Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-26
.D|SARMEO THE BANDIT
Merry Conductor Interrupts a
Train HoId-Up.
L0NE-HANDED ROAD AGENT
Cowed ALI but One Man With a Six
Shooter.
RAILR0ADED TO THE LOOKUP
Robber Had Accumulated So, 900 in
Money and Considerable Jewelry
When He Was Stopped.
lAILR0ADED TO THE Lookup

NANNo~Ao I'll Xho', ANONSiuDST -o-OHS
of the most unique and daring train rob-
berries in the history of the southwest was
committed 100 miles east of Kansas City
early today. Between Slater and Arm
strong, Mo-, distance of twenty-one miles,
masked man. single handed. robbed
twenty passengers in three cars of the fast
eastbound combination Chicago and Alton
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy passenger
train. After half an hours work he Sc
cured approximately $1,000, besides several
man was finally overpowered by E. B.
Haywood, the train conductor, who
knocked a raised revolver from the rob-
ber's hand and forced him to the car floor
The robber was bound, made to disgorge
| and four hours after the robbery was COM
mitted was placed in Jail.
The robber, who said his name was True
heart and that he came from California,
was recognized by the engineer as the
same man who on November last, in an
place on the road, went through the rear
sleeper of an eastbound Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific overland limited, which
on this division runs over the Alton tracks.
Trueheart, who. refused to give his full
name or tell what town he came from, said
that it was his brother who held up the
Rock Island train
The train robbed this morning was No.
"a, which left Kansas City at 9 o'clock
Sunday night. From Kansas City to Mex
leo. Mo-, the train is run over the, Alton,
tracks At Mexico it is cut in two, the
Alton portion continuing to Chicago and
the Burlington portion going to st. Louis
Passengers Were Docile.
The train feaehed Slater at midnight and
when II started out OF that place FIVE min
utes later Truehart boarded the smoking
car. His eyes were covered by mask
Leveling a revolver at two passengers in
the seat nearest the door, he ordered them
to pass over their money and valuables and
to do it quickly. The men complied and
when Truehart placed the stun beneath his
belt and proceeded to give his command in
a loud voice to the man in the next seat
forward the-car full of passengers was
thoroughly aroused and ready to comply.
When the robber had Systematically robbed
the passengers in the smoker of their be-
lodgings he passed to the door, keeping
them covered. 1t was a twenty-fve-minute
run from Slater to Glasgow and he awaited
the arrival at the latter place. AS the train
stopped at Glasgow he swung OF and
boarded the chair car as 1t rushed by
moment later. Through the chair car the
robbers tactics in the smoker were re-
peated. Next, he entered sleeper and be-
gan again his command to the luckless pas
sengers to surrender their valua bes.
Conductor Haywood appeared upon the
scene here and Truehart. with the command
Throw up your hands, pointed his re-
vyo1v af cOnducfOr'S hrpaSf Instead
Of complying, the conductor. quick as
flash, knocked the revolver from the rob-
ber's hand, threw himself upon the man
and bore him to the car floor. The two men
struggled fiercely while the passengers were
instantly in a panic. Finally the dozen male
passengers in the car came to the con-
ductor's aid and the robber was pinned to
the floor.
Praised the Conductor.
When Armstrong was reached at 1880
am. marshal boarded the train and True
hart was tied hand and foot and taken
into the station. He refused to talk, except
to berate the passengers for cowardice and
to declare that Haywood was the only
nervy one among them. The money and
jewelry were taken from him and after
more delay and confusion among the excited
passengers the train continued.
Truehart was taken to Glasgow on the
next westbound train and at $50 this morn
Ing not quite four hours after he boarded
the eastbound train at Slater. he was placed
In Jail.
Truehart talked freely. but would not
speak definitely about himself more than
that he came from California and that his
brother had robbed the Rock Island train
out of Slater on November 8 and escaped
! Truehart appears to be thirty-two years
old. He is FIVE feet five inches in height
and weighs about 135 pounds. His descrip-
fiOn fafl1aQ with that he Tell 4
robber aHd-the engineer of last nights rob-
bed train positively identified him as the
same man.