old. 1t is believed
hat he came east after being pardoned
rom the Laramie prison last January
The police also are looking for Harry
.ongbaugh, alias kid" alias Harry
alias Frank Jones. alias Frank
Boyd. alias 'Sundance Kid" In 1892 |
ne. with Bill Madden. and Henry
Sass. held up the Great Northern train
n northwest tern Montana. Longbaugh |
escaped, but both the others are now
serving terms in the Montana peniten-
larry. Three years ago Longbaugh |
'obbed bank in Deadwood S d., and |
vas arrested, but he and one of his four
companions broke Jail
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