Show A Secret Meeting PITTSBUBO April 18An afternoon paper publishes a sensational item in which it is stated that a secret meeting of the em ployes of the Pan Handle road was held last night to forco the railroad authorities to some kind of compromise It is proposed to demand guarantee that no further arrests ar-rests shall be made and that all men now employed on tho road be completely exonerated exoner-ated from any complicity in the alleged theft Should these guarantees not be forthcoming the men will decline to enter again into tho companys service under tho suspicions resting upon them It is quite probable that the hearings will be held in the cases on Monday More than half the prisoners have already waived a preliminary hearing for court trial and it is believed the others will take the same action This will enable the defendants to get their cases before the grand jury in time for tho present term of court Within the past twentyfour hours a number num-ber of the prisoners have made voluntary confessions to the attorneys of the company but the nature of these disclosures has not been given to the public It is claimed however how-ever that they tally almost exactly with the facts as learned by the detectives in their researches It is thought that before the trial comes off nearly all the men will have admitted their part in tho robbery Another and very important arrest was made today H C Busby who escaped from the officers at Dennison Ohio on Monday by jumping from the train was recaptured this morning and lodged in jail He is regarded by the detectives as one of the ringleaders Conductor Black who was absent since his release on bail returned to the city this morning and is ready to stand trial |