Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-10-27
A Bold Express Car Robbery on a
Missouri Train.
THE AMOUNT OF THE THEFT
SAID TO BE $50, 900.
Dime Novels 0utdone by a Tragedy
Enacted in Indiana.
A NEGRO MURDERER PREFERS SUICIDE
70 LYNcHlNG.
A $4,000 Blaze in Wash
ington City.
TERRIBLE FALL OF A HOTEL
EMPLOYE.
ESPECIAL TO THE sENTISEL.l

n B0iu EXp sHF AouDeFy'
ST.. LOUIS, Oct. 26.-The Adams express
car attached to passenger train No. . ON
the 81. Louis aud San Francisco railroad,
which left this city at 1875 o'clock last
night, was robbed Of over $4,000 in cash
between here and Pacific, Missouri. From
the meagre reports at hand it seems hat as
the train left this city a man giving the
name of Cummings presented letters to
Express Messenger Rockingham, purport-
ing to be signed by off Gers of the COM
pany, stating that Cummings was about
to take a run on the line, and asking that
rockingham give him points. When
near Meremac the stranger overpowered
the messenger, gagged him and bound
him to q safe, after which he cody riied
the car. He cut open bags containing silver,
but took none Of il. At Meremac the
robber left the train. The robbery was
not discovered until the train reached
Pacific, when the express car was broken
open and the messenger, rockingham,
found tied to the safe. The express Off
cials are reticent, but admit that over $780,
600 was taken. The robber is imperfectly
u6sCElD0u DO o shil QhI tuab Va PACPOooOoo
ing appearance, dressed in black, with
very large hands and feet. 1t is q singular
coincidence, that he gave the name Of Jim
Cummings, the only member of the once
celebrated James gang, who had never
been u ted for.
LATER-The man who gave the name of
Cummings to FrothiDham the messenger,
presented to him a ~cleverly forged letter
bearing q perfect fac-simile Of the sigma
lure Of Mr.. Barrett, route local agent OF
the express company at ST. Louis. The
letter stated that the route agent had
decided to put an extra man on the
route; that the bearer was he, and that
rockingham was directed to teach him
the details of the business. The stranger
was allowed to enter the car, and took
great interest in all of the movements of
the messenger, apparently desiring to learn
quickly the ms and outs OF the duties,
which, the letter stated, he was expected
to perform. The two men busted Them
selves with accounts, etc., and all went
well until a point between st. Louis and
Pacific, No., was reached. rockingham
was busily engaged over his accounts with
his back turned to Cummings. In the
course Of time it became necessary for
him to go to the safe, and turning to do
so, saw the stranger calmly sitting in his
chair with q cooked revolver leyeled at his
(Frothingham's) head. Cummings eau.
tiously approached the dumbfounded
messenger, and told him il he remained
quiet and made or raised no alarm he
would not be endangered. rockingham
had nothing to do, but to submit, and the
robber bound him hand and foot, pressed
a gag into his mouth, tied him to the safe.
so that he could not move. and proceeded
with his work. The safe had been left
open, and it took but a few minutes for
the robber to secure tho bank notes and
valuables in the shape of ~jewelry, etc.
The road at this point rum directly along
the side OF a high bluff, which, in places,
overhangs the track, making it dangerous
of wrecks from collisions with boulders,
which occasionally fall from above upon
the tracks. Very great trains, therefore,
slack up at this point. and run slowly
until the dangerous place Is parsed. This
the engineer of train No. 3 did, as usual,
and thus offered the robber easy means to
escape. He first locked all but one door,
stepped out on to the platform. locked the
door from the outside, and jumped off.
rockingham in the meantime could do
nothing 30 release himself, not being able
even TO call for help. Two hours later q
conductor tried the door, and hearing
some one struggling within suspected
something was wrong. He burst the door
open, finding rockingham as above de-
scribed. He was quickly released. and
told his experience. The robber had the
start of fully two hours, and it was useless
to run back and try and find him. The
train, therefore, proceeded on its way, and
..-s-a 10 kI:a ns&y, AHA xnasoiDn IN tka
return trip rockingham Immediately
sought the Superintendent Of the COM
pany, and was closeted with him for some
time, at the end of which he commenced
the preparation Of his official report, re-
fusing to make any statement TO outsiders
regarding the robbery, excepting that the
total loss would amount to something
over $50, 900. The officers Of the company
have nothing to say of the affair.
Good Dime Novel Subjects.
LOUISVILLE, Oct. ga Courier-Jour-
nal special says: Alexander Hoard and
John Paxton, school boys and rivals in
love, stood in q store at New Frankfort,
Ind, yesterday. Their sweetheart, Miss
Ines Hollis. passed. by, going to school.
Hoard threw q kiss at her, and Paxton,
enraged, knocked him In the head with q
stick. fracturing his skull, and then
stamped hiG face to q jelly. Paxton seemed
a mad man, and foamed at the mouth. and
before he could be captured rushed TO the
woods, waving his hands and shrieking.
Hoard will die. Both are sons OF prom
inent farmers OF Scott county. Great ex-
element prevails. The young lady re-
mains by the bedside Of her dying lover.
A Negro Murderer Suicides.
VALLEY FALLS, KS. Oct. 26.-Cy Laf-
terty. the negro. who SO brutally beat his
wife and then set fire to her clothing after
.satnratinR them with coal ell. at Leayen-