The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-27
DARING BANDIT
STILL HAS NERVE
Makes Full Statement as to Bold
Train Robbery on Chi
cago & Alton.
"W0ULDN'T TAKE MONEY
FROM LAB0RING MEN,
Under the Missouri Law the
Extreme Penalty for His
Crime Is Death. Z

MARSHALL, Mo, Nov. 26.-The
bandit who held up the Chicago 6 AL
ton train last night between Glasgow
and Slater, Mo-, was brought to the
county Jail this afternoon and imme-
diately opened negotiations with the
Prosecuting Attorney, Offering to make
a full confession if the charge against
him was made burglary. In Missouri
the extreme penalty for train robbery
Is death, the minimum ten years i'm.
prlsonment. The Prosecutor refused
any concession, and the bandit then
volunteered a statement as follows:
My name is Claude Randall; my age 90
years and month. came from ST, Louis to
mexico. Mo-. on the Wabash and FROM Mex
leo TO Slater on the Chicago & Alton railroad
yesterday My brother was the one 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 rea-
son | came TO Slater to get the train:
got In the smoking car and went through it
ana ropoed TWO OF three other cars.
Would Not Rob Laborers.
did not take any money from worklngmen
or ladies, as l only wanted to take money
from those that hnd made IL easy and could
afford It. One man on the train, when he
not want any OF his mouey because be was a
laoorer, said he a lahorer also. | did
not believe him, and asked him TO show me
his hands. Upon looking at them | found
them soft a sa womans then made hin,
dig up. taking from him his Si5 watch which
| told him l would send TO the ST Louis
Republic. where be could get it, 1 only
wanted IL TO keep time by until / got TO my
destination.
When she train reached Glasgow ! got off
on the platform, and the train started
N nNnN sa1
10 go through the passengers in sleeper
where l allowed the conductor to GET too
close 10 me and he grabbed my pistol and my
throat. lie then wrenched the pistol from
me; and I broke and 70 the back OF the
| train.
Complains of Treatment.
Many OF the passengers aud all OF the rrain
crew rushed upon Inc while the train was in
motion, struck me upon the head with the
pistol and tried TO throw me overheard while
the train wns running .hir.y miles an hour.
The train soon stopped and was captured
and pu, off a, Armstrong and brought from
there the next morning TO Glasgow, and from
there 20 this place today.
l born Grant City. Mo, and was
out in California and came hack to Missouri
about six months ago. / got about $500
and about eight or ten witches from the
passengers on the train. ] did not want
this jewelry, but they forced me to take it,
The prisoner is now awaiting a pre-
liminary 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 capture
and he has a deep cash in his fore
head, where he was struck over the
head with pistol when they were
trying to capture him. The officers are
confident from the evidence they have
that it was the same man who robbed
the Golden State Limited. and not his
brother, and that he is only naming the
" brother in hope of receiving light
sentence