St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 8, 1901

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ey re » tt Pyne “sla, ot © * Le ot : s *"' surprise which the man showed the attorney en the rooni was to cénvirice me, and then the at- y himself was so sure of his man.”’ gang ef horse thieves of which Long- h was a member back in 1887 had its near Sundance, Wyo. It carried on tions qver half a dozen states and a long time officers of the law were unable to t a trace of the thieves, ex- t when they madé a raid. ' seemed to leave almost_no traces be- them except empty stalls. ly, however, Sheriff James Swisher undance: found the headquarters of the es in a dugout near Sundance. organized a posse and surrounded the ing u the place when the es were all inside, he succeeded in get- into the place without their know- found them sitting at one side of the while all their weapons lay piled on in the center. . between the table and the men them with his pistols, warning ‘them not to make a move toward their pis- Bill Minor of the gang did not heed the Warning. He start toward the table and ore shot him through the heart. vor fell backward and Swisher then turned his pistol on Longbaugh. e other members of the posse came to his assistance and all the gang were placed under arrest. The St. Louisan who was then the prose- cuting attorney conducted the trial of the thieves and convicted them. Longbaugh was sentenced to serve if months in the Wyoming penitentiary. He Nee the term, securing his release in At 8 pa Th from e ad Sixty-two hours uhder arrest, 24 hours In the “sweat” box and nine of these at one sitting, subject to cross questioning by Chief of Detectives Desmond, conceded to most remarkable man in America f extracting confessions from criminais; than 100 words from the prisoner, and of.those revealing any information, is record made by the train robber sus- eye who was arrested Tuesday night and | is vee by the pdlice to be Harry ugh. t a record unpar&lieled in the history > Ae police department here, and Thurs- *®night’s proceedings eclipsed any ’ ever attempted. ursday night Longbaugh is prison cell in the Four nt and was conducted to the te ce of Chief Desmond. o'clock Friday morning when the finished with him he led to h urs Long passee “sweat’’ box, su & series of questions ptt by Chie '“) DO NOT GET ENOUGH TO EAT i. »'’ was the longest sentence Long- h.uttered duri the nine hours, and Was the only statement he made that information that Chief D ond hat could rely on. hief of Detectives Desmond's Ae for s volunteer information re- criminal careers has attracted atl ion everyw . He never threatens alt 4h nmve-tae nor a " a nts t the things, trivial in| h pave a way for more m some time, but ie brrarred ai- | eae } | will benefit him ge | for’ the telegraph and the telephone: will demonstrate the lie, and make it all the harder for him. Then usually begins the direct examina-~- | tion. Most always the prisoner is ready and willing to talk. But if he does not talk Desmond does not become angry nor does He exhibit any impatience. Hie asks hundreds of questions and gets some an- swers. When he sees his prisoner has been questioned enough, and does not exhibit any signs of “talking right,’’ as the chief terms it, an officer is called and the prison- er is conducted back to his cell, and is informed that when he is ready to talk right, the chief will give him ay audience. Frequently the prisoner will send for the chief and announces his readiness to talk. Then matters are easily adjusted, and the truth often obtained. With Longbaugh it has been altrerent. Chief Desmond has applied his usual tactics with him. He will obey all of the chief’s commands about tilting his chair, etc. He will walk around at the chief's request and will remove ‘hts hat, wash his hands and face, and Friday morning he éven sub- mitted to having his hair shampooed, re vealing the fact. that the hair had been dyed. He uttered no word of protest, nor would he reply to.any questions, Made No Reply ~-. to Questions. Tuesday hight it dacked half. an hour un- til midnight when Dongbaugh was take before Acting Night Ciilef Boyd. He said that his name was Arnold, and he _ spelled the word out+for-the chief. For half an hour he was -questioned,. but he: sat silent, looking straight before him,'and made no reply whatever to questions. Wednesday morning he was removed from his cell to Chief Desmond’s office. Here Chief Desmond enacted his usual role but Arnold replied only in monosyliables, and frequently not in these As for m a connect statement, nothin like. this was even approached, although he-was in the chief's presence until 12:30 o’clock in pe atterncen. a age of git hours. at afternoon he was in the 's 5- to from 2 o'clock ‘until 6 o'c . ‘ r hours. At this oe Te he wa ‘communicative d -toid the ciief se things, which smond promptly brand hs m Ais a stions, he said that he oney taken from him in ~@ eens a= ‘eh nesday n t Longba taken before the ohief ahd | og ‘Sweat box’’ from’‘s p. m. until’ midnight. He maintained his usual composure, scarce- ly spoke a dozen times, and’ never more than three or four words at a time. Thursday he was taken upstairs at the usual hour, 9:30 o'clock. For two hqurs hé was interrogated, but he answered not a single question.. .He even. deciined to state how he slept. In the afternoon Chief ‘Desmond ‘took an- other hour at him, from 3 to 4 o'clock, but without result. Record-Breaking | “Sweat” Begins Then at 8 o'clock Thursday night began the record-breaking ‘‘sweat.’’. Although Longbaugh is reckoned as the most dan- gerous prisoner ever held at the Four Courts, and a half dozen detectives accom- pany him everywhere he goes, Chief Des- mond had him escorted into his office and all of the detectives were dismissed. All night long the chief and his prisoner sat facing each other. ‘Desmond never. once wearied of his task, and the prisoner stood the ordeal from which not one man in many thousand could have withstood. Ev- ery sacrifice that the chief has acquired in his 2% years’ dealings with criminals was brought into’ play. ‘The remarkable prisoner, who is not yet 36 years of age, proved that a man could not be made to talk against his will. He paid respectful attention to ail the queries put to him, but he answered few interrogatories and then only at such times as he chose. He .did not resent-any of the chief's Spyettans nor implications, but he refrained from gaying anything that per- tained to himself. ' Once he surprised the chief by volunteer- ing a statement. Kt was: : “I do not get enough to eat here.’’ ‘Desmond thought this an opening that might lead to a conversation, and he asked him what > aH to eat, but the prison- er was silent. Not another word would he utter, and the chief ordered him re- turned to his cell at 6 o'clock Friday morn- nz. Becmene was not discouraged wvén at this and he was at his desk promptly at 10 o'clock Friday morning, and the first order issued by Chief Desmond was that the prisoner be brought to his office. Long- hbaugh walked in handcuffed, erect, and sullen. His indomitable spirit is not by any means broken. He looked neither to the right nor the left, nor at any one. He took his place in the chair alongside Des- mond’s desk and maintaimed that silence and air that has éharacterized him as the most remarkable Four Courts’ prisoner. COLD TO FOLLOW WARMTH Dr. Hyatt Predicts Fair Weather Sat-, urday, but Not So Tonight. The weather will be warmer Friday night but colder Saturday. So said Dr. Hyatt Friday morning, add- ing that while the weather Friday night and Saturday would probably be fair, it might also be threat- ening and unsettled Friday night. It was five degrees | colder, according to, the doctor's ther- mometer at 7 o'clock Friday morning than at the corresponding hour Thursday, the temperature being 4 During the forenoon Friday, however, the Weather became noticeably warmer, the thermometer registering 59 at 12:30 o'clock, Throughout the country the weather is ally fair Friday, though there is a1 % lake al No Pigs BAe ‘ee ; » * : - “yes 3 aX >» ee em oA Rs Pee oe ae Pie Rag OR et Paha aay wel! rr n ~ ~ o™ ’ Bx 2. * LS > ¥ COV 5 ste “BUTCH” A WHOLE STATE. INA MAN HUNT CASSIDY, One of Longbaugh’s Partners in the Great Northern Train Robbery, Who Is Known: to Have Been in St. Louis Within the Past Week. RTL | Pursuit of the Escaped Kan- sas’Prison Convicts: TWENTY-SIX ARE AT” LARGE SEILLFULY PLANNED MUTINY vo. ‘AD LEAVENWORTH. LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Nov. 8.—Forty mounted guards are beating the coun- try for five miles around the federal penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth today in search of the 26 convicts who succeeded in escaping from the guards late yesterday. The country is wild and rough and affords ample oppertunity for escape, and, as all of the convicts are desperate men. and armed, conflicts. will doubtless result before they are captured. A repott that four of the convicts had been recaptured today proves to be untrue. The whole state is preparing to assist in the capture. -The net known result of the mutiny and the following fight with the gua was one convict killed and four guards shot or otherwise hurt, but it is believed thut many of the fleeing convicts - received wounds, however serious, from the bullets sent after them by pursuing guards. The dead; : Quinn Fort, a desperate criminal from the Indian Territory, who is believed to have been the ringleader of the outbreak. W ounded: Joseph B. Waldrup, prison guard, shot In forehead and breast; condition still critical. Arthur. Trelford, Cae of the guard, t in leg; not serious. “ EK, Burrows, guard; shot in neck; slight. Andrew Leonard, guard; leg broken. It develops that the mutiny was hatched several months ago, but that the men had never found a favorable opportunity to carry it into effect until yesterday. he eneral plan was not new, but it proved ef- ectly. because of the limited number of guards. As the better behaved prisoners ere used-in the outside work, the conspira- was hatched among the men in the in- se side gangs. Inside Guards Were Unarmed. The convicts chose the most favorable moment of the day, while many of the guards jacting as foremen of construction of the new ceil house were unarmed. Since last night the old prison has pre- sented an air of activity that it has not known for years. As soon as the alarm was given, guards were formed in march- ing order and mounted men, armed to the teeth, were drawn up in front of the main entrance. Most of the ards were old plainamen and the diversion of hunting down criminals stirred their blood as nothing else could have done. The escap- ing convicts were counted the most desper- ate criminals in: the Southwest and the guards started out on their hunt in full realizatiom of this fact. The scené ef mutiny, however, being some distance from the prison proper, the con- victs had secured a good start and aided by the rough, wood country, they had, before darkness fell, genes a good gap be- tween themselves and their pursuers. The guards at best could make but a desultory attempt at pursuit and were compelled to await daylight to take up the search. The aiarm was sent in all directions, th officiais at Kansas City, Atchison, 8t. voor Topeka and Leavenworth being ask to keep their police on the lookout of the cities named ht in. each patrolled the out- detectives and-all n police an skirts. Country People Terror-Stricken. During the night reports came in from all directions of thefts of horses and ve- ‘ t ou their fs e terror-stricken and° r houses. oriey and early this meres on in- number of. guards, well armed and mounted, has started out from the pen- tentiary, today was spent in as excit- ng a man hunt, perhaps, ‘has been ex- rienc n this part of the country since is bel rea that..all. theeonvicts will " ; whi ; uth Me my if e: : we Bu oP ae > nee Pe 2 sp y a3 + : 2 P Karbe BB a's * +s wah b ye ? ae OE - . a % & aay ~~ 7 SN ' ; Succeeds in Racing | $4,000 ON HORSES GERMS NOI “ . Pw St CORONER TO CONTINUE ——— Chemist Snodgras’ Does Not End Inquiry. ite . Y ? ae ’ ' aS >. : + M . - #3 ; Ve ch ae +e. Special Committee of | Got Into C?ty’s Antitoxin. The report of C. A. Snodgras of the city chemists’ department to Dr. M, C. Stark=- loff, health commissioner, on the diphtheria antitoxin, which is held sible for 13 deaths due to lockjaw, simp establishes that the serum furnished by the city contained no tetanus germs. oy Nae “> - to t ide No attempt was made by Mr. Sn oe tte to dscertain whether the antitoxin was oF a poisonous nature. This feature of the inquiry, Dr. Ravold says, will be left to committee of bacteriologists — pointed by Coroner Funkhauser. special ff - ; e The fact that the diffusion of germs the point of infection rarely ports the conclusion that the duced by the bacilli caused loonie at as i ae “I contended all along,” said Dr. Ravold ri to the Post-Dispatch,- tained no germs. “It was thought possible may have been blown by the bottles containing the an believed that the g@ ms r “that the that the germs alr nto the titoxin. into the blood of the horse, if the antitoxin ‘The question now | polsenous what cau the poison. ‘Tests of the serum were pigs before it was dietribuied. “Now, if there were mass of the serum, then it not have been detected in Test Might Not Have Told, “Again, it may have gotten Into bottles containing the serum, and not in others. would not have required a have so discovered in making Dr. 8 guinea pig. , e request o were any tetanus If there were toxins present 1% ¥ oF é ra ag : ¥ % o- 1 flag f e : ~ | : 4,2 ‘ i . ‘ P be + R ‘" we ~ . c iad a wy Ld he eo re a oa une fd Oe Ye - ' 2 « * ry ¢ | & 4 \ . & po h Bee . t - , sae fe Poe er nw 2% ig “iy ae Be tay ¥ ¥ 5 ¥ ie aeons | 72 ‘al , Me a ges nn apr GA F “ ‘4 ’ a ‘The req f tarklog# wes See’ ) examination to énceenae ere not as to whether Dr. R. 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