Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-12-16
TRAIN ROBBERY.
A FJrt Worth and Denver Passenger
Train Robbed by Three Men.
Among the Finy Passengers only One
Woman Exhibited Pluck or Brav-
ery..A Daring Robbery.


Fort WORTH, Dec. 14.-At II 40 to-day the
mail aud express train on tie Fort Worth n
Denver, bound for Font Worth, stopped at a
water tank just north of Bellevue Station, sew
enty-fve miles north of Fort Worth, A few
minutes before the train arrived three men had
ridden up to house 800 yards from the tank,
tied their horses and ordered dinner, They
walked lelsurely toward the tank, aud about
that me train pulled in. One Of the three
men ord red engineer Claude Ayers, the fire.
man, the porter, johnson the baggagemaster,
and o. G. Miller, an engineer who was riding
in the cab, TO leave the road, and tanSman
to get of the train and get In line about thirty
feet distant from the train. The men com
piled, an were ordered to throw up both
hands, when the road agent went through
them, and then kept them in line. In the
meantime, the two cenied rates had gone to
& e smoker, AMI began the work Of Doodle
gather ng.
When the men had been noticed going
through the pockets Of the porter, Tasst .er
in the rear car, who had his head out of the
window, saw what was up, AMI immed lately
went through the two coaches ealing out:
"Put away your money and va'uab'es: we will
be robbed" At cnce tie pas engers secretei
all they could and awaited results. In the
smoking car were four United States ST liiers,
negroes, belonging to the oath Infantry under
command Of Superintendent Corners. in
charge of two deserters, Reich ard Culz, being
taken to IeayenN orth fro m Fl. Sill. Conn RS
ordered his men to draw their pistols and give
fight; that III, robbers must not be permitted
to go through the cars. When II was seen
that the soldiers were going to fight, Henr,
Ell niger, OF Fort Sill, /. T., went to ColnerS
and begged him to submit tamely, saying Q
women and C ildren were greatly alarmed, and
that all the va uables were hidden away and
but little could b, obtained, besides, he sa d !:
"These men may have 10 or 81 c)nfed rates
in these ravines about here, and you will eau &c
other people to be murdered" Others Joined
Ellinger in his reque t AMI Connors reluct ant
ly consented t. do as requested. By this
time tie two mn had reached the SOL
diers, and, covering them with forty -fyes, d.
manded their pistols, which tn, sold ers sur
rendered.
slow much money have you got" i
one Of the robbers. sony $50 10 feed my
prisoners with. ~ answarad Con, p.
.ryou can kec, II then - and tho roh,er.
nossej on Thev to,J tho I,d 90 In tho las,
coach IN not he afraid. ,,.y uou,an,, ,oL
anything from them, aud were true 10 tn r
words, but several ladies were greatly ala me |.
Having gone through the la 1t car they..ordcr.
ed passengers to vacate and 90 to the sleeper,
which order was obeyed. The door was locke
at tho forward erd and ,hon ,ho uo,L =,
iumn,d from the rear platform I'm, called
ont "Como on nortnor ,,,o tho man C,,arIIn,,
the engineer and comn,n Io,s who ieined tho
others They walked ieisureIv N tbsir borse,
mounted and rode awav "a At 10 tho north ,as,
ard wheeled around southwest and r,d
the h.avv timb,r fonr miles below RelIevue
The train hurried 70 Bellevue, aud te,eyr,ms
were sent to Stunt. c. L. Frost. at this ~. de-
falling the crime.
ductor, gold watch and $40; Baggagemaster
Miller, silver watch an / SIS; Engineer Ayers,
gold watch and 81; Fireman, silver watch +:
J.W. Conway, of the Gazette of this city,
silver watch and thirty C ms; from messengers
money amounting to BIOS. Altogether there
were three fine gold watches, ten silver
watches, five yeyolyers, one gold ring and
the money mentioned stolen. The United
States mail was not disturbed. Can't. w, s.
Ikard, of Henrietta, a rich cattlcman, WAS on
the train and had $500, watch he placed in
the band of his pants and saved Il. JR.
Jones, of Vernon, had s2 200 in preenbacks.
which he placed between his under and over.
shirt and only gave I'D six dollars in silver.
A number of passengers slowed away from
IS to So O In diamond Ems, watches and rings
and the robbers seemed In such hurry when
they reached the last car that none of IL was
lost except diamond, Il being Il rown to the
floor and never found afterwards.
The robbery is the boldest on recoad in
this mart of the State. The m, n made no efro,t
to conceal Their faces, and talked and Joke
with the passengers as they robbed them, One
NJ the robbers ia rosI,,velv know, and b,s =,
b,otber LIVING in Wise county Three ladies'
.mono ,be 6ftv po,sengers won tho odmir,t,on
of all for their nlnck and bravery Mrs W.T..
tick NJ Cartbage Mo stood mn Inv her bus.
hand and said. uAre forty mon oo,,, 10 onh