| Show I TRAIN HELD UP BY DY LONE RUDDER Fifteen Passengers on the Al AI Alton AIton Alton ton Out of Kansas City Com Come Compelled ComI to Disgorge BANDIT TOOK BIG CHANCES REMAINED ABOARD AND WAS WASI WASIA ARRESTED A R R ESTE D Kansas City MO Nov 26 A lone rob robber robber ber her masked and armed robbed fifteen passengers on eastbound Chicago Al Alton Alton Alton ton passenger train No Glasgow Mo shortly after atter midnight He was ar arrested arrested arrested rested before he could leave the tile train and was taken to Glasgow and placed In Jail Jan The robbed train Is known as the Ear Early Early ly Bird It left Kansas City CIt at 9 Sunday night and was due at Slater at 1227 Monday morning At Slat Slater er the robber a mask over his eyes boarded the rear roar ear car as the train was pulling out After the train had re reduced reduced reduced speed the man revolver in hand entered the car ear and began a n systematic robbery of the passengers pal Fifteen of oC them were made to disgorge As the train passed through Glasgow Glagow at which point it does not stop the man was seen at work by b the station agent who wired the chief dispatcher of or the fact Officers Met Train Armstrong the next station east cast of Glasgow was notified and officers were at the station to meet the th train when it pulled In No Xo stop Is ordinarily made at Armstrong and the robber evidently sat satisfied satisfied In the belief that he was secure for this reason suspected no harm when that point was reached When the train stopped at Armstrong Armstro J on orders and the officers boarded It they tho caught the rob robber robbe her ber be berHe beHe He was taken without serious difficulty and under Instructions from the Kansas City office was taken back to Glasgow and placed In jail there The robber is 5 feet 3 5 inches in height weighs pounds and wore a corduroy cap He lie wore ware a mask that covered his hits eyes I The Tha robbed J train wan wu In charge o of oC Con Conductor ConI Conductor ductor Haywood and nd In IR one of ot the tile fast fastest i est eat on o the Chicago Alton iton It runs ruml through St Louis to Chicago o i Like Former Robbery robbery Is an almost exact duplication of that committed on the same line on Nov No 9 whim when a lone hone robber hea heavily fly ily masked boarded the rear sleeper of the Chicago Rock Island Pacific over overland overland overland land train which runs on the Alton tracks and at the point of two revolvers ls forced the Pullman conductor a negro porter and a brakeman to proceed ahead of him and awaken the passengers while I he robbed them themOn themOn I On that occasion the th robber passed the I women omen by b and succeeded in getting but I 68 which he took from three male pas passengers passengers passengers This robber escaped and no definite clue was over ever learned of him except that he was described as 39 young and as a a n man who wh was next to his job Between Kansas City CIt and Chicago the Rock Island overland uses UleS the Alton tracks The officers believe that the man who committed robbery is III the same who went though the Rock Island ear earlier earlier lier Her In the month When rob robber robber ber her was arrested by the Armstrong oUt officers cers he had gone one through three cars of the Alton Altor train Refused to Give Name j I IThe The robber was held at Armstrong un until untIl til the next train west when he was tak taken taken taken en to Glasgow Gla ow for safe keeping He re refused refused refused fused to 10 give his hits name and denied that he ho had hod anything to do with the robbery The train robbed tonight is a combination combination tion Chicago o Alton and Chicago Bur Burlington Burlington lington Quincy passenger From Kan sas City to Mexico Mexie Mo 10 it is run over the Alton tracks At Mexico the train Is la cut out in two the Alton portion x on Chicago to and the Burlington portion going to St Louis One of the passEngErs passenger robbed robb was T J 1 Bums Burns general agent of or the passenger j department of the Chicago Alton at j Kansas City It |
