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.

~
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
train on the Chicago & Alton early
Monday says his name is Truehart,
and that he is 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 identified
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 a 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 of 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 a flash, knock
ed the revolver from the robbers
hand, threw himself upon the man
and bore him to the floor. The two
struggled fiercely 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, a 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. Trnebart 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 Z 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 nerviest
imaginable. He only weakened when
Conductor Haywood and number OF
passengers literally jumped upon him
after Ae conductor had pinned him to
the floor. Then the robber, as the pas
sengers kicked and struck at him,
cried: oh, my mother, and gave in.
The robber covered the tra1nmen
and colored porter in the chair car
S1d made them aid him rob the pas
sengsrR Conductor Haywood got the
unpermost 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
roYelvor from him, and then as the
rcbber dashed down the car aisle,
fred shot at him. He snapped the,
revolver a second time, but 1t did not,
fire. Then it was that Conductor.
Haywood literally bore the man to
the floor, and the passengers jumped.
upon him..
Ex-Gov. Hunt Of Idaho Dead.
Goldfeld, New, Nov. 27.Frank w.
Hunt, who was governor of Idaho from
1898 to 1900, died here early Sunday.
otter f1iof Illness 58,5 FROM, .rr;,,,,, y