Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-09-07
Freund Gave Him Away.

st. Louis, Mo-, Sept. 7.-Because
he missed a train, Emil Freund, of
Chicago, has confessed to the police
today that he. did not help, as he
had planned, IN the robbery of the
Pacific coast express on the Burling.
ton railroad as it left st. Louis last
night
Freund arrested as a suspect, has
confessed to the police that he
planned to participate in the hold
up, in which Flagman ]. M. Wine
was killed and four passengers
robbed.
The man who committed the rob-
berry and murder, according to
Freund, is Albert Julien, also Of
Chicago. The police are seeking Ju-
lien today. They believe he is in
st. Louis.
Freund says that he and Julien
planned to rob the express and that
he was to meet his confederate at
the United station. He was late in
getting there, he said, and when he
reached the station the big iron
gates that separate the areaway
from the train shed proper had been
banged shut and the train was
crawling around the curve at the end
of the platform and across the
switches that lead to the station
yards. Julien, he thinks, was con-
cealed on the rear platform of the
train when it pulled away from the
station.
After Freund's arrest, he was
questioned closely by the police. 1t
was at first believed that he was the
man who committed the robbery but
he has convinced the detectives that
the story he tells'of a pfan to parti-
cipate in the hold-up is true and has,
it is believed, established the fact
that he was not on the robbed train.
The police are aroused over the
attempted robbery in the very heart
of the city. Only a year ago
train on the Missouri Pacific bound
for ST. Louis was robbed within n
few miles of the city
The robbery was planned and exc
cuted in true Jesse James style. Af-
ter Freund failed to arrive and the
lone bandit determined that he
would carry out the plan single
handed, he swung himself aboard
the last of the Pullmans at the rear
of the train. The bandits face was
covered with a blue handkerchief
and a big slouch hat was drawn
down over the eyes.
He encountered Flagman Wine,
who moved toward him as though he
intended to throw him off the plat
form. The bandit drew his revolver
and shot the trainman, killing him
instantly. Then he pitched Wines
body TO the ground.
He entered the car and forced the
porter into the little closet in which
clean linen is carried. Then he
forced the train electrician, Thomas
Griffin, to rob the passengers. With
drawn revolver, the bandit went
from berth TO berth, forcing Griffin
to rob the passengers.
Five persons were forced to give
up their valuables. Then the train
slowed down for the Washington
avenue station and the bandit, keep
ing Griffin and the passengers COW
cred with his revolver, backed to the
door and dropped off as the train
came to a stAndstill.
The robbery occurred while the
train was running over the elevated
tracks along the Mississippi aver.
Wine was shot while the train was
in the yards. His body was thrown
to track along which the train
was running A switch engine II
the yard passed over the body. sew
ering one of the fagman's arms
The robbery itself began. is|
said while the train was within ;our
blocks Of the police headquarters, as
the train passed through the yards
in the very heart Of St, Louis. The
hold-up was discovered a few min
.utes after the bandit disappeared
and conductor Brady notified the
authorities
Freund was captured at the union