, 1889-02-28
TRAIN ROBBERS
StOp a Locomotive and Hold
Up the Express Messenger
ANDKILL A MAN WITH BUCKsnOT.
Another hold Robbery Neatly EI scuted
Two Men Hold Up Twelve Chair
warmers and Got Away.


DeL,No. Cal. Feb. 90, Special.-A
darinv trniu robbery took place at point
about twp miles south of Pixley last eve
n,,r vrn,n No. II left Pixley on time
an / when two miles out two men crowded
Srvln tue front Of the engine. covered the
frenen aud engineers with revolvers and
commapeed q halt. When the train
GLOW. d %, one man still held the fireman
and engineer under cover while the other
went back TO the express car and exploded
a large dynamite bomb un-
derneath the car tn scare the messen-
ger. and said that unless the doors
OF the car be, opSsned he would explode
another bomb. The messenger responded
when one OF the robbers sprang into the
car and obtaining the key the vauables
10 the safe we're taken. After the train
halted a brakeman named Anzon AID a
passenger who boarded the train at Mo.
desto went up on one side of the car and
another brakeman and Ed Bcntly. deputy
constable at Drlans, over the other side TO
see what was the trouble but when near
the express car they we're roughly ordered
to halt and the same moment gun
loaded with huckshot was discharged BY
the ROBBERS over the brakeman's shoulder
hitting young man in the head, death re-
sultinv instantly. The parties on the
other side OF the car met with like re-
ception, and Bentley was shot ia the side
and arm. Another account states there
were five men concerned 10 the robbery,
two OF whom remained on the engine
while three others entered tue express car.
The passenger coaches we're not molested.
The name Of the dead man 10 given as
Charles Colbert Of Poso. The amount se-
cured by the rebbers is not known.
LATER AND FULL REPORT.
DELAEo. Cal. Feb. 23.--This morning
County Coroner Buckruss held an inquest
over the body Of G. r, Colbert. the young
msn who was killed at the train robbery
isst evening. He was aged 20 years and
q native OF West Virginia. lie was in
stantly killed. The testimony given. by
r. F. Bolger, engineer, and G. j. Elder.
Nreman, Of Tulare City, is as follows:
When leaving Pixley two maeked men got
on the engine and covered US with their
guns and ordered ne to pull
out They fred shot when two miles
out, and ordered as to slow down. We
we're taken back by the robbers to the ex.
press car. bomb was then thrown un.
der the car which raised it from the track
when ordered, and was commanded to
light the car. Then one robber gutted the
car, while the other held the fireman, enei.
neer and the messenger under
c,ver. Meanwhile one brakeman
and Colbert came up on one side of the car
and the other brakeman and Bently came
up on the other side to see the cause of
the delay. When approaching one roo.
ber exclaimed, ''Stop," and fred, Colbert
receiving heavy load Of buckshot 10 the
heart and head. The robber then reached
under the car and fired at the
parties on the other side, when
Bentley was struck. The robbers we're
then allowed possession OF the express Car
and marched the three men upon the
engine. Then the robbers backed away In
the darkness. II is thought not to be the
york OF professional robbers as the affair
was terrible and murderous. The testimony
OF all the train men say there was but
two mon implicated and the amount taken
from the car wss small, some reports say
only e4O0. though it 10 not definitely
kaowu. Forces of men are searching the
country, but no clew yet.
OFFIcERs AFTER THEM.
BAKEasriELD, