Show 89 R H i S A robn D no H ff M MASKED ASKED M AN WAS GOING THROUGH A TRAIN i I 1 I 1 I 1 1 H had ad secured 2000 when he met hie t an unexpected defeat and be came a prisoner kansas city mo nov 26 one ot of the most unique anil and daring train robberies in the history of the southwest was coi committed miles east cast of kansas kangas city Cit yearly early today between slater and armstrong mo a di distance stanco of 21 miles a masked man single handed robbed twenty passengers in three cars of the fast fasi eastbound combination chicago and alton chicago burlington and quincy passenger train after halt an lioi hours irs work vork he secured approximately two thousand dollars besides several watches and other pieces of jewelry the naan man finally was overpower edby E B heywood the train conductor who knocked a halsell revolver from the robbers hand and forced him to the car floor the robber was bound made to disgorge and four hours after the robbery ber y was committed was placed iu in jail the robber who said his name was trueheart and that he came from call fornia was recognized by tho the engineer as the same man who on nov 9 in exactly the same manner and at the same place on the road went through the rear sleeper of an eastbound chicago rock island pacific overland limited which on this division runs over the alton tracks trueheart who refused to give his full rame name or tell what town he came cagne from said that jt was war his brother who held up the rock hock island train the train robbed this in morning orning was no 24 which left kansas city at 9 sunday night from kanban clur to mexico mo the trains run over the alton tracks at mexico it Is 1 cut in two the alton portion coa tinning on to chicago and the burlington portion going to st louis the train reached slater at midnight and anda when it started out of that five minutes later trueheart boarded the tha smoking car his eyes were covered by ain aaTi Le velling a rey revolver olver at two p passengers as sense rs lp jn theeart the seat eat alie h e dobr be ordered them eid to I 1 puss ass over their money and valuables andio do ao it quickly the men complied and when trueheart placed the stuff beneath his belt and proceeded to give his command in a loud voice to the man in the next seat forward the car full of passengers was thoroughly aroused and ready ta to comply aheu the robber had systematically relieved reli cred the passengers in the smoker of their belon belongings ginis he backed to the door keeping them covered it was a awen ty five minute run from slater to glasgow an and d he awaited the arrival at the latter place As asa the train stopped at glasgow he swung off and hoarded boarded the chair car as it whizzed by a moment later through the chair car the robbers tactics in the smoker were repeated next he entered a sleeper and began again his command to the luckless passengers to surrender their valuables conductor heywood appeared upon the scene here and trueheart with the command throw up your hands I 1 j pointed his bis revolver at the conductors breast instead of com complying plying the coni con i ductor quick as a flash knocked the revolver from the robbers hand threw himself upon the man and bore hlin him to the car goor floor the two men struggled fiercely while the passengers were instantly in a panic finally the dozen male passengers in the car camo came to the conductors ald aid and trueheart was literally pinned to the floor when armstrong was reached at 1250 a m a in marshal arshal boarded tho thoa I 1 train and trueheart was tied hand and foot and taken into the station ile he refused to talk except to beratto barale the passengers for cowardice and to declare that heywood was the only nervy one among them the money aad jewelry was taken from him and after much delay and confusion returned to the excited passengers and the train continued cast r I 1 t Tru trueheart ebeart was taken to glasgow on t the he next westbound train and at this h morning n not quite four hours after he bo boarded beai aed the eastbound train at slater lie ho was placed in in jail trueheart eheart talked freely but would toll tell nothing more definite about himself than that he had come coine from california and that his brother had robbed the rock island train out of slater on nov ath and escape escaped d trueheart eheart appears to bp be 3 32 0 Y years ars old lie he Is IF five feet five I 1 inches nc h es in I 1 height and weighs about pounds Hs his description tallies with nat that of the rock island robber and the engineer of to nights robbed train positively identified him as the same identical man A passenger n e on the robbed eastbound alton burlington train who returned to kansas city this morning hom Glaz glasgow gow said mid the robber was war on one of the ne nerviest ner imaginable he only weak weakened eneil when conductor heywood and a number ot of pa passengers engers literally jumped upon him after jhb conductor harti bat panne him to tho the floor then tho the robber as ar the passengers kicked and struck at him cried oh my mother and gave in n tho robber covered the and the colored porter in the chair car and made them thein aid him rob the passengers conductor Hc wood got tho the lipper hand when whan tho the robber while operating in tho the sleeper stooped momentarily to put away securely some of the booty he hi hod lk just secured heywood nIt although hugh sixty yeas yeam of age grapp ledi with the man wrested his rev revolver over from froin him and then as the robber ran down tho the ajolo fired a shot at him lie he snapped the revolver A second time but it did not fire aton it was I 1 I 1 I 1 that condu conductor actor hoy wood literally boro bora the man to the floor and the passengers jumped upon him among the gem robbed were W S baker of denver james barnev a section foreman 0 of Gl algaw gaw and frank burns bums a train dee de from kansas city |