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St. Louis, Mo.,
Nov. 16. – The Montana train robber suspect has acknowledged that
he is Ben Kilpatrick, a brother of Dan Kilpatrick. Both are said to
have been members of the gang of train robbers, led by “Bill”
Carver, who was killed last spring. He admitted that he was reared
near Paint Rock, Texas.
Sheriff Crawford
of Chouteau county, Montana, has arrived here to see the prisoner.
The sheriff and County Attorney Pray of Chouteau country, were on
their way here with requisition papers when a telegram reached them
at St. Paul that the prisoner was to be tried in St. Louis. Mr. Pray
returned to Montana and Sheriff Crawford came on to St. Louis,
unofficially, to get a look at one of the men he had chased so hard
last summer.
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St. Louis, Mo.,
Nov. 16. – Ben Kilpatrick, indicted by the federal grand jury as
“John Arnold,” alias Harry Longbaugh, alias Harvey Logan, the
supposed Montana train robber, was arraigned for a second time
before Judge Adams in the United States district court today. At his
first arraignment Thursday the train robber suspect declined to
plead to the charges against him of having and passing money not
legal tender. Today, however, he pleaded not guilty and when Judge
Adams asked the prisoner if he wished the court to appoint counsel
for him, Kilpatrick answered that he did not.
“I will hire a
lawyer myself,” he said.
The
Bullion woman also pleased not guilty, but said she had not money to
employ counsel and wished the court to appoint an attorney to defend
her. Judge Adams designated Judge Thomas P. Bashaw as her counsel.
The case was set for trial on December 12th. |
