The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-03-09

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Espress Car ON - Lsnts. Arkansas =
Texas Road The Messengers Deter
mined nus Hopeless Resistance.
PINE Run. Ark. March 1.-The gay
and festive train-robter has again bobbcd
ar sereneiy. this time on the 81. Louis,
Arkansas a Texas railroad. about twen'
~ miles below this city. A. train No. =,
north-bonnd. stopped a. Kingsland. about
ONE o'clock yesterday morning, three men
stepped on the platform Of the baggage
car next 20 the engine. About . mills out
from Kingsiand the train suddenly came
TO . ~standstiil. and Conductor J. Il.
Browning stepped 20 the door 70 see what
was wrong. A. he opened the doc a bull
let whistied by his head, and he At once
concluded that the inside Of the car wa,
good enough for him, aud made . bee line
for the sleeper. where he stayed until the
affair was over.
In the meantime the robbers went 70
work in such q cool and systematic way
Is 70 command the admiration OF all on
board the train. They boarded the en-
glne a 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
frc -box, and supposing Il was one Of the
trainmen trying 20 perpetrate . joks. held
up his shovel. enchanting. "Ah there! 7"
The robher. with grim humor. dropped
the muzxie Of . ~six-shooter against Hark-
nett's cheek with the words. "Stay there,
you" The fireman Recognised the force
Of the remark aud quickly climbed down
from the box.
T.Etu- Aha 0~.~...
them, thoy told them 10 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, tho 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 a lot OF
waste and oil from the engine, proceeded
to set the car on fro.
The messenger, seeing Il was useless 70
hold out any longer. offered 10 open the
door. The engineer and fireman were
made 10 get in The door first the robbers
using the If bodies as ramparts. The mes
senge opened the safe. and the contents
were quickly transferred TO a sack the
robbers carried with them.
The exact amount taken can not Be
ascertained, but il Is no doubt large. as
the run was . very heavy one. The mail
car and tho passenger were not molested
.. all This is the second time that this
same engineer and express messenger
have been held up in . robbery, their
train being robbed near Genoa, Ark. .
few weeks ago.
The messenger received . note Tuesday
night At Taxarkana warning him 70 look
out. but paid no attention TO il. s~upposing
Il TO he . Joke.
The robbers were just thirty five min
utes in doinc their work.
Later reports state that the amount
taken was between $. 900 and $4,000.
Some place the figures much higher. The
sheriff md a posse started out Yesterday
morning in pursuit Of the robbers At
latest reports the hunt had not been sue
c~essful, and blood hounds had been sent
for. Rewards a~ggregating $500 have
been offered