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Show TRAIN ROBBERS BETRAYED. H One of the (lane Weakened andiMade a M Confession. Scdalia, Mo., Dee. 2. Engineer H James I. West and Conductor Ell. J. H Stubblefcld, who held up tho Mtsssourl -H Pacific train near hero Tuesday night H will have a preliminary hearing Deo.8. H Tho confeslon of R. R. Cunningham, " "XmW the third of tho trio, who weakened at itsfl tho last moment, is mado public. In ," U substanco ho says that the first tlmo ha il was spoken to about tralu robbing was rB by Stubblefcld In last May. Stubble- H feld was at that tlmo breaking on the '"'LI Missouri, Kansas & Texas road. Stub- esfl blcfeld met Cunningham and his ' afH brother Charllo in a saloon, ho says, SsH and asked them it they would "go In" .'Sasl with him and another man and rob a "MalLsfl train, htublcfeld came to him again J?M and told him that Jim West, an en- VlH glnceron tho MissourlPaclflc, would - J& , MmW help him. Then Jim West talked to JH him about helping Stubblefeld. After ' ' k ho refused, West and Stubblefcld '--4 -B threatened to kill him if ho betrayed t V H them. Monday evening West camo to , M -thebutcharshopofsWrJ. Letts, whercf - f 'i- s.jmmW Cunningham works, and told him that " ijMumm ho and Stubblefeld would rob the '4kmmmm Misouri Paclflo train Tuesday night. VaVsssH |