Wichita, Kan., June 30. —The highway
man who attempted to rob the Santa be
passenger train at Wharton yesterday, and
who was captured by Conductor Gleason
and (nit in jail here, is a boy only sixteen
years old. He told the sheriff last bight
that he met a gang of four men at Ten
.Mile Flats, in tiie Chickasaw nation, one
day and they told him of a scheme to rob
the Santa Fe train, and told him that be
had to help or pay the penalty of death.
They told him he must go on the Santa Fe
train oil June 30th, and when it approached
Black Bear creek he must cover the con
duet or and stop the train, and that they
would do the rest. All this work was im
posed on him under “bullet orders," as he
calls i, and lie was afraid to disobey. He
had nlade a mistake of one day in cti frying
out his orders. He thought yesterday was
the 30th and carried out his part of the
programme. He said the leader of the
gang, under whose orders lie was working,
was Bill Dalton. Two of the others were
Bill Anderson and Arthur Gage, while the
fourth man was a native of Fort Gibson,
whose name he did not know. If his story
is Into lhe other robbers are due at Black
Bear creek today and may be caught. Sev
eral officers are on their way to the scene.
