| Show LOADED FOR BANDITS J Missouri Pacific Train Robbers Given a Warm Reception + GUARDS ON THE TRAIN t ONE ROBBER CAPTuRED AND ANOTHER WOUNDED + Captured 1YLm Was an Engineer In the Cainpanys Employ Who Stood Well In the Community Fully Twenty shots Were Exchanged Ex-changed + Kansas City Mo Nov 2JA special to the Journal fromSedalia Mo says Missouri Pacific passenger train No 74 which left St Joseph at 230 n m today via Kansas City running from the latter city over the Lexington branch was held up four and a half i miles west of Sed lia at 955 by three masked men one of whom Jim West an engineer in the companys employ I was captured while a second is believed believ-ed to have been wounded and the third escaped Originally the holdup was to have occurred last Friday night but one of the men implicated weakened and the attempt was postponed Last night Superintendent Su-perintendent L D Hopkins was apprised ap-prised that the holdup was arranged for tonight and he prepared for it When the train left Kansas City at 545 p m six secret service men in the compaifys employ were aboard V hen the point where the attempt was to be made was to be approached two of the men Tom Furlong of St Louis and W W Kay of toe Missouri Pacific took their position in the cab of the engine Four mQre men with Detective Detec-tive Frank Barnett of the Missouri Pacific Pa-cific at OsawatoriUe Kan in charge were secreted in the baggage car One mile wesLof GeorgetoWn at Muddy Creek Engineer Daniels was signaled 10 stop anddid so Atonce the three robbers opened fire which was returned by the companys posse of six men Fully twenty shots were exchanged when the robbers realized that they were trapped and began to retreat The ofilcers gave pursuit and Engineer Jim Wrst a freight man was captured The officers fited a number of shots and it is reported that the second robber was wounded but this is not corroborated The train then came on to Sedalia and West was committed to jail As quickly as possible a posse was organized organ-ized and proceeded to the scene of the holdup in the hope of capturing the other two robbers The company officials of-ficials are said to be in JOssession of the names Of the two remaining rob hers and their cature is considered certain At 1230 oclock this Wednesday morning a portion of the posse in pursuit pur-suit of the two remaining robbers returned re-turned They had made no capture They learned where one of the robbers with a badly shattered arm had called at a farm house for bandages claiming that he had been accidentally wounded while coon hunting Detectives Tom Furlong and Frank Barnett with a dozen men are still searching the country in the vicinity of the holdup Jim Vest is a man of family and has I been in the employ of the company for several years He has always stood I well in the community and great surprise sur-prise is expressed that he should be implicated in such a crime 1 |
