Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-08
THE FESTIVE TRAIn-RoBBER.

He Makes Himself Manifest Again in Ar
kansas, and systematically Plumbers an
Express Car on st. Louis, Arkansas s.
Texas Road-The Messengers Deter
mined But hopeless Resistance.
PINE BLUFF, Ark, March 1.-The CAV
and festive train-robber has again bobbed
up serenely, this time on the ST. Louis
Arkansas & Texas railroad, about TWEEN.
fy miles below this city. AS train No. 9,
Unbound, stopped at Kingsland, about
one O'Clock yesterday morning, three men
stepped on the platform of the baggage
car next to the engine. About a mile out
from Kingsland the train suddenly came
60 a standstil, and Conductor J. b.
browning stepped to the door to see what
was wrong. As he opened the door a bull.
let whistled by his head, and he at once
concluded that the inside of the car was
good enough for him, and made bee line
for the sleeper, where he stayed until the
affair was over
In the meantime the robbers went tc
work in such a cool and systematic way
as to command the admiration of all on
board the train. They boarded the en-
gine and commanded the engineer, Bob
Rev, and fireman, Ed Harknett, to hold
up their hands. Harknett was just in the
act of throwing shovelful OF coal into the
fire box, and supposing it was one of the
traIninen trying to perpetrate joke, held
up his shovel, eXclaiming, "Ah THEREOF
The robher, with grim humor. dropped
the muZzle of a six-shooter against Hark-
nett's cheek with the words, "Stay there,
you" The fireman recognized the force
of the remark and quickly climbed down
from the box.
Taking the fireman and engineer with
them, they told them to call on the mes
senger to open the door of the express
car. They did so, but he refused to show
up. Then began a fusilade that made
every passenger on the train think they
were surrounded by a small army. firing
of this, the robbers ordered the fireman to
take the slash bar from the engine and
break in the door of the car. He obeyed,
and after working about ten minutes at
the job, they concluded matters were not
moving fast enough, and, getting lot of
waste and oil from the engine, proceeded
to set the car on fire.
The messenger, seeing it was useless to
hold out any longer, offered to open the
door. The engineer and fireman were
made to get in the door first, the robbers
us ing their bodies as ramparts. The mes
senger opened the safe, and the contents
were quickly transferred to a sack the
robbers carried with them.
Inc exact amount taken can not De
ascer aimed, but it is no doubt%Iarge, as
the run was very heavy one. The mail
car and the passengers were not moles ted
a. all. This is the second time that this
same engineer and express messenger
have been held up in a robbery, their
train being robbed near Genoa, Ark, a
few weeks ago.
The messenger received note Tuesday
night at Taxarkana warning him to look
out, but paid no attention to it, supposing
it to be joke.
The robbers were just thirty-five min
utes in doing their work.
Later reports state that the amount
taken was between s.. 600 and $40. 600
Some place the figures much higher. The
sheriff and posse started out yes terday
morning in pursuit of the robbers. At
latest reports the hunt had not been sue
cessful, and blood hounds had been sent
for. Rewards aggregating 81 800 have
been offered.