Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-27
In Missouri Fate Of
Train Robbers
Is Severe
Prisoner Says Brother
Robbed Golden State
Limited
Mysterious Fellow, Formerly of Cali
fornia, May Be Recently Dis.
charged Convict ''om Leav-
enworth Prison
Bv Aasociated Pt ess.

By Associated Press.
MARSHALL, Mo. Nov. 2G.-The ban
dit who held up the Chicago & Alton
train last night between Glasgow and
Slater, Mo-, was brought to the county
Jail this afternoon and at once opened
negotiations with the prosecuting at
torney, offering to make a full con-
tession if the charge against him was
made burglary.
The extreme penalty for train robbery
is death, the minimum ten years inn
prisonment.
The prosec' tor refused any conces-
sion and the bandit then volunteered
a statement as follows:
MY name is Claude Randall. my age
20 years and 8 months came from
ST. Louis to Mexico, Mo-, on the Wa
bash, and from Mexico to Slater on the
Chicago e. Alton railroad yesterday
MY brother was the man 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 reason came
to Slater to get on the train.
Il got in the smoking car and went
tbiOu6i IL anu lODDtu lWO VI lllTGC
other cars. l did not take any money
from working men or ladies, as 1 only
wanted to take money from those that
had made it easy and could afford it.
Lies to Robber
"One man on the train, when he
heard me tell another passenger that
did not want any of his money because
he was laborer, said he was a laborer
also. I did not Believe him and asked
hlm to show me his hands. Upon look
infz.at them l found them as soft as a
Womans. S. l made him dig up, taking
from him his $45 watch, which l told
MN | would send to the st. Louis Re-
public where he could it, as I
only wanted it to keep time by until
l got to my destination.
when the train reached Glasgow L
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 sleeper, where
allowed the conductor to get too close
to me. He grasped my revolver and
my throat He then wrenched the pis-
tol from me, and 1 broke and ran to
the back of the train.
Rush on Bandit
MANY of the passengers and all of
the train crew rushed upon me while
upon the head With the pistol and tried
to throw me overheard while the train
was running thirty miles an hour.
THE train soon stopped and / was
captured and put off at Armstrong and
brought from there the next morning to
Glasgow, and from there to this place
today.
II was born near Grant City. No.
and was out in California and came
hn oh m about ci he
II got about $500 and bout eight or
ten watches from the passengers on the
train. | did not want this jewelry, but
they forced me to take it"
The prisoner is now awaiting pre-
l.minary 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
experience. and he has q deep cash in
his forehead, where he was struck over
the head with a pistol when they We're
trying to capture him.
The officers are confident from the
evidence they have that it was the
sa me man who robbed the Golden State
Limited ano not his brother. and that
he is only naming the brother in the
hope of receivin~ a light sentence.
May Be Chicago Convict
1t is believed by the police of this
city that Claude Randall, the confess
ed Chicago and Alton train robber, in
Jail at MarshaiI, Mo-, is Clyde Rumsey
of Chicago, who was released from the
Federal prison at Fort Leavenworth,
l<ans., ON November 4. The officers
here believe that Rumsey also held up
the Rock Island train near Glasgow.
on November s. Rumsey served a term
in the Federal prison for robbing box
cars while a United States soldier.
He came direct to this city from
Leavenworth, bought two pistols,
worked two days as janitor and before
he quit on November told an asso-
ciate that he intended TO rob train.