Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-11-27
IN The Tolls.
4 Missouri Train Robber
Landed by Conductor.
Bandit Goes Through Three
Cars Robbing Passengers.
Taken To Lookup and Identified As
perpetrator of Former Robbery.

Kansas City. Mo-, Nov. 26.--One of
the most unique and daring train rob-
berries in the history of the Southwest
vas committed 100 miles west Of Kan
sas City early today. Between Slater
and Armstrong, Mo, distance Of Il
miles. a masked man. single handed,
robbed 20 passengers in three cars OF
the fast eastbound combination Chica-
go r. Acknowledged, Burlington d
Quincy passenger train. After half an
hours work he secured approximately
$4,000 besides several watches and other
pieces Of jewelry. The man finally was
OyerpOwered by Conductor Haywood.
who knocked raised revolver from the
robbers hand and forced him To the
floor. The robber was bound, made to
disgorge, and four hours after the rob
berry was committed, was placed in
Jail. :,
The robber, who said his name was
Truehart, and that he came from CAL
ifornia, was recognized by the engineer
as the same man who on Nov. last, in
exactly the same manner and at the
same place on the road. went through
the rear sleeper of an eastbound Chi
ego Rock Island and Pacific Over
land Limited. Truehart said that 1t was
Jiie brother who held up the Rock Is
. Iard train.
'r'.a train robbed this morning left
N..is.4s City at o'clock Sunday night
J., rc-trhed Slater at midnight and when
i tarteI out of that place five minutes
i4t,, T'uetart boarded the smoking
,.,r Ills eyes wera covered by a mask
=, 4 9 .rat nearest the door he ordered
th.ri to pass over their money and val
t.a.I.. and 40 it quickly. The men com
did N't..n the robber had systematic
,'tit -t3,.. The passengers in the
...una", IF r.Ieir belongings he passed
J., re de-, keeping them covered. He
s,n.il ,cd the chair car. robbed its pas
f--,,c,rs and then went to the sleeper
md commanded the luckless passengers
to surrender their valuables.
Conductor Haywood appeared upon
the scene here and Truehart with the
command: Throw up your hands.
rointed his revolver at the conductors
breast. Instead OF complying. the con-
ductor, quick rs n flash, knocked the
revolver from the robbers hand. threw
himself upon the man and bore MN TO
the floor. The two men struggled fierce
" while the passengers We're instantly
In a panic. Finally the dozen male pas
s&ngers in the car came to the conduc-
tors aid and the robbcr was literally
pinned to the floor.
When Armstrong was reached at Eau
A. NJ. a marshal boarded the train and
T'ruehart was tied hand and foot ami
taken into tire station. He refused to
talk, EXCEPT to beratc the passengers
for coWardice and to declare that Hey
wood was the only ncrvy man among
them. The money and icWclry was tax
en- from him. and after more delay ana
confusion among the excited pasSch-
gers. the train continued.
Truehart appears to DE 3 years Old,
He is 3 feet 5 inches in height and
weighs about 135 pounds. His deScrip-
ton tallies with that OF the Rock Island
robber and the engineer of last night s
robbed train positively identified nm
as the same identical man.
The bandit who robbed passengers
on a Chicago & Alton train last night
between Glasgow and Slatera. Mo. was
taken to the county Jail at Marshall,
Mo-. and offered to make Il full con-
fession if the charges against him was
made burglary. In Missouri the extreme
penalty for train robbery is death