Show A Coafesloa I Kansas City 27John Laird of the indicted Blue Cut train robbers rob-bers made a confession this after nnon at Inpependence He says that seven boys were with the old gang which was headed by a man he supposed to have been Jesse James that it was the members of the old gang who entered the express ex-press car and went through the train and that all the country boys did was to keep up the racket on the outside After the robbery the entire party went into the woods a short distance where the leaders who had all the swag in their possession said to the boys Boys we havent got time to divide they are too hot after us and we didnt get the money we expecied anyhow butwe will all meet on the right fork of the Blue next Wednesday night just one week from the night of the robbery With that all of the old gang mounted and rode away with all the booty in their possession while Laird and his comrades dispersed dis-persed for their homes no richer than when they started Before the night arrived which had been set for the divide most of them were safely jailed and others were fleeing the country as rapidly as possible pos-sible He declares his belief that the robbery was a put up job deliberately delib-erately planned by James and his gang for the double purpose of securing se-curing the plunder and getting the country boys into trouble in order to divert the attention of the authorities au-thorities from their own actions |