Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-07-10
NAB TRAIN ROBBERS
WE'RE ONLY 20 MILES FROM THE
SCENE OF HoLDuP WHEN MET
5Y LA GRANpE OFFICER.
CHARLIE MANNING, LEADER OF GANG
He Was Fatally Shot During the Rob-
berry and Two Pals Who Escaped
Now Confess and Give up
Their Plumber.

Pendleton, Ore.-Albert Meadows
and Clarence Stoner, two of the three
train robbers who held up O.-W. R. &
N. train No. 5 neal Mecham July q,
were arrested Sunday by Deputy Sher-
iff S. A. Batcheler of La Grande.
The leader of the gang, who was
shot and killed by Deputy Sheriff Geo.
McDuffee at the time of the holdup,
is Charley Manning, a professional
gambler, and not Hugh Whitney, the
notorious outlaw.
All three robbers were from Coke
Vile, Wyo. Manning has a wife and
four children in Cokeville. He was
a close personal friend of both Hugh
and Charley Whitney. Stoner is a
cousin of the Whitney boys.
Diamond Hidden.
When arrested the two train rob-
bers were walking along the railroad
track in the direction of La Grande
and less than 20 miles from the scene
of the holdup. Neither was armed,
and offered no resistance when placed
under arrest. They had $3.50 in cash
and the $500 diamond ring taken from
H. B. Boyce, the Walla Walla brewer
who was a passenger on the train, but
the diamond was hidden when they
were arrested. 1t was recovered later.
In conjunction with@other officers
t Batcheler has been watching the
railroad track in the vicinity of La
Grande eve since the holdup. When
he saw these two men coming down
the track he stopped them, and not
being satisfied with their explanation
took them into La Grande.
y Robbers Confess.
; Soon after their arrival Sheriff
Taylor secured a complete confession
g and a promise from the men that they
would lead him and Wood to the point
where they had thrown away the ring
5 and also to the place in the mountains
9 where they had cached their gun:
and the valuables taken from the pas
sengers on the train.
According to the confession made
by Meadows the men are shepherd
ers, while Manning was a professional
gambler. They say Manning was tn,
n leader, and the man who first sug
@ gested the crime.
"Glad to Come In"
d 81 am mighty glad to come in an
q have it all over with" said Alder
e Meadows.
ID "That is exactly the way | fee
about it," agreed Clarence Stone
IL when the two men were seen at tn
county Jail. Continuing, Stoner said
"This is the first time either of u
10 was ever in trouble of this kind, an
10 the first time either of us wal eve
Il under arrest"
Meadows says both his parents ar
d. dead. Stoner says his mother and sis
d ter are living at Asotin, Wash. Bot
- men spent the entire day in the mour
tains with Sheriff Taylor and Agen
Wood picking up the loot taken fror
of the train at the time of the robbery.
All the Plumber Recovered.
IN When arrested the two men had |
Ii. their possession 1885 and two damon
rings. One of these was valued g
II, $500 by the owner, H. B. Boyce. a Wa
la Walla brewer.
After they were halted by the del
~ uty sheriff at Hilgard, IL miles frol
the scene of the robbery, Meadow
- went down to the creek to get a drin
:. and placed the large diamond under
- stone in the water. Later, when b
y. found the officer was going to TAX
them into La Grande, he dropped tn
- smaller ring along the railroad tracl
m These two rings, the guns, and all til
.@ plumber taken from the express CO
- and from the passengers were reco
-. cred and are now in the office of She
iff Taylor. The articles were hidde
in four places several miles apart s
that the work of recovering them r
IT. Quired the entire day.