Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-12-06
DARING TRAIN ROBBERY.
Three Thousand Dollars Taken
by Two Road Agents.
Capturing the Engine and Empty
ing the Safe of the Express Car.

A train robbery of extraordinary holiness
was accomplished in the Choctaw Nation
Indian Territory, the other night. The Mis-
souri,. Kansas and Texas express train, north
bound for ST. Louis, was held up on Pryor
Creek near Perry Station and the express car
robbed of about $1,000. The robbers dis
played great GOODNESS. and went ABOUT their
work in such a familiar manner as to con-
vince the train men that they were old time
professionals.
The road agents were only two in number.
They had concealed themselves In clump Of
bushes near the water-tank on Pryor Greek,
and when the train stopped for water they
boarded the engine one on either side, and
covering the astounded engineer and fire
man with their revolvers, explained to them
their design of robbing the train. One of
the robbers climbed into the tender and
from that point of vantage was master OF
the engine The men in the cab were at his
mercy and were compelled to obey
his commands The other robber, IN the
meantime had gone back to the express car
and had uncoupled it from the rest OF the
train Entering the car he inundated the
express messenger by presenting a brace of
reviewers at his head and ordering him to
disarm himself The messenger Obeyed, and
the robber possessed himself of the messen-
gers weapons, and then through the window
called to his confederate in the tender: 'All
right let her 60. Inc laIGeF repeated CIle
command to the engineer, who had nothing to
do but obey He opened the throttle and the
engine and express car sped away from the
rest of the train.
Meanwhile the rObber in the expreSS-car
had not been idle He compelled the mes
senger to open the safe by threat of death
and to transfer the contents to large guns
nv-sack that the robber had brought along
to convey the booty in. The messenger again
obeyed. The robber then made hasty ex-
animation of the car to see that nothing
valuable was overlooked, and giving signal
to his confederate, the latter ordered the
engineer to slack up. This done, the robbers
disembarked and made their escape in the
darkness.
All this was done quickly that the en-
CINE had proceeded only mile and a half
from PRYOR Creek and the robbers had COM
pleted the robbery and effected their escape
before the surprised trainmen knew what had
occurred No attempt was made to pursue
the road-agents, and the engineer ran back
to the creek, picked up his train, and pur-
sued his trip.
The train was the regular express, which
always carries a large amount Of express
matter and the robbers could hardly have Sc
lected a better one for the robbery. When
it arrived at OswegO, Kansas, Express Mes
senger Johnson had just completed footing
up his loss The total figures were between
S45. 900 and $50, OOO This loss must be borne
by the Pacific Express Company, which
operates on the line of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas.
An attempt to rob the Santa Fee train was
made at nearly the same point i'll the Terri
tory during the previous week, but the Off
GERS Of the road in some way heard of the
plan and prevented its execution, although
they were unable to capture the robbers.