The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-09-28
BAFFLED BANDITS.

A Gang OF Would. be Train Robbers Thwart'
cd by the Onicers of the Law, Who Evil
IDENTIFY Scared Them o6-Tbe Texas Pa
cific Train Was the Apple of Their Eye.
Tuesday morning HERALD reporter got
an mixing that train robbery on the Texas
& Pacific road was on the taps, and he began
at once to try and ferret out the truth of it,
He soon succeeded in finding out enough ia
satisfy himself that there was something IL
it, but as it was not to take place until
Wednesday night, he refrained from making
any mention of it, as the officials of the
road had planned to give the would-be rob-
bers o warm reception. 1t did not occur
as was anticipated, however: yet as the fun
would all be spoiled if the facts were
published, and would in all probability
prevent an attack that might follow, Thurs
day night the item was laid away to keep
until something more difinite and CORY oc-
Cured, but yesterday morning it leaked
out, and as the rumor began to spread he
determined to give statement of the facts
as subsequently Cleaned from q reliable
source. Monday morning Deputy Sheriff
Mathews. of Callahan county, Sheriff Pitt
man and Sheriff Allen, of Wise and Cole
man counties, who knew of the proposed
robbery, arrived in the city and
held conference with the author
tiles here for the purpose OF
having concert of action. They stated that
the gang of cowboys, some twelve in mum.
Der, who murdered the city marshal OF
Caldwell, Kansas, the first part of last June,
had been hanging around Callahan county
and raiding through the northwestern
counties for some time past. and that Dep,
uty Sheriff Mathews, of Callahan, had
learned through a woman who had the
confidence of the gang, that they
contemplated, robbing the Texas d
T rhob arsss here at s p mr. a
Mesquite on the night of the Goth. They
were to meet that night, according to her
story, at the residence of j. M. Cornelius,
near the place, and to surprise and capture
the train Just as it pulled into the station
and rob the express and passengers, but
the United States mail was not to be mo-
Tested. The persistent way in which the
government has heretofore bounded down
mail robbers has caused the knights of the
road to have unbounded respect for the
mail coach. On investigation it proved
that there was no person of that name llv-
ing near there, but there is letter in the
postoffice addressed to that name, the post
mark of which is indistinct The officers,
from what can be learned, conferred with
CITY MARSHALL ATUOlu anu Duellu JULIUS,
and an armed force was organized and
equipped to meet the attack. They went
as far east as Forney, where some boarded
the. west bound train, which the robbers
were to attack. They secreted themselves
in the express mail car and cab ofthe engine
and were all ready for the looked for at.
tack. The train was about half an hour
late when it pulled up at Mesquite station
and the coming of the robbers was anx-
iously awaited but none put in an appear
ance. Whether the robbers were discon-
certed by the lateness of the train or post
poned the attack is not known. They may
have been apprised of the movements of the
officers. The names of the twelve men who
compose the band are not known
to the reporter, yet they
are all refugees from justice.
and more desperate or lawless gang never
straddled horse than they.
A wild rumor was afloat yesterday that
the Missouri Pacific trains from Fort
Worth via Denton, were running via Dallas
and Denton to Denison, for fear of
an attack between Fort Worth and Denton,
but the trains came from Fort Worth here
yesterday and went out over the Wichita
branch of the Missouri Pacific simply be-
cause there was a'washout on the line be-
tween Fort Worth and Denton at the Elm
Fork crossing. The express companies here
have not sent out any money for the past
two days, owing to the looked for robbery.