The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 17, 1886, Page 1

r LS HyoL. VII. | The Butler Weekly Times. ANOTHER LETTER. eel if | BUTLER, MISSOURI. WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER17 . 1886 A DISGUSTED ROBBER. My two braves (?) came up atter | Vy ings” Evinces His Chivalry | the train pulled out and told me about | -_—-e- dy A Sensational Development BS Frisco Robbery. “4 in the The latest thing in the ’Frisco abbery case is a letter received by the Globe emocrat. It was mailed at. Joseph and contained two torn envelopes from which monev jad been taken. They were un- J doubtedly genuine: B st Joe, Mo., Oct. 31, 1886.—Ed- ior Globe Democrat, St. Louis, Mo.: Dear Sir—I write these lines particularly right a wrong done innocent man. I see by the wewspapers thatin the account of Aibe late express robbery on the Fnscoroad, some of the papers yd you in particular, throw a kind suspicion that the messenger, Mr. “BFaneringham, had something to do with it. Now, bad asI am, I am ‘Pill not so debased as to stand by “Y ‘Budseeaman’s life blighted by a at } wspicion while I can clear it up without endangering myself. I done t work alone, and will now re JB ite exactly how it was done. Ido MB wt write this for the mere purpose Gy bravado, but only to clear up the eter of Farthringham ifI can. To commence with I was at Vini- 1. Ty., a little oyer a year alto- PByetber, I think, when the Indian A payment was being paid out, and oommenced to think then that I Boold catch on. After inquiring ie wound a bit, I tound out that the 45 8 express brought it down to B,Lous. Ithen found out that Adams express was the only one arrying government money and al carned the money from the different mints throughout the coun . Ithen got a couple of partners (4 poor ones 1 afterwards found Pout, and we arranged to do up the SP Frisco at Cuba lunction, Mo. 1 (pid first come over the route from i Louis to Springfield several times carefully noted the stops which ted very favorable for the work, came to the conclusion that vba Junction was the place. After watching around there we dout that the might express ttimes put off beer and saw mill tings at that place. We then ar dtoship a casting from St. is, and when the messenger Oe x — Ne: at would jump in and hold him up td nde with him to Rolla, which is the Next stop, and would give rly an hours time if I remember Well, we arranged the plan right and went up toSt. Louls BP bought a cheap cog wheel with flaw in it, and boxed it up in such thape as not to show the flaw. took it down to the express one afternoon, I think in ber, last year, and had it bill- : IRI 4 M out that it was needed at once at : Junction, as parties would PMeover trom Oak Hill funded. | ome place, I think it is Oak Hill, # get it, and would expect it on the Mttrain. I think the box was “oe Thos. Edmunds, Cuba tion, Mo. Although I am not % Of the name as persons in my ot business use so many differ- t ot them. Junction. png ts my labor by ru of that. Would open the door to put it off, | I} a$a casting, and [told the! or Oak | ames that itis hard to keep T rode down in the} Seatof the smoker, and my! » Partners were waiting for me at | Well, 1 jumped minute the train stopped and “Ptothe door of the express} “*xpecting to see my two part- there waiting, but they were seing back tully a hundred feet the train. The sand had simp- Kthem when the train came in » and hardly felt able to do eWork alone, so the casting was om, and the messenger shut the nt away, and that was all | some cock and bull story about be- ing watched, about the telegraph | Operator there, but the fact was that | | they simply lacked the nerve, so I | | was disgusted with them, and as my money was then about exhausted, I went to St. Louis and worked | awhile, and finally dritted around the country to a certain town in Ohio. I will not name the town for cer- tain reasons, but while there I fell in with a chap and we became room mates. This was in Jaunary | think this year, One Sunday while out sleigh riding, I told him about my successful failure of the train rob bery at Cuba Junction. He satu he was acquainted with a young fellow named Tom Rape. who used to run as express messenger on the same road. Wethen talked the matter over, and thought he might get} Rape to help us, so we hunted him up, and by carefully worded ques- | tions, by my partner, found out con siderable about the express business. He then in a joking way hinted to Rape if he would like to take a hand and we would hold up the company, but Rape was not that kind ot a man and had no such in- clination, although he did not seem very friendly tothe express company My partner and I then left there and went dow? to Cincinnati, and early in the spring drifted back to St. Louis. PLANNING THE RECENT RAID. I still had the express business in my head, although my partner was not yery sanguine of success. We had found out trom Rape by differ- ent talks we had with him that a man named Barret, about rates for 100 pounds between certain points, and got back a reply referring me to wr.te to Mr. Damsell at St. Louis, who would give me information. We then had J. R. Barrett’s signature and the style of his letter heads. We then put in Sunday in getting type and trying our hand at printing, and finally, after