The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-12-01
BANDITS CONFESSION
YOUTH WHO ROBBED c. G. A.
TRAIN TELLS HOW HE DID 1T.
A VOLUNTARY STATEMENT
Ran, and Passengers and Train
Crew Captured Him.

Marshall, Mo, Nov. 27.-The bandit
who held up the Chicago & Alton train
Monday morning between Glasgow and
Slater. Mo-, has been brought to the
county Jail. He Immediately opened
negotiations with the prosecuting at
torney, Offering to make a full cOnfeS-
sion ii the charge against him was
burglary. In Missouri the extreme
penalty for train robbery is death. the
minimum ten years Imprisonment.
The prosecutor refused any conces-
sion., and the bandit then volunteered
a statement as follows:
His Name.
My name is Claud Randall; my age
20 years and 8 months. l came from
st. Louis to Mexico, Mo, On the Wa
bash, and from Mexico 10 Slater on
the Chicago & Alton Sunday. My
brother was the one who robbed the
Golden State Limited and he told me
that the Golden State Limited did not
stop between Slater and Mexico, and
for that aso | came to Slater to get
on the train. | got in the smoking
car, and went through it and robbed
two or three other cars. / did not
take any money from w~Orkingmen or
ladies, as l only wanted to take money
from those that had made it easy and
could afford it. One man on the train,
when he heard me tell another passen-
ger that | did not want any of his
money because he was a laborer, said
ne vas a labOrer also. l did not be-
lieve him, and l asked him to show
me his hands. Upon looking at them
I found them as SOFT as a woman's. /
then made him dig up, taking from
him his $45 watch, which | told him
I would send to the ST. Louis Repub-
lie, where he could get it, as l only
wanted it to keep time by until / got
10 my destination.
The Fight and Capture.
when the train reached Glasgow
! got off on the platform, and as the
train started to move l mounted it
again, and commenced to go through
the passengers in a sleeping car,
where l allowed the conductor to get
too close to me, and he grabbed my
pistol and my throat. He then
wrenched the pistol from me, and |
broke and ran to the back of the
train. Many of the passengers and
all of the train crew rushed upon me,
while the train was in motion, struck
me upon the head with the pistol and
tried to throw me overheard, while the
train was running 80 miles an hour.
The train soon stopped, and l was cap
tured, and put off at Armstrong and
brought from there to Glasgow and
from there to this place.
"T was born near Grant City, Mo-,
and was out in California, and came
back to Missouri about six months
ago.. 1 got about $500 and about
eight or ten watches from the passen-
gers on the train. l did not want this
jewelry. but they forced NE to take it."
Believe He Robbed the Golden State.
The prisoner Is now awaiting a pre-
llminary hearing, which will be held
within the next few days. 1t is prob
able that at that time he will be bound
over to await the action of the grand
jury of the next criminal court, which
meets in March at this place. The
prisoner shows evidence Of his cap
ture, and he has a deep cash in his
forehead where he was struck over
the head with a pistol when they were
trying to capture him. The officers
are confident from the evidence they
have that it was this man who robbed
the Golden State Limited and not his
brother, and that he is only naming
light sentence.