Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-11-29
CAPTURES
DARING BOY BANDIT
MISSOURI OUTLAW FOiLED IN
ATTEMPT TO ROB PAS.
SENGERS ON ALTON.
MAKES BIG HAUL BUT
LOOT is RECOVERED
Identified as Man Who Held Up Rock
Island in Same Vicinity Recently
-Berates Travellers for Their
CoWardice.

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov 27.-Stat-
ing that a previous train robbery on
the Rock Island was committed by his
brother, although he himself is identi-
fed as the one who committed the
robbery, the boy bandit who held up
a train on the Chicago & Alton early
Monday says his name is Truehart,
and that he is a Californian.
Truehart secured $4,000 in money,
besides several watches, all of which
were recovered and returned to the
passengers.
The engineer of the train id entitled
the robber as the same man who held
up the Rock Island train near Glas-
gov, on November Z.
The hold-up was one of the most
daring in the history of the. south
west. Between Slater and Arm
strong, Mo-, distance of FL miles,
the bandit, single-handed, robbed 20
passengers in three cars of the fast
east-bound combination Chicago &
Alton Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
passenger train.
OverpoWered by Conductor.
The man finally was overpowered
by E. B. Haywood, the train conduc-
tor, who knocked a raised revolver
from the robbers hand and forced him
to the car floor. The robber was
bound, forced to surrender his plum
der, and four hours later was placed
in JAIL
AS the train started from Slater
Truehart boarded the smoking car.
Leveling revolver at two passen-
gers, he ordered them to pass over
their money and valuables.
When the robber had systematically
robbed the passengers in the smoker
he stood at the door, keeping the pas
sengers covered with his revolver I'M
til the train reached Glasgow. At
Glasgow he swung off and boarded
the chair car as it rushed by mo-
ment later. After robbing the pas
sengers in this car he began to rob
those in one of the sleepers.
When Conductor Haywood appeared
the robber commanded him to throw
up his hands. Instead of complying,
the conductor, quick as flash, knoct-
ed the revolver from the robbers
hand, threw himself upon the man
and bore him to the floor The two
struggled tiercely while the passen-
sengers were instantly in panic. A
dozen passengers came to the conduc-
tors aid and the robber was bound.
When the train arrived at Arm
strong. town marshal took Truehart
into custody He refused to talk, ex-
cept to berate the passengers for
coWardice and to declare that Hey
wood was the only nervy man on the
train. Truebart was taken to Glas-
gov and placed in Jail. He told the
police that it was his brother who
robbed the Rock Island train out of
Slater on November and escaped.
Robbery Most Daring.
A passenger on the robbed east
bound Alton-BurIington train. who re-
turned to Kansas City Monday from
Glasgow, Mo-, said:
The robber was one of the neryiest
imaginable He only weakened when
Conductor Haywood and a number of
passengers literally jumped upon him
after he conductor had pinned him to
the floor. Then the robber, as the pas
sensers kicked and struck at him,
cried: Oh, my mother and gave in.
"The robber covered the trainmen
and colored porter in the chair car
SAd made them aid him rob the pas
sengsrs Conductor Haywood got the
uhpermost when the robber, while
operating in the sleeper, stopped mo-
mentaIly to put away securely some
of the booty he had just secured.
Haywood, although so years old,
grappled with the man, wrested his
reyelver from him, and then as the
robber dashed down the car aisle.
fred shot at him. He snapped the.
revolver a second time, but it did not
fire. Then it was that Conductor
Haywood literally bore the man to
the floor, and the passengers jumped
upon him.