weeks of patient labor, we got a pretty fair imitation of Barrett's letter heading, but the type on the We also W. H. Damsel, and was also to have one of | them ready so in case the messenger |} would say why don’t you see Mr. | Damsel, we were going to have a envelope was too small. printed some cards ot Mr. + one ot his cards instructing the mes- senger to pass the bearer as it was all mght. Barrett’s handwriting is who lives at} Springfield, Mo., was a kind of boss | over the express messengers on the | road, so I wrote Barrett an inquiry every atternoon and a half of each} line trom Damsel on the back of | and put in with them the remaining copies of the letters we had practiced on, and checked the package in the St. Louis Union Depot under the } initials of J M. Nowif you wanta good little gun and billy go and get out the packaye checked to J. M. in the Union Depot Oct. 25; there are probably seventy five or eighty cents charges on it by this time, but } the gun alone is worth $10. Also f you want a good dounie barrel shotgun, muzzle loader, go along the bank of the Missouri river, on the north side, about a mile below St. Charles bridge, and about twenty feet along the bank just east ot that last dike that runs out in the river, and you will find ina little guily a shotgun 2nd musket. Be caretul, I lett them both loaded with buckshot and caps on the tubes. They were laying wrapped in a piece of oil cloth and some weeds thrown ove: | them. Also down on the river, just below the guns, I teft my skiff and a lot of stuff, coffee pot, skillet and particularly concealed just west of | the skiff you will find a box ot grub, cottee, bacon, sugar, etc. I came down the river in the skiff Tuesday night, October 26—27, from a point opposite Labadie. It 1s a run of thirty-five or thirty-six miles, They should all be there, unless some one tound them before you get there. A DEFENSE OF THE MESSENGER. | Now, one word as to Farthingham, | Ithink he is a brave and_ sensible man. He was taken completely unawares. He was just telling me \ to lay some package over in the | Arkansas run, when suddenly I grabbed him by the back of the neck with one hand, and his Co!t’s re- volver, No. 35, which, by the way, I find to be a darned good gun, with the other, I threw his gun out of his reach and at the same time I threw | him tothe Hoor. He struggled as hard as he could to get up. Even| while he must have felt that I was stronger and heavier than him, and he didn’t stop until he seen the muzzle of a Smith & Wessen No. 38 gun looking him in the face, and he then did what I told him to do, and I think Professor John L. Sulli- van would haye done the same. 1 had him down in such a position that ! I could haye beat him into submis- | | sion with the butt end of my gun | even had I not been disposed to shoot him. | how the whole business was done. Of course I have not gone into the | little details such as getting Farthing ham’s name from that honest Hiber- | nian porter by telling him that I had | found a pocketbook with a letter in \it addressed to some man named Parks. All the httle details need not be published. Enough I think has been shown up in this to clear | teartuily hard to imitate, and his dear sirs and that infernal } that he every afternoon betore I got it down, so I thought it would do. We then wrote out several letters of the style of the kind presented to Farthing- ham, and selected two of the best for the work, I also had a line in lead pencil on the back of one of Damsel’s cards instructing him to let the bearer mde to Pierce City. The envelope handed Fartheingham was addressed to John Bronson,St. Louis Mo , and contained two letters. PROVING UP THE CASE. Now, to prove up these facts, my partner, who was riding in the front seat of the smoking car at Kirkwood and got on the front of the express car and plugged the bell cord, so in case of my struggling with Farthing ham he should get a held of the bell cord and stop the train, for we did not intend to kill the messenger. His nerve all lett him when the | Jim Cummings that you shall have moment came and he backed out | the papers inside ot the next 50 days. completely, and 1 took his gun—a | Also if there was a bag of gold left | turned from abroad tells a very amus- Smith & Wesson, No. 42—and billy, | 7 the car that night, you can thank ing story of how a lady of the Amer- up any suspicion that nnght have | tallen upon Farthingham. makes took weeks more of practice | warninG AGAINST MORE KOBBERIES. | Now one word tor Mr. Damsel. | Look out for Cuba Junction, and express ever put off anything there, two good men, one though I mean, can do you up sure at that point it the car door 1s opened. I have also a lot of your correspondence that 1s no use to me, and there are seme valuable papers belonging to some firm in Ninonk, IIl., Jenkins, Dunn | Dunn & Co. consigned to Mrs. A. | F. Benson, Springfield, Mo. What | shall I do with them, I teel under |deep obligations to you tor your handsome remittance of Monday | and got off there and run to the head ; night, Oct. 25, $53,000, that any- i {thing I could do with this lot ot papers, I would do most gladly. It lis slightly inconvenient for me to ‘leave them at your Broadway and | Olive street office at present, but | you can rest assured on the