The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-17
ROBBERS STOP A TRAIN.
A PASSENGER KILLED BY ONE OF
THE SIXTEEN SHOTS FIRED.

Neither of the Desperadoes Believed
to be Wounded-Thsy Carried Off
$4,000 from the Express Car-One
of the Pair Believed to Have Been in
the Northeastern Road Robbery.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Dec. ia dis
patch from Grenada, Miss, to the Picayune
saws; Last night Saturday passenger
train No. 2, on the Illinois Central railroad
was robbed one mile north of Duck Hill.
At 1918 o'clock, when the train pulled out
of Duck Hill, two men boarded the engine
and commanded the engineer, a. J. Law, to
pull out fast and not stop until told The
engineer and the fireman, George Evans.
both being covered with navy skies,
obeyed the command, and when one mile
north of Duck Hill, the train was stopped
and the engineer and fireman ordered to
dismount.
ROBBING THE EXPRESS CAR.
"This they then promptly did They
were then marched to the express car. One
of the robbers knocked on the door, which
was opened by the messenger After firing
three shots the man entered and took S., 900
all there was in the carvfrom Messenger
Hill. The firing of the pistol and the 3 op-
ping Of the train attracted the attention of
the conductor ?. 3. Wilkinson, who rushed
out, and was Immediately fired upon. He
returned to the train.
A PASSENGER KILLED.
''Chess Hughes of jackson, Tenn, then
ran cut 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
!, e4.1 oh ipHi n fot TLa
death of the young man was very sad, as
be was the only support of his widowed
mother. He came to Lexington, Miss,
Yesterday to meet his sisters family and a
younger brother, all of whom were on the
train, and were much distressed by his I'M
timely death.
IN REGULAR HIGHWAY STYLE.
1.-THE robbery was done in regular high
way style. Nine shots were fired by Con-
ductor 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 passengers,
who feared for the safety of their valuableS
and their lives.
A DESCRIPTION OF THE ROBBERS
1.-THE following description of the robbers
is furnished by Engineer A. j. Law: Both
were white men. One was tall and slender,
and the other was of ordinary size Both
were poorly dressed and showed themselves
to be hard characters. The tall one wore
sandy chin whiskers. | don't know whether
he had mustache or not
MESSENGER HILLS PEN PICTURE.
Express Messenger Hill gives the follow
ing description of the robber who entered
the car: He was a tall man, 5 feet 10
inches high, and wore a white slou. IT
He had no beard on the side of his fa4e I'd
a mask covered his face below his nose. He
had large nickel-plated revolver, which
looked unusually long. The bore was very
large and the barrel was round, apparently
for cap and bail. The man had dark hair,
cut very short. 1t looked as if it had baen
cut by a country barber. He wore a gray
suit of very ordinary clothes. He put the
money taken from the messenger in q sack
larger than the one used on the express car,
but Of the same material
BOTH WERE MASKED.
''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.
1.-THE place of the robbery was an open,
low marsh, about fifty yards from a woods.
The robbers ran eastward and into the
swamp a posse is being organized here to
iofn in the chase. Bloodhounds will be used
to follow the trail
THE description of the tall man with
sandy whiskers is a good description Of a
man who recently robbed train on the
Northeastern road"