Evening journal., 1888-12-17
IN TRUE BANDIT STYLE.
Two Highwaymen sHoId Up"
a Passenger Train.
ONE PASSENGER IS SHOT DEAD.

Tho Robbers Force Their Way Into the
Express Car and Capture $4,000.
Twelve shots Fired at the Thieves. who
Escape Unipi~red.
WIxoNA, Miss, Dec. 1I-Passenger train
No. . on the Illinois Central railroad was ap-
preaching Duck Hill, north of here, about
% o'clock at night, when il was stopped by
.wo men, who robbed the express car q
e3 600 and shot and killed Charles Hughes, OF
jackson, Tenn, passenger who had GOV
cred the robbers with rifle. When the train
was reaching Duck Hill two men boarded the
engine and commanded the engineer, A. J.
Law, to run fast and not stop until told TO.
The engineer and Fireman George Evans,
were covered by navy revolvers and forced
to obey. When a mile north of the station
the men ordered the train stopped. The en-
gineer and fireman were made TO dismount,
and were marched 20 the express car. One
Of the robbers knocked on the car door, and
Messenger Hill opened it Three shots We're
fired at HILL and the men entered the car and
took all the money there was--S3, 900.
Conductor p. B. Wilkinson, who rushed
out ON hearing the firing, TO see why the
train stopped, was fired on, and, being un-
armed, he returned to the train. Charles
Hughes, Of jackson, Tenn, a passenger, then
ran out with Winchester rifle AS he
stepped to the ground he was shot at. One
ball struck his left arm. Another went
through his stomach, inaicting a fatal
wound. The death OF the young man was
very sad, as he was the only support of his
widowed mother. He came TO Lexington,
Miss, 10 meet his sisters family and a
younger brother, all Of whom were on the
train aud were greatly distressed at his un-
timely death.
The robbery was done In the regular high
way style. Nine shots were fired by Conduc-
tor Wilkinson and Passenger Roban, three
by Hughes and four or five by the robbers.
During the robbery great uneasiness was felt
by the passengers, who feared for the safety
Of their valuaoles. Engineer Law says that
both were white men. One was tall and
slender and the other Of ordinary size. Both
were poorly dressed, and showed themselves
to be hard characters. The tall one wore
sandy chin whiskcrs, and Law is in doubt as
TO whether he had a mustache.
Express Messenger Hin gives the following
description OF the robber who entered the
car; "He was tall man, AVID wore white
slouch Lat He had no beard on the side OF
his face. The mask covered the face below
the nose. He had large nicSle-plated pis.
tol, which looked unusually long The bore
was very large and the barrel was round.
apparently for cap and ball The man had
dark hair, cut very short 1t looked as if il
had been cut by a country barber. He wore
gray suit Of very ordinary clothes He put
the stolen money IN a sack, larger than the
one used on the express car, but Of the same
material Both Of the robbers were masked. y
1t is believed that neither was hit by the
shots fired at them.
The place where the robbery occurred 4
an open low marsh, fifty yards from woods.
The men fed eastward into the swamp A
posse is being organized 20 join in the chase
after them Bloodhounds win be put on
their track The description Of the tall man
with the whiskers would answer for that Of
the man who recently robbed a train on tse
Northeastern railroad