Show TRAIN WAS NOT ROBBED trashed tram from ills horse picked up unconscious by kansas city mo jan 31 john P kennedy a locomotive engineer who comes from the notorious cracker neck district notkar not far from blue cut and whom the police have endeavored to connect with some of cf the many recent train robberies in the outskirts of kansas city was brought into the hospital nt at police headquarters under circumstances that have caused commotion in police circles A man was picked up tip on west seventeenth entee nth street in an unconscious condition by persons persona who had seen him thrown from a horse which ho be was riding the horse having slipped on the P pavement averment the injured man upon being taken to police headquarters aiters proved to be john kennedy disguised by a false chin beard and equipped for an expedition that could not have meant peace for his fellowmen fel in one of kennedys Kenn edys pockets was a black domino mask distributed about his clothing were the several pieces of a disjointed shotgun in addition to these were a 43 45 caliber revolver and a liberal supply of cartridges an and shotgun shells lie also carried a lantern kennedy admitted to the officers that it was the intention to rob the union pacific train about six miles m les out of the city and then to get back into town before the police could be notified n oti fied ile he said that they had bad received a tip that ti oooo was to be carried on the train kennedy has been tried several times for complicity in train robbery but has always been acquitted the police will prosecute him for carrying concealed weapons kennedy boarded with andy ryan afore a foreman manof of a brigade of tho kansas city fire department who is of the notorious ryan of the james and younger gang of train robbers this was andy ryans night off |