Show tittle 4 the gong of desper desperadoes adors who at tempted to wreck a rock kock inland train a fw few weeks ago having cli escaped coped capture cip turc have now issued front from their sare sale retreat and nd are arc again engaged in sit similar nilar feats or of murder nod spoliation the acl etli graph yea erday informs inform us that on the night of the alb a raid was wag made upon the aters ctr car on th tho 0 ila hannibal it st joseph road by a gang of dien who are supposed to bo be tile the w their prowess in n the th of trenton missouri the track was wa blockaded between com cam cron and nd kansas city and ami tho the murderers awaited in ambush the tha destruction of the train fortunately tho the en giager kw the obstruction and reversing his train in time ran back out of danger this thesis is getting to ie i a regular lubi limi nw tho the same night some other party of dastardly operators made in an attempt t to capture a passenger train on I 1 the tha atlantic and pacific Iaci fie rad road near dear leavenworth this effort also alsa happily liap failed A number dumber ora of shots bots were fired at 1 l the engineer atia and the windola win 7 dova wera shed in rith stones tho the following night tb tho a same fame gang mado made a more daring attempt dpn the iha same ema road eight or ten ru mama tool took their seats beats on a passenger train and whop when dear ito II olleo cc they started up and began to the passengers under the pre predence pretence tence of searching arching Ee for horse borse thieves by good fortune the conductor happened to bo be a man of nettle mettle ile resisted their right of search and resolutely demanded their fares tills this was refused with a redundancy of if expletive pl etive drawing ho his revolver the conductor called upon the passengers fur for aid the american mind is u very ready to accommodate itself to circumstances the abo attack on the rock hock island train was via a new experience and 16 possen acra fat paralyzed with fear whilo the robbers helped themselves to the trea treasure contained in the express cr car but hero here they were ready for far the amer emergency gency fifteen fideca pass passenger probably 1 all I tho the able bodied men in the car responded to tho the conduct con doctora orlis call which demon J bemoll strati oo tile iho ruffian ruh fidfl 9 rod they retreated to the platform but true ruo to 0 o their Lul lying 9 ai EtIl elekta mets ono one or two of tile the cowed villains vented curses upon the be passengers this drew firo cro from a few of the revolvers and one ribald ruffian fell lead dead while another was cly wounded it was evident that the wrong passengers passenger s bad been aroused and on the stoppage stop pago of the tram train at holden the gang hastily beat i a retreat carrying their dead and wounded companions with them they should all have been arrested what strikes the mind as remarkable is 15 the immunity which attends abee murderous raids raida we male make treat least boast of the perfection of our detective system tided aided ob it is wit with photography ind and the telegraph wires yet gangs of desperadoes can roam ono one of the most moil mo il populous of our waste ra states bl bucl L ing travel on trunk lines of railway P murdering destroying property and putting hundreds of lives hyes in peril red and A till mill the efforts of the police at capturing them fellows are of no avail the TLe seven ruffians who stopped the bilock island triin train murdering murde ito abo engineer and manioc off with several thou thousand dollars us worth of tre treasure asare were hunted through the country by hundreds of indignant farmers until the regi fugitives tives tool took to cover somewhere in county lifis missouri we were then comforted with the assurance that the police would certainly ferret them out the locality where they disappeared is thickly thic lLly r settled kansas city lies in ilk county yet either cither through collusion on the part of the lie officials or disgraceful gra cerui lack or of emcie efficiency ncy tho the vil villain laim are aro allowed to in secure retreat until their thirst lor for booty prompts them to gain again talo tale to the road the romantic achievements of dick turpin and claude duval havo have afforded edification to generations we it il our boat that such chee dUers would have a disastrously bhart career in the present day but tile the in im that attends al crime in open day hardly justifies a lile like cc confidence fi the 1 lie benders who villo full followed owed a career and years probably are still at large three attempts upon railroad trains train made by 93 many gangs of ruffling rUf flang pas ithee save when the passengers adlain prompt justice I 1 find end murder back robbi robberies cries anil nl other daring crillies cri flies uro arc of almo it daily commission the arpe gerpe erpe tractors in the iho majority of cases cli caping detection it u t ident we must r reform our police system before we malt make further boost boast of tho the swift dentric I 1 too which awaits evil doers |