The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-10-23

Detective Joseph Harvey James, who re
| ceived the Information that led to til
raid. He and Detective Dwyer arrested
Harry Vaughn, who remained in the Gus
tody of the former.
as he lay on a cot in the woman's ware
at the City Hospital yesterday morning.
CONDUCTOR COMBS TALKS
WITH WOUNDED ROBBER.
Conductor Combs acted as the spokes'
man:
so 1 have met you at last, have II
he asked of the wounded robber.
Morris replied with an oath.
THE last time I saw you, you had a
pistol more than a foot long" said Combs.
A smile came to Morris's face. 1t was
bitter and sarcastic when he said. Yes,
and w got 1t yet"
Yes said Morris. when Combs accused
him of being the leader of the gang of
robbers. Il guess / might as well tell the
whole thing. for I'm going to die.
IT'S a good thing that none of you guys
resisted. or there would ave been some
dead ones around. They've got me, and I
may as well admit all of my crimes. 1t is
true hat there were four in the bunch
myself and two confeds and another man
named Jack Collins. a tramp. who we
picked up and rade go with us. 1 wouldn't
squeal on him. only he didn't keep quiet
and gave US away.
Several of the train crew were taken to
the morgue, but they failed to identify
Rosenaur.
NATION STATION AGENT
RECOGNIZES MORRIS.
Wynee Ffndley. the Mattoon station
agent, arrived at $50 o'clock last evening
and also identified Morris as the robber
who held him up last week.
Joseph ]. Rosenaur, a brother, and John
Rosenaur. a cousin of the dead robber.
called at the morgue last night. They
did not themselves as rel
atives. but Officer Shea saw Joseph Rose
naur in the crowd and on account of the
striking resemblance to the lead man
took the brother into custody.
Joseph and John Rosenaur stated that
they had not seen Al for four years. since
he was sent to the P~enitentiary for a stab
bling ARRAY at the South St. Louis Sport
ing Club, at the foot of Cherokee street.
They said that the dead man was the
black sheep" of the family and was
maynard from youth.
The Rosenaur home is at No. 2O07 Cush-
ing avenue. The dead mans brother said
he did not know whether the family could
stand the expense OF the funeral.
DETECTIVES DISCLOSE
CHARACTER OF BANDITS.
Working on the case with hardly a mo-
ment's rest since the tragedy, the detect
ives are disclosing the real characters of
the men. and especially Morris. who
boasts that he did all the shooting.
Morris confessed to having been impli-
Gated in the famous Pullman car robbery
on the Diamond Special of the Illinois
Central August 1; the Rock Island rob-
berry neal Le;Z. Ia. about Jun IS: hold
irg up the Nation station agent
on the Illinois Central last week;
a Missouri Pacific freight train near
Nevada. Mo. in 1896; a grocery
in Evansville. lid, the same year. and it
is being proven that it was he and Rose
who held up the drug sto-e of Gustav
Sewing. on South Jefferson avenue, a
Teek ago last night
Suspecting only in a very general way
tne CHARACTER Oh me tnFee men. Inc iOuE
detectives walked into the fatal trap-a
veritable rain of leaden death at the hands
of a man who confesses to various train
robberies. Murder was the only crime. al
rost. hat he did not admit in his career
Of robbery, but the climax of his lawless
reign was related b~oastfully.
Apparently unfeeling. unrelcnting and
unchanged. Morris lies in the City Hos
pital with eight wounds IN his body. be-
tween life and death. A partner. Al Rose
nauer. alias Rose. lies in the morsue. dead.
Harry Vaughn. alias RED Harry" alias
Harry o'Dowd.' alias Graham" alias
Adams is in the custody of the police
with a badly battered head. The band
has been broken, but it required the loss
of life of three of the best detectives on
the st. Louis police force.
JAMES AND BOYLE HAD
so CHANCE TO PARTICIPATE.
Joseph Ii. James. the detective who re-
ce;yed fhe first cley IN the preSepca of