Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-28
A MURDER
Train Wreckers and Murderers W,lO
Are UnknOwn.. -Stranus Experience
Of a Locomotive E~nglnssr--
Mysterious WARNINGS With
Prevent Two Horrible
Accidents.
Special Cor. Cincinnati E1ouirer.I

VIZ ARA 1AhNN Il Nao aAAOhGa ~
Captain Jim Laws, the commander {
the train, to enjoy a seat on the loco
motive beside Engineer Jake Sacks
The day was beautiful, the trac.
smooth, the train was the fast mai
and as we bounded across stretches o
prairie, over high bridges and through
shady groves, which dot this beauti
full region like the Lords orchards Sc
in sunny places, making background
for the beautiful farm houses. l fel
an ease and quiet which was so much
in contrast with my hurried life that
it seemed more like reading n oil
Marvel's imaginative descriptions thar
a real view Of prairie landscape anG
summer life. The engineer sat il
front of me, smoking his pipe, occa-
sionally sounding the whistle or APP.
plying the air-brakes when we came
threateningly neal the lazy cattle,
which were often on the roadway
crossings. We had travelled nearly
half way across Illinois when Sacks
turned and said; There is where
THEY KILLED MILO AMEs,
or rather where he wa found dead on
the engine, and, by the way, this is
No. "a, the engine on which he was
killed. You see that piece of wood
set in there pointing to the side of
the window in the cab)P Well, that
where the bullet lodged that passed
through him. The other bullet, the
one that struck his watch aud glanced
off, struck that sash up there back OF
the steam-gauge."
WAS he the engineer who was
killed by the train-robbers? p | asked.
Yes. he was the one, Did you
know the details? Well, / suppose
not, for the detectives didn't want it
all told, because they seemed afraid
that fit was printed
THE MURDERERs
would read it in the papers and know
that the bloody act had been dis.
covered, just as though they would
not suspect hat the express messen-
ger and those who were not killed on
the train did not know it. Well, |
came out on this engine the next
morning from Terre Haute, and was
with the officers and detectives, and
heard and saw all that they ever knew
about it. This is the water tank
where the train had stopped, and as
soon as We pull out | will tell you all
about it,"
| looked up at the lake made by the
embankment-the lonely tank aud
pump-hOuse in the dark, green woods
and thought that its very lonesome.
ness would at night suggest the rsb-
berry Of a train. When the train
moved on the engineer resumed his
seat and his story.
Milo was pulling No. 5, which
left st. Louis at 6.45 in the evening
and reached here just about midnight.
He stopped as usual, the fireman be-
ing on the tender. and had pulled
down the pipe and was standing on it.
The express messenger had opened
he door Of his car and was looking
Jut on the SIDE opposite that on which
TIE ROBBERS
had been seereied in the weeds. The
ram had not stood q minute when
lhe fireman heard some one say. Pull
lutl and almost instantly two shots
we're fred and the engine started up.
throwing him Of under the pipe The
and express ear we're run down
lhs track 10 the point ! showed you.
lbDUf . mile and q quarter. where
stopped and went to the express
ar door and asked the messenger for
iomefhinE IN his car He answered
be knew then and would not
,pen 1be 00sE They then tired sey-
'rsi Eh0tf through the ear. and eri-
sssing the lights coming. fed
.eross the fields When the con
luetOr and party came NJ they climb
& On the engine and found poor
MILO LYING DEAD
o front Of the 6re-bor. bis head being
Iui ID the tender. He had fallen on
he face The robbers had not dis.
Iurbed hin. his fine watch and heayy.
ieek-ehsiu being on his person. thoagh
ne Of the bullets had cut the chain
q twain. His mOney-some S30-wss
ound lying near the reverse lever.
Evidently when they told him to pull
ut he reached for biz money. and
hey thought
He WAS DRAWING A PISTOL.
md fired at him, as they thought. in
] f-detense. aud his money fel1 out Of
his hand when he was shot. When
We came out at daylight we found
where a man with coal dust on his
.eet had jumped of the engine. and
hat was the only trace we ever had
II the men who committed the crime.
| do not think they intended TO kill
for he was not the kind of a
man that any one who knew would
want to kill. The company spent
thousands OF dollars trying 10 find the
perpetrators Of the deed, but they
have never had even the slightest trace.
THE DETECTIVES
are still on the alert as the rewards of
5000 are yet open TO any one who will
convict the guilty parties, and / am Of
the opinion that some u of the gang
will turn States evidence, aud thus
punishment, and divide the
reward with the officers. 1t is known
now that the one who tells will not be
indicted, so that some one Of them
can DO the State a good turn. and at
the same time fill his pockets. As
they did not get a single cent, and the
murder was committed by one only n
is thought that the one who cut the
train will tell, as he is not a nartv n
that crime, only having conspired To
commit robbery. At any rate this l.
what our lawyers say"
THE MYSTERY
which has surrounded this murder
has been one of the strange crimes
which has bafied every effort Of tho