Iowa
Old Press
Des Moines Daily News
Des Moines, Polk co. Iowa
Thursday Evening, October 4, 1900
ADMITTED TO THE BAR
Twenty-Six Law Students Pass Examination Before Supreme Court
The oral and written examination of the law class before the
Supreme Court and the examining committee was concluded last
night. Out of a class of forty, twenty-six succeeded in passing
the examination. Those who were granted certificates of admission
to the bar were:
Raymond B. Alberson, Hubert A. Abernethy, Stowell C. Avery, W. M.
Blough, John P. DeNeui, E. G. Day, Thomas A. Goodson, R. A.
Griffin, Fritz B. Hinze, Hamilton M. Higday, Lewis B. Jackson,
Matt. M. Joyce, R. F. Klatt, C. L. Otto Knopp, William T. Kidd,
E. V. Lyngby, E. M. S. McLaughlin, Geo. D. Muskaker, Edward C.
Mulvaney, John Ott, August Oberschmidt, Ralph O. Stephenson, Wirt
Springer, Henry R. Vasey, Thomas Y. Wickham, Jr., William A.
Westfall.
[transcribed by K.C., December 2007
Iowa State Bystander
Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa
Friday, October 5, 1900
TRAIN ROBBER KILLED.
Messenger Baxter Shoots One and His Partner Skips
Council Bluffs, Oct. 4.-Lying at the morgue in this city, with a
bullet through his heart, is a man, powerfully built, black hair,
mustache, about 6 feet tall, aged apparently 45 years. He was one
of two men who held up the Kansas City passenger train on the
Burlington road, three miles south of this city, at midnight.
Express Messenger Charles Baxter killed him.
Two men boarded the train at the Union Pacific transfer station
and climbed over the tender just as the train was crossing the
Mosquito creek bridge. Engineer Donnelly and Frank Holman,
fireman, who were in charge of the engine, were ordered to slow
up as soon as the train had crossed the bridge. While the now
dead man held a revolver on the engine crew his companion went
back and cut off the baggage and mail cars, leaving the day
coaches and sleepers standing on the main line.
Acting under orders, the engineer pulled the train half a mile
down the track, where a stop was made. Here the robbers
approached the express car and ordered Messenger Baxter to open
the door. He refused to do so. Under compulsion, Engineer
Donnelly attached a stick of dynamite to the side of the door and
blew it open.
In the meantime, Messenger Baxter seized his guns and escaped
from the door on the opposite side of the car. As soon as the
door was opened, one of the robbers entered the car, while his
companion marched the engineer and fireman back to the engine.
Baxter crept around in front of the engine, and seeing one of the
robbers keeping guard over the engine crew, fired the shot,
killing him instantly.
As soon as the shot was heard, the robber in the car jumped to
the ground and fled through a cornfield. The dead man was picked
up, placed on board and the train was backed into the city. The
body was searched but nothing could be found on it by which it
could be identified. It was dressed in a neat suit of black
clothes, over which overalls and jumpers had been drawn. In the
pockets were found about $15 in money and a watch and chain.
The door of the express car was badly shattered by the explosion
of dynamite. The robber inside the car was preparing to blow the
safe at the time his companion was killed. He ceased operations
at once, and no damage was done to the contents of the car, nor
was anything taken.
Omaha. Oct. 5.-The only development in the Kansas City train
robbery is the identification of the dead robber as a man who
worked for a short time in the barber shop of Fritz Bernhardt in
Council Bluffs. Little can be learned of him. A posse is still
pursuing the robber's companion. A man who gave the name of D. E.
Knight was arrested yesterday afternoon on suspicion of being the
accomplice of the man who was killed in the holdup.
[transcribed by L.D., November 2014]