Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-29
A TRAIN ROBBER.
Is Caught Up VIII in Ills
Game This Time.
Arrested and Jailed-Is He
the Same Fellow Who
Rode Asbury's Horse Out
of Mexico Three Weeks
Ago?


sengers on the east-bound Chicago
& Alton passenger train No. "a
near Glasgow, Mo, aftermidnighl
Monday morning.
The robbed train was known as
the Early Bird" and is due in
Mexico at 2;15 a. m. 1t left
Kansas City at 9 O'Clock Sunday
night. At Slater the robber,
wearing mask over his eyes,
boarded the rear car as the train
was pulling ont. After the train
had gained speed the man, revol.
yer in hand, entered the car and
began systematic robbery of the
passengers. Fifteen of them were
forced to give up their money and
other valuables.
AS the train passed thru elias
gov, at which point it does not
stop, the man was seen at work
by the station agent, who wired
the chief dispatcher Of the fact.
Armstrong, the next station east of
Glasgow, was notified, and officers
were at the station to meet the
train when it pulled in. No stop
is made ordinarily at Armstrong,
and the robber, evidently satisfied
in the belief that he was secure for
this reason, suspected no harm
when that point was reached.
When the train stopped at Arm
strong on orders and the officers
boarded it they caught the robber.
He was arrested without serious
difficulty aud was taken back to
Glasgow and placed in Jail. The
robber is 5 feet 5 inches in height,
weighs 125 pounds aud wore a
corduroy cap.
The robbed train was in charge
of Conductor Heywo cd, and is one
of the fastest on the Chicago &
Alton. II is combination Chi
cago a nj Alton n d
Burlington, and Burlington and
Quincy. From Kansas City to
Mexico it is run over the Alton
tracks. At Mexico the train is
cut in two, the Alton portion con
timing on to Chicago, and the
Burlington portion going to st.
Louis.
! Monday mornings robbery is
an almost exact duplication, it is
said, of that committed on the
same line three weeks ago, when
a lone robber, heavily masked,
boarded the rear sleeper Of the
east bound Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific overland train which
runs on Alton tracks, and at the
point of two revolyers forced the
Pullman conductor, a negro por-
ter, and n brakeman to pass
ahead of him and awaken the pas
sengers while he robbed them.
On that occasion the robber
passed the women by and sue.
ceeded in getting but $G8, which
he took from three male passen,
gers. This robber escaped, and
no definite clew was ever heard of
him except perhaps he was the
same chap who came on to Mexico
and rode Asbury's livery horse out
of town up to Sturgeon when he
left it and departed for parts I'M
, known.
The officers believe that the
: man who committed this last rob
berry is the same who went thru
the Rock Island train.
( 1t was after the passengers had
I all contributed money and valu-
! ables to the robbers collection thai
2 the opportunity came for Conduc.
/. tor Haywood After securing al
z the booty available, both the con
+ ductor and the porter were ordered
I into the toilet Foom at the end O.
4 the oar, While they were enter
Z ing the robber began putting th'
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