Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-21
TRAIN ROBBED.
Illinois Central Passenger Train
Held Up in Mississippi.
Two Masked Highwaymen Do the Work
and Secure $4,000 from the
Express Car.
A Young Man from Jackson, Tenn, Killed In
the Melee that Followed-The Rob
bers Escape Uniniured.
HERE WE ARE AGAIN.

NEW ORLEANS, La. Dec. ia dis
yune says: Last night Saturday pas
senger train No on the Illinois Central
Road was robbed one mile north Of Duck
Hill. Two men boarded the engine and
commanded the engineer, A. J. Law, to
pull out fast and not to stop until told. The
engineer and Fireman George Evans,
both being covered with skies,
obeyed the command, and when one mile
north Of Duck Hill the train was stopped
and the engineer and fireman were or
| dered TO dismount. This they promptly
| did. They were then marched to the ex-
press car. One of the robbers knocked
on the door, which was opened by the
messenger. After firing three shots the
man entered and took $4,000, all there
was in the car, from Messenger Hill.
The firing of pistols and the stopping Of
the train attracted the attention of the
conductor, P. R. Wilkinson, who rushed
out and was Immediately fired upon. He
RETURNED TO THE TRAIN.
Mr.. Charles Hughes of Jackson,
Tenn. then ran out with Winchester
rifle. As he stepped on the ground from
the smoking car he was fired upon. One
shot struck him in the left arm. Another
went through his stomach infiicting ~
fatal wound. The death of the young
man was very sad as he was the only sup
port Of his widowed mother. He came to
Lexington, Miss. yesterday to meet his
SISTERS family and younger brother, all
of whom were on the train and were much
distressed by his untimely death.
The robbery was done in the
REGULAR HIGHWAY STYLE.
Nine shots were fired by Conductor
Wilkinson and Travelling Passenger Agent
Roban, three by Hughes and four or five
by the robbers. During the robbery
great uneasiness was felt by the passen-
gers who feared for the safety Of their
yaluables and lives.
The following description of the rob-
beers is furnished by Engineer A. ] Law:
Both men were white, one tall and slen-
der and the other of ordinary size. Both
were poorly dressed, and showed them
selves to be hard characters. The tall
one wore sandy chin whiskers. 1 don t
know whether he had mustache or not.
THE LEADER DESCRIBED.
Express Messenger Hill gives the fol-
lowing description of the robber who en-
tered the car: He was tall, may be five
feet ten inches high and wore q white
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of his face and a mask covered his face
below his nose. He had large nickel
plated pistol which looked unusually
long. The bore was very long and the
barrel was round, apparently for cap
and ball. The man had dark hair, cut
very short. 1t looked rs if it had been
cut by country barber. He wore
gray suit of very ordinary cloth. He put
the money taken from the messenger in a
sack larger than one used on the express
car but of the same material. Both Of
the robbers were masked.
1t is believed that neither of the men
was hit by the shots fired at them from
the train. The place of the robbery was
an open low marsh about fifty yards from
the woods. Both robbers ran eastward
and into the swamp. A posse is being
organized here to join in the chase.
Bloodhounds will be used TO follow the
track. The description of the tall man
with sandy whiskers is a good description
of the man who recently robbed the train
on the Northeastern road.