The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-12-28


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Dark nsl1. ns~ Ths Exp~~~s Car
ssb1ed % Three Jhsns.na Dosinrs-A
Passenger. Wac Assack~s the sssbhers
with > Wlo<. shss nsd ks1le1-Ths Nab
hers Esraps o. she Suawp-
NEw OnfEASs, Dec. IA special from
Grenada. Miss, % the hcGssa< says thas
two white men stopped passenger train
No. . on the Illinois Central railroad near
Duck Hill. Saturday night. robbed the ex-
press car % $500 and shot and killed
Cha<- Hughes. u Jackson. Tenn = pas
sengcr. who attacked the robbers with =
ride When the train was leaving Duck
Hill. two men boarded the engine and
commanded Engineer A. T. Lac % run
fast and not stop until told The engineer
and fireman Geo. Evans were covered by
navy revolyers and had - obey. When =
mile north of the station the men ordered
the train stopped and the engineer and
fireman were made 20 disrnount and were
marched % the express ear One Of ths
robbers knocked on the car door, aud
Messenger Hill opened IT, Three shots
we're Aired az Hill. and the men then en-
tered the car and took all the money there
wss-S3.n0. Conductor r. b. Wilkinson,
who rushed out on hearing ths firing and
- see why the train stopped. was fired on,
and being unarmcd- returned 70 the train
Charles Hughes. " Jackson. Tenn, a
passenger. then ran out with Winchester
rife As he stepped % the ground he was
shot at One ball struck his left arm, an
other went througs his stomach. inficting
fatal wound. The death 81 the young
man was very sad. as he was the only
support Of his widowed mother. He came
g. Lexington. Miss Saturday, 20 meet his
sisters family and a younger brother, all
OF whom were on the train, and we're
greatly distressed AZ his nntimely death.
The robbery was done in the regular
highway style Nine shots were fired bv
Conductor Wilkinson and Passenger
Rooan. three BY Hughes and four or i've
BY the robbers.
The following description ~ the robbers
j. furnished by Engineer Laws Both
were white men. One was tall and sicn-
der. and the other was 81 ordinary size.
Both were poorly dressed. and showed
themselves 20 be hard characters. The
tall one wore sandy chin whiskers. and
LAW i in doubt as 20 whether he had .
N usfache.
Express Messenger Hill gives the fol-
lowing description Of the robber who en-
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wore a white slorch hat He had no
beard on the side Of his face. The mask
covered his face below the nose. He had
. large nickeI-plased pistol which looked
unusually long. The bore was very large,
and the barrel was round apparently for
a cap and ball The man had dark hair
cut very short Itlooked as II il had been
cut BY country barber. He wore gray
erie ~ n~.1Tu.rw ..rofhDz Ia r.-,f fh.s
stolen money in a sack larger than the
one used on the express car, but u the
same material Both the robbers were
masked
The plain where the robbery occurred
j. an open low marsh. nifty yards from
the woods. The men fed eastward into
the swamp A posse j. being organized
AZ Grenade 70 Join in the chase after them
Bloodhounds will be put on the track
The description 81 the tall uianwitis sandy
whiskers would answer for that ~ the
man who recently robbed . train on the
Northeastern road