Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-06-26
mother Attempt 10 Destroy Life on the
Michigan Southern Ratlroad-Arrest
of the villains.

Two men named Carl Sleder and Henry
Eggers, were detected, day before yesterday,
In diabolical attempt to destroy passenger
train on the Michigan Southern Railroad,
placing distinctions on the track. The To-
cality of the crime was in the pine woods,
between Ainsworth and Pine Station, and
near the same place where, it will be remem.
bered, similar distractions were placed on
the same road about the first Of May last
Though little has been said since the diaboli-
cal attempt alluded to, yet the Railroad Com
pany, through the medium Of Pinkerton g.
Co.'s Northwestern Police Agency, have kept
watch over the road in that region ever since.
4 Under the Immediate superintendent of
ALLEN Pinkerton, ESQ., arrangements were
made, shanty was erected In the woods near
the field of operations, and two of his en-
ployees were dispatched thither to take up
heir abode and keep wide awake. For eight
weeks past, they have been residents of the
pine regions, and on Friday last they saw two
men come out upon the track, and dispose
lfbree ties, some twenty or thirty feet apart,
cross the rails. The steamboat express train
fIom Toledo, due in this city at quarter
past eleven, p NJ, was then approaching that
mint, and the villains had selected, with
Dndish ingenuity, point just ioest of a
c4rve, for placing the distractions, lest the
shgineer might be able to see them in season
| q check the train and escape the threatened
d<nger and death. They had just finished
t6oT work, when the thusder of the APP
Lp.Qoching train was heard, and they fed to
4l<5Wpods one of the detectives meanwhile
1911 east to signal the train. But the
IN 1as too brief, and though the brakes
- applied and the engine reversed, vet
Q8 was the speed and weight Of the train
kSt the ties were caught successfully one
ter apother Under the pilot, brought side by
de against the wheels, held firmly there
I'D swept along seven hundred yards by &C
lal measurement, acting as break, and the
les showing marks of the service they per
brmed, being worn in grooves, an inch il
epth. Altogether it was 4 most extraordi
larry escape from terrible wreck, and tn,
{7acrifce of human life.
Intelligence having been forwarded to Thu
city, Mr.. Pinkerton repaired to the infected
district, taking with him two additional men
<as their services might be needed in sur
pounding thicket, and nabbing the culprit
when they should break cover. The sheriff
fof Lake county, Mr.. Bunnel, and Mr.. r
Eddy, Of Crown Point, were summoned, and
on Monday were upon the ground. within
accessible distance. Mr.. Pinkerton then com
menced operations, the two-fold purpose be-
ing not to frighten away one Of the guilty
parties IN anesting the other, and to so effec'
It as tha5 the other residents of the settle.
ment should be none the wiser; in word
to do everything "decently and in order"
To rarrate the operations which resulted
in the capture of both the parties, would re.
quire greater space than we can spare. SUI.
fee it TO say that both were captured, and
taken before Justice Saunders, Of Lake Sta
ton, who committed them in default of bail
in $1,000 each, to the Jail at Crown Point
It may be added that Egger's hostility to
the road was in consequence of hunting
dog belonging to him, having been killed by
passing train, and remuneration for which
he had never demanded Chicago Times.