word of These facts I think will show | better be caretul and not let the night ! ARE YOU THINKING OF BUYING A HAT OR CAP SHORTLY. IF SO DON’T FAIL TO EXAMINE OUR STOCK AND PRICES. ALL OUR HATS ARE BOUGHT IN CASE LOTS DIRECT FROM MANUFACTURERS AND WE CAN SAVE YOU AT LEAST 25 per cent ON EVERY GRADE. WOOL HATS, 50c, 75c and $1.00 Reduced ffom 75c,$1 & $1.25 WE HANE A LINE OF GENUINE FUR HATS AT $1.65 Former price $2 25. Have best line STIFF HATS in city and will guarantee them the very latest style. Our line of FUR CAPS is very large ranging in price trom $1 25 to $3 00. MEN’S CLOTH CAPS 25c UP. Be sure to see these lines before buy- ing and we guarantee it will save you money. AMERICAN CLOTHING HOUSE. Farthingham for that, for I said to {ican legation in Paris paid her re-| him when I had him tied, damn you, |spects to ‘‘Ouida.’’ Mrs. Bigelow I know there is some gold on board | was in Florence. She desired to see to-night, where 1s it, tell me or I |**Ouida.”” With Mrs. Bigelow to will just close those two cyes of |desire to do a thing is but one step vours, and he said he did not think /from doingit. She. therefore, drove; there was a bit ot gold on board it |out to ‘‘Ouida’s’’ and presented her was all silyer, so you can thank him jselt in her usual emphatic way at for saving that much. ithe door. She was shown into a re- jception room, and in a very loud | voice Said tothe valet: **Would you tell Mlle. de la Ramee that Mrs. | | John Bigelow of New York would hke to speak with her ?’’ Hardly had the message been giv-| en when a voice from the next room was heard in tones equally loud to reply: ‘Tell Mrs. John Bigelow of |New York that I don’c want to see lher or any other Amerman! I don’t like them.”’ Mrs. Bigelow rose and answered the invisable lady ot the house with: “You ought to be ashamed of your- self. We're the only fools that read your nasty books, anyway.’’ In another moment the two well matched women were face to face; and within half an hour the novelist was urging her American caller to become her guest. “Do come and stay a month with me,”’ she urged ‘‘I should so en- joy studymng your character.”’” *“<*«Twould do you good,’’ was Mrs. Bigelow’s quick response; **you don’t seem to have known anv decent women.”’ A GENEROUS OFFER. Now, Mr. Editor, publish this and by doing so you will lift a weight off my mind for causing a blight on Fotheringham’s character. It you don’t care to publish it free, charge it up to Jim Cummings and publish the amount of your charge at the bottom of the column and I will see it settled within 60 days. Tenclose you a wrapping around two of the money packages taken, one 30000 package from the Conti- nental Bank of St. Louis to the American National Bank, Kansas City, and one 12000 from the Mer-| chant National Bank St. Louis to the} Merchants Bank Ft. Smith, Ark., so you will have no doubt as to the identity of the writer. 1f you see Fartheringham tell him I had it tor him tor beating me out of that bag ot gold when I read the newspapers, but I have his Colts 36 and it is a dandy true shooting gun we will call itsquare. Well, I guess I had better close up this long rigmarole, but 1 hope in the future, Mr. Editor. you will not do a person the injustice you done Fatheringham y in your issue ot October 27 until you English Spavin Liniment removes have convincing proot instead of all hard, soft, or calloused lumps and mere suspicion. Remember the old| blemishes from horses, Blood Spavin, adage, ‘‘Honi soit qui maly pense.’”|Curbs, Splints, Sweeney. Stifies, Yours truly, Sprains, Sore and Swollen Throat, Jus Cummings. | Coughs. etc. Save $50 by use of one SODA Best in the World. Trustee’s Sale. Whereas William R. Marshali (who declared himself a widower), and who has been dead tor more than g months, by his deed ot trust, dated March 27th, 1883, and recorded in the Recorder's office within and tor Bates county, Mis- souri, in book No 32, page 17, conveyed to the undersigned trustee the following described real estate, lying and being situate in the county ot Bates and State of Missourl, to-wit: The southwest quarter of the south- west quarter, of section twenty-three (23), township forty-two (42), of range thirty-two Gs. containing forty acres, more or less; which conveyance was made in trust to secure the payment of one ceartain note, tully descrined in said deed of trust; and whereas. default has been made in the payment ot the prin- ciple of said note, and the annual inter- eat thereon accrued, now long past due and unpaid Now, therefore, at the re- quest ot the legal holder of said note, and pursuantto ths conditions of said deed ot trust, I will proceed to sell the above described premises at public ven- due, to the highest bidder, tor cash, at the east front door ot the court house, ir. . bottle. Warranted by W. J. Lans- pad ge Fo ssuerigg county of Bates anc ae ne state issouri, on A Tigress in her Snuggery. Druggist, Butler. 3tty | Thursday, December 2d, 1886, |down, i Boston Home Journal. i petween the hoursof 9 o'clock in the A Boston lady who has just re- pe paint med 5 o’clock in the afternoon, of that day, for the purpose ot satisfying. said debt,‘interest and costs. Pig Du **to00 Doses One Dollar” is true only ot Heod’s lia, and it is a unan- gwerable argument as to strength and e- conomy-