Show A Missouri Pacific Train Bobbed LAMAR Mo Jan 23The Missouri Pacific Pa-cific train which reaches here at 123o this morning was boarded at Sheldsn by tw men who went to the express car and held s t up Express Messenger Houck Baggrge w Master Hall and Passenger Agent Barrett from whom money and jewely was taken Houck forced open tho safe and a small amount of money was taken from it One of the Train Robbers Killed FORT SCOTT Kan Jan 23Soon after tho robbery at Lamar a dispatch was received re-ceived hero to watch for two men stating they left on a freight for this place Policeman Police-man McLemore saw the men get off the i northbound freight train which arrived here this morning and ho halted them One r of tho men shot him dead I As soon as they shot the policeman they I jumped into an empty box car of a freight F which was just pulling out locking themselves them-selves in Shortly after a passenger train i I from Lamar arrived among the passengers i passen-gers being Detective Chester of the Missouri Mis-souri Pacific who was in pursuit of the bandits accompaniod by Marshal Abbott of Fort Scott and the train went in pursuit of tho freight At t Miamistown tho freight was overtaken and the officers boarded the car immediately immedi-ately behind the one in which the bandits had taken refuge The latter immediately opened fire upon their pursuers The omcers returned the fire and shots were continuously exchanged through the ends of the car all the way to Plensanton a distance Ji t dis-tance of five miles Hero a posse which had been summoned met the train surrounding sur-rounding the car and calling upon the fugitives fugi-tives to surrender They replied by firing through the sides of the car After exchanging ex-changing shots for an hour ono of the robbers rob-bers was killed Tho other then surrendered sur-rendered He is seriously wounded andes and-es his name as Charles Meyers of Kansas City Kansas A reporter called at tho house in Kansas oJ City Kan whero Meyers said he lived Two women were found ono of whom said she was Meyers wife and tho other his mother When asked where Mayors was I they said ho left last night with his brother for Harrisonville and was expected home tonight Mrs Meyers said her husband was running a joint or Kansas saloon The police do not know him It supposed the dead robber is S C Francis |