Clark, stating that the superintendent
had just learned from Adams that the
passenger train on the Lexington
branch was to be held up and robbed
that night at a point nine miles north
of Sedalia, and instructing me to take
immediate steps to protect the train
and prevent the robbery. The super
intendent placed W. W. Kay, his spe
cial agent, at my disposal, and two
moro agents, Detective Frank Barnett
and another, who joined me at Inde
pendence. The fifth member of the
party was Joseph S. Manning, one of
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my own staff, from the St. Louis of
fice.
On consulting the official time card
of the Missouri Pacific road I found
that, in order to protect the Lexington
branch train against the contemplated
robbery, it would be necessary to
leave St. Louis that morning, in order
to board the endangered train at Inde
pendence Junction the same evening,
as that traiu was due to leave Kansas
City on its eastward trip before the
train from St. Louis arrived there. I
also found that if both trains were on
time I would have three minutes at
Independence to make connections.
This was accomplished.
I told the conductor in charge of the
Lexington branch train at Independ
ence of the instructions which I had
received from Superintendent Clark,
and instructed him that, when the
train was flagged and stopped, he
should pay no attention to the parties
who had signaled her, but was to de
vote his whole time to keeping his
passengers quiet in their seats and, in
particular, that he should see that
none of them raised a window or put
his head out. I then went over to the
engineer and told him what was liable
to happen.
