The Globe-republican., 1906-11-29
BANDITS STORY
Robbed Passengers on Train Be-
tween Slater and Glasgow, Mo.
and Was Caught in Act.
SAYS he GOT ABOUT $500
He Gave Oficers Detailed Descrip-
tiOn of How the Robbery Was
Affected and How He
Was Captured.


Marshall, Mo-, Nov. 27.-Special
Agent Rolla Green of the Chicago &
Alton railway company, In company
with constable of Glasgow, Mo-, ar
rived here at o'clock Monday after
noon from Glasgow, Mo-, bringing
with him the bandit that held up and
robbed the Early Bird, Chicago & AL
ton train Sunday night between Slater
and Glasgow, Mo. He was taken i'm
mediately to the county Jail and at
his request Prosecuting Attorney w.
G. Lynch and Joshua Barbee, the new
ly elected prosecuting attorney, were
sent for. He asked that all others
be excluded from his call while he
talked to them. He stated that he
would make complete confession Of
the entire affair If they would agree
to reduce the charge 10 that of bur.
glary, thereby receiving small peni.
tentiary sentence. This the officers
refused to do, or hold out any prom
ise of reward or mitigation wha ever
for confession, stating TO him that
he had committed an offense which In
this state was punishable by death.
with a minimum punishment of ten
years in the penitentiary. He stated
that 1t was his intention, IL he would
be allowed to plead guilty to a small
penitentiary sentence, that he could
go to the penientiary, serve the time
and come out and live an honest life;
otherwise, should they send him to
the penitentiary for twenty years or
more upon his release he would take
up his old crime of robbing trains.
He gave out the following staten mt
to the prosecuting attorney.
my name Is Claud Randall. My
age is 80 years and nine months.
came from st. Louis to Mexico, Mo-,
on tie Wabash and from Mexico to
Slater on the Chicago & Alton rail-
road Sunday. My brother was the
one who robbed the Golden State
Limited and he told me that the Col
den State Limited did not stop be-
tween Slater and Mexico, and for that
reason came to Slater to get on the
train. | got in the smoking car and
went through 1t and robbed two or
three other cars. | did not take any
money from workingmen or ladies,
as | 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 passenger
that | did not want any of Ills money
because he was laborer, SAID he was
a laborer, also. did not believe him
and asked him to show me his hands.
Upon looking at them / found them
as soft as woman's. | then made
him dig up, taking from him his $45
watch, which told him | would send
to the st. Louis Republic, where he
could get 1t, as | only wanted it to
keep time by until l got TO my desti-
nation. When the train reached Glas-
Cow, got off on the platform and as
the train started to move | mounted
it again and commenced to go through
the passengers Of a sleeping car,
where | allowed the conductor to get
too close TO me and he grabbed my pis-
tol and my throat. He then wrenched
the pistol from me and l 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 thirty miles an hour.
The train soon stopped and | was cap
tured and put off at Armstrong and
brought from there the next morning
to Glasgow and from there to this
place today. | was born near Grant
City, Mo-, and was in California and
came back to Missouri about six
months ago. | got about $1,000 and
about eight or ten watches from the
on the train. did not
want this jewelry, but they forced me
to take it."