[3] It was decided that the train to watch was the night train from St. Louis to Memphis, which frequently carried considerable amounts of money from the Federal Reserve Bank, sent south to move the cotton crop.
[3] Early on November 3, 1922, Kennedy and his companion Harvey Logan, a former railroad employee, stopped a southbound passenger train of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway.
The train, traveling from St. Louis to Memphis, was forced to halt at a station 7½ miles north of Wittenberg just outside the small community of Seventy-Six, Missouri.
The engineer and fireman were ordered off the locomotive and Kennedy took the two cars down the track several miles.
[3] Their automobile was nearby, and concealed in the brush along the right of way were six postal inspectors, three railroad special agents and two deputy sheriffs.