Show THREE THE MONTANA YOUTHS I 1 HE UP PASSENGER TRAIN hold holdups ups are captured and make full confession eldest of youthful band ts proves to be only seventeen great falls mont the holding up of great northern Isor thern train no bound from shelby to great falls saturday evening about 10 30 clock at the stock yards about a mile and a half from this city was the work of three boys the oldest of whom was not more than 17 years who now oc cupy cells in the city jail A fourth youth who admits having a aisted in planning the holdup but who was prevented by circumstances from being present and taking part is also a prisoner the quartette have made a complete confession to the police and the officers are inclined to believe their story that they were the only ones implicated the names of the four boys are albert hatch aged 15 harra rheams aged 15 Wil william W illiam liani kandall randall aged 17 george creswell aged 16 according to the story told by ran dall rheams and creswell the hold up was wag planned and earned carried out un der the generalship of hatch the youngest of the four who is said to have turned the switch ordered the engineer to back up and to have gone through the passenger coaches with the conductor forcing the latter at the point of a gun to collect money from the passengers according to the other boys it was also hatch who shot dempsey and shot at con ductor jack hayes sending a bullet pullet through hayes left sleeve the boys iad read considerable yellow liter on the subject of train rob berles and they were desirous of emulating the examples of the youn eer zer brothers hid curry and his gang and frank hauger and mcdonald william v N dempsey an augusta ranchman was shot through the leg in attempting to escape from the train after it had stopped and conductor jack hayes was shot through the left sleeve conductor hayes was compelled by the robber to precede him in pass ing through the cars he carrying a hat in which the passengers we were r e invited to dump what cash they had about them |