Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-27
LONE TRAIN ROBBER TAKEN
Alton Conductor 0yerpOWsrs Bandit Who
Was Robbing PASSENGERS.
WORKING IN THIRD CAR WHEN CAPTURED
BoOty Is All Recovered and the PrIs-
Oner u Taken 20 JaiI at Mar
shall, Missouri, Tor
Trial.

who held up the Chicago e. Alton train
last night between Glasgow and slater, Mo-
was brought 60 the county isil this after
noon and Immediately opened negotiations
with tho prosecuting attorney. Offering to
make full confession If the charge against
him was burglary. In Missouri the cN-
tremc penalty for train robbery is DEATH
the minimum ten years imprisonment The
prosecutor refused any concession and tho
bandit then volunteered statement as
follows:
MY name is Claud Randall: my aged. 20
wears and months I came from St Louis
% MeNico, Mo, on the Wabash and from
railroad yesterday. Siy brother was tbe
one who robbed tho Golden State TIniitcd
and he told me that the Golden State Linz
TED did not stop between Slater and Mexico,
ana for that reason ! came to Slater to
SCI on the train. ! got in the smoking car
and went through II and robbed two or
three other cars. ] did not take any money
from Workingmen or women, as I only
wanted to take money from those that
had made IL easy and could afford It. one
man on the train. when he heard me tell
another passenger that did not want any
OF MS money because he was lsborer,
sald he was q laborer also. I did not be-
lieve him and asked him to show me his
hands. Upon looking at them found them
~ SOFT a. z woman 8 then made him
which I told him I would send 60 the St
Louis Republic, where he could get It, as
III
got to my destination. When the train
reached Glasgow ] got off on the platform,
and as the train started to move / mounted
II again and commenced to go through the
passengers in "a sleeping car, where / al
lowed the conductor to get too close to me
and he grabbed my pistol and my throat
He then wrenchcd the pistol from me, and
broke and ran to The hack of the train
Many of the passengers and all of the
train crew rushed upon me while the train
was In notion struck me upon the head
with the pistol and tried TO throw me over
board while the train was running thirty
miles an hour. The train soon stopped,
and I was captured and put on at Arm
. strong and brought from there the next
morning to Glasgow and from there to
this place. I was born near Grant city.
Mo-. and was out in California and came
back to Missouri about six months ago
got about Sl.5G0 and about eight or ten
watches from the passengers on the train.
/ I did not want this jewelry, but they
: forced me to take II.
! The prisoner Is now awaiting a prelinl-
: mary hearing. which will be held within
| the next few days II is probable that at
/ that time he will be bound over to await
i the action OF the grand juhy Of the next
criminal court. which meets in March at
l. this place. The prisoner shows evidence of
{ his capture and has n deep cash In his
( forehead where he was struck over the
( head with a pistol when they were trying
4 TO capture him. The officers are confident
I from the evidence they have that II was
J this man who robbed the Golden State
! Limited. and not his brother. and that he
is only, naming the brother in hope of
receiving a light sentence.
ProBabIe Identity OF Ba ndit.
KANSAS CITY. Nov. 2G.-lt IS believed
by the police Of this city that Claude Ran
dan. the confessed Chicago & Alton train
robber IN Jail at Marshall. Mo-, is clyde
Rumsey Of Chicago. who. was released from
the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan, on November 1. The officers here
boliove that Rumsey also held up the
Rock Island train near Glasgow on Novem-
ber $, Rumsey served term in the fed
eral prison for robbing boxcars while Il
J United States soldier. lie came direct
10 this city from Leavenworth bought two
pistols, worked two days as a janitor, and
before he quit on November told an
associate that he intended to rob train
RObber starts Work.
The train robbed this morning was No
"A, which left Kansas City at o'clocl
Sunday night. From Kansas City 20 Mex
leo, Mo, the train is run over the Altor
tracks. NJ Mexico it is cut in two, The
Alton portion continuing TO Chicago and th'
Burlington portion going 10 st. Louis
The train reached Slater at midnight, anC
when It started out Of that place five min
utes later Truehart boarded the smoking
car. His eyes were covered by n mask
Levellng a revolver at. two passengers il
the seat nearest the door, he ordered then
TO pass over their money and valuables
and to do it quickly. The men complied
and when, Truehart placed the stun be
meath his belt and proceeded to give hi
command in a loud voice TO the man IN tn
sengers was thoroughly aroused and read:
! to comply. When the robber had sys
tenatically robbed the passengers in tn
smoker OF their belongings he passed to tn
door. keeping them covered. It was
twenty-fv run from Slater L
. Glasgow. and he awaited the arrival a
the latter place. As the train stopped a
Glasgow he swung of and boarded tn
fohair car as it rushed by a moment later
Through The chair car the robbers tactic
in the smoker were repeated Next he en-
tered a sleeper and began his command t
the lucltless passengers to surrender thei
valuables.
:. Conductor DiSarms Bandit.
Conductor Heywooo appeared upon tn
scene here, and Truehsrt, with the CON
mand. Throw up your hands, pointed hi
: revolver at the conductors breast In
stead Of complying the CONDUCTOR quich a
a fash. knocked the revolver from III
robbers hands, threw himself upon III
man and bore him TO the car floor. III
two men struggled herceiy, while the pas
l. sengers were Instantly. in a panic. FSnall
J. the dozen male passengers I'm the car can
. TO the conductors aid and the robbsr wa
literally pinned to the floor.
When Armstrong was reached, AT ia
: a. m, a marshal boarded the train AT
: Tiuehart was tied hand and foot and take
: into the station. He refused to talk, e.
cepi TO berate the passengers for cowardi,
and 10 declare that Haywood WIS the on
; nervy one among them. The money al
= iewelry was taken from him and art
= more delay and confusion apong the e.