Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-30
KANSAS TRAIN ROBBERY AND MURDER.

shortly before o'clock tho "thunderbolt"
passenger train of the Atchinson, Topeka
& Santa Fe railroad was boarded by
twelve masked men at Coolidge, Kansas
and the Neil's Fargo company's safe was
robbed. The engineer refused to stop the
train when ordered by the robbers was in
stantly killed. The fireman and brake
man were badly wounded as was also the
express messenger. 1t is impossible to as
certain the amount of booty the gang OBJ
tanned. The robbery has creates the most
intense excitement in Kansas, where ii was
thought with the breaking up of the James
gang train robbing was to be forever ended.
Coolidge, where the robbery was COM
mitted is small station On the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fee railroad, 456 miles
west of Kansas City, and with the excep-
ton of the telegraph operator is almost
uuinhabite1. An armed posse has been
sent out from Emporia, Topeka, Dodge
City end other points to pursue and cap
ture or kill the robbers. Later: A dis
patch dated at Coolidge says S. 8. Peter
son the express messenger was not hurt
and the robbers got no money.
EMpoR1A, Kas., Sept. 29.-The body of
John Hilton the engineer killed in at
tempting a robbery at Coolidge was
brought here this morning and the coro-
ner's inquest is now being held. Hilton
leaves wife and four children, who re-
side here. The wife is unconscious as a
result of the terrible shock. Deputy
Sheriff Mathers, Nelson Carey, Bill
Coombs and others went from here in a
special train and are in pursuit. The
robbers are heavily armed and no doubt
will resist arrest. Parties on the train
say they can identify the parties if caught.
Todele, the fireman, was shot in the mouth
the ball coming out behind the jaw, max
ing most painful wound. The train was
in charge of Conductor Greeles. Supt.
Patche, of the Wells-F Fargo express, has
received dispatch from Messenger Peter
son confirming the story as already sent.
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 29.-It is known two
robbers were engaged in the Coolidge
fight. 1t is generally believed there was
third in the party. 9. G. James, postal
clerk, tells the following story: The train
had stopped at the station and the con-
ductor had Just signaled to start when
man with drawn revolver climbed on the
| render. scuffle ensued. Meanwhile q
man opened the door of the express car,
stumbling as he entered. He at once
opened fire on the messenger who crouched
behind box. The robber fired four times
and the messenger returned the fire when
the former retreated from the car. Just
as the fireman, who had left the engine,
was passing the platform the robber fired,
and Fade, the fireman, fell senseless
with bullet through his
neck. Meantime the first
robber who had been forced backward by
the engineer, fired at the engineer, who
fell dead shot through the head. James,
hearing the firing, had gone to the door of
his car and witnessed the attack on the
express car. By this time people hao
come out of the train and the robbers had
disappeared. Only few persons wit
messed the shooting. s. S.
Paterson the messenger who
resides here, told about the same story as
James. He declined to say how much
money was on the express car. Everybody
seemed dazed by the shooting and it was
some time before a pursuit was organized.
One theory of the affair is that the robbers
had accomplices further down the road and
the intention was to run the train short
distance and stop, but that the assailants
were somewhat under the influence of
liquor and their plan miscarried. Two
strangers were seen about the platform
before the train arrived. AS a curious
coincidence it is related train was st
tackled a few miles west of Coolidge, across
the line in Colorado, just Que year ago to-
night and the Wells-Fargo express safe
robbed.
POSTAL NOTE FRAUDS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-An ingenious
method of raising the figures of the new
postal notes has just been brought to the
attention of the postofice department.
The fraud consists in punching from high
figure in the note a piece of paper of
proper shape and size to fill up the hole
previously punched by the postmaster
through lower figure. The written words
and figures are thsn removed by acid and
the blanks filled in to correspond with the
punched figures. Somes of the notes have
been changed so skillfully that is is very
difficult to detect the alterations.
ROBBERS SENTENCED.
PITTsBuRG, Sept. 29.-John G. Gordon,
R. M. George and Albert Crusean, mem
bers of a band of highway robbers. who
worked the Maryland, West Virginia &
Western Pennsylvania extremity, were
sentenced to-day to twenty years each in
the Western penitentiary.
INITIATED HER YRIEND.
PIrrsBURG, Pa, Sept. 29.-Mrs. Joseph
Bryant, the young woman who has been
secretary of DR.. o. E. Newton, the recently
prominent and wealthy Cincinnati physi-
clan who committed suicide here two
weeks ago, took her own life day with
morphine. Grief over DR.. Newton's death
was the cause.
RosH AMBLBR's MURDER.
STRATroRD, Conn.,, Sept. 29.-The coroner's
Jury in the Rose Amber case rendered their YER
dict to-day as follows: ''We find that said Rose
Amber came to her death by being choked to
death at the hands of some person or persons to
the jury unknown, but from VIM. Lewis con-
nection with her in the past and from his testi-
mony, and from his conduct since her death,
and from the evidence, we think suspicion
points toward him. Lewis has not yet been
arrested.
AN OLD OFFENDER.
MONTREAL, Sept. 29.-The absconding pro-
Il, ,o+;,