Sept. 22, 1906.] 
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THE “QUAIL HUNTER." 
“ ‘Chalky’ Foote is dead.” 
This was the telegram received from Spring- 
field, Ill., by E. J. Sanford, superintendent of the 
Union Depot. It brings up a train of recollec¬ 
tions of the days when Jack Kennedy, “quail 
hunter,” was holding up a train every week or 
two in Jackson county. Kennedy is in the peni¬ 
tentiary now, but it took hard work to put him 
there. 
“Chalky” Foote was a locomotive engineer. 
He had another name, “Leroy,” but his friends 
knew him as “Chalky.” There was something 
wrong with one of his feet and he limped. He 
was engineer of passenger engine No. 217 on 
the Chicago and Alton Railway. This engine 
pulled the fast train which left the Union Depot 
at 8:50 o’clock at night. Three times, in 1897, 
while “Chalky” Foote was in the cab of his en¬ 
gine, it was flagged to a standstill in Blue Cut, 
near Glendale, this county. Each time, Jack 
Kennedy, who was an engineer himself, climbed 
aboard the cab and exclaimed in a friendly way: 
“Hello, ‘Chalky,’ I’ll run her,” and Kennedy 
took the throttle, the express car was cut loose, 
pulled away from the train, and stopped again 
in a secluded spot where the engine was un¬ 
coupled and sent up the track. Then Kennedy 
blew open the safe and looted it. 
It was Kennedy’s familiarity with “Chalky” 
Foote that first caused his identification. It led 
the detectives to believe the leader of the bandits 
was a railroad man. This pointed to other clues 
and finally Kennedy was caught “with the 
goods.” He was tried and acquitted. Soon 
thereafter he held up the same engineer, engine 
and express messenger in the same spot. 
Kennedy was known in those days as “The 
Quail Hunter.” One evening a horse stumbled 
at Seventeenth and Penn streets and fell. Its 
rider was pitched forward upon the pavement 
and stunned. He was carried into a grocery 
store and before he revived a shotgun and red 
lantern were found under his coat. A mask and 
dynamite cartridges were in his pocket. He was 
equipped splendidly to hold up a train. He was 
taken to police headquarters. It was Kennedy. 
Asked where he was going, he replied: 
“I was going quail hunting.” 
From that time he was the “Quail Hunter.” 
It developed later that he was going to Muncie, 
Kan., to hold up a Union Pacific train. That 
was his last trip. He was sent to the peni¬ 
tentiary shortly afterward.—Kansas City Star. 
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