Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-13
DARING ROBBERY.
The Mail Clerk in the Houston Post
Office Overpowered and Tied by a
Masked Robber.
thirty Seven R.gisiered Packages rnkep
Amounting IN Vslue 10 About six
Thousand Dollars.
Special to the Gazette.

aOO5iON, lAAsI Wv. la LlUsb re-
malksble robbery WAS perpetrsted in this
city at an early hour this morning, where.
by the msil bsg containing the registered
pouches for Galveston WAS cut open and
thirty-seven valuable packages carried
away by the ro5ber or robbers. 1. hap
pened between the hours of and 4
o'clock. The San Jacinto street door
was lsf. unlocked for the last load of the
m,il and Mr.. Roberts wss at work at the
registering deck in the rear Of the G &c,
inst to the rigat of the San Jacinto SIRE ct
door es you enter. While thus enga ed
he was confronted by very tsll man
Heerir e smask. He had
MURD.RoUS LOOKING PISTOL
in his hand which he pointed towards M
Roberts heart ard told him 20 throw up
his hands. MIR. Roberts WAS then securely
lied 10 s chair in sitting posture, his
arms being pinioned and his legs tied to
the rounds OF the chsir. The roboer then
produced bottle CT whisky snd told the
mailing clerk he must drink it. The rob
Der did rot cay whct wss In the bottle
and naturally at d.st Mr.. Roberts de.
c!ined the invitation, but fhe
robber then pulled from his
pocket razor and informed him that ii
ne did not drink he would
CUT HIS THROAT
from ear to ear. Mir. RJberts drank, and
ne drank until the robDer thought he had
taken 81 fiji lent. The robber then pro-
| csedec to nelp himself to the registered
m all matter. Hetook the bag of registered
parcels bound for Galveston, Gu. i. open
and putting the registered pouches into q
mail sack, walked out Of the door, leaving
the mailing clerk tied to chair and well
under the influence OF the whisky
or drug. About O'Clock Mr..
Louis Coleman, the porter, who sleeps in
irg, heard noise below and cam down.
but
LYING UPON BIS FACE
CT the foor, with the blood running from
mis- nose. He had attempted to get up
snd had fallen upon his face, stri sing his
nose against the sharp edge OF s piece OF
f lrniture, drawing Ehe blood. The PIN
ioHed man was soon released, but he YVES
grestly supplied by the liquor and seemed
TO be suffering some psin. By this
time the POSTS nail man had arrived
and seeing the condition of affairs be
came back to the eff; OF the Post ard
with his eyes almost swinging Gu. on bis
cheeks reported that q mon had been
KNOCKED IN The HEAD
a. the post flee. A number OF carrier
boys aud others went TO the postC flee
snd one OF them was dispatched for Dr..
Stuar. and Postmaster 6urls. Mayor
Smi b and Deputy Marshal Dan Scanlon
were also informed OF the affair. Dr.
Stuart arrived az did what was neces
ssry tor Mr. Roberts. He vopited copi-
ousIy after DR.. Stuart arrived and 1t
WAS noticed that tue vomit Wss
tiDged with blood. This DR.. Stewar:
esid WAS caused by the fact that his nose
bied internally snd he wss not in con-
dition or position 20 spit it out. He also
gave 1t as mis- opinion tina. the robber had
only administered
WHISKY WITHOUT ANY DRUG.
The amount taken by The roDber cannot
be ascertalned, tu. ne took oil the regis
tered pscksges except one that came IN
on the Southern P1cifc midnight train
from the east and west bound for Calves.
ton. This package was not found by
the robber because II contained some
heavy SUBSTANCE, gold or silver and
therefore Rugged very close to the bottom
OF TIE beg He carried CT, however,
about thirty seven packages. He did not
tsmper with the sefs in The offi ie, and in
fact he did not eturb anything except
the registered packages for 6 !lves!on.
AS to now maIy robbers there are, It is
only matter Of conjecture. ORly one
wss seen by MIR. Roberts, tut 1t Is though:
that there were two more
ON THE OUTSIDE.
The mail agent, who came over from
New Orleans on the 2:s2 train, recol!ects
passing three men on the Franklin street.
bridge when In the mail wagon en- route
to the postt flee. After he had gotten to
the posto flee he thinks he SEW the same
three men soon SITTER pass the San Jacinto
stree. door II the postc m:e, and it WAS
rot more than hs!f sn hour after this that
the robbery was committed. As soon o.
Ms or Burns srrived at the posto flee,
which WAS shout O'Clock, he sent G
messenger for DR.. L. J. Randall, Post
[ fife Inspector, who happened to be in
the city, end the case WIS turned over
to him. The case is o remarkable one
ard Is the universal theme Of converse
ton oh the ssreete, but IS TO whether there
is any clue to the perpetrator reports are
cor flictirg. Ooe thing is certain, he OF
they have not been apprebended, bu. they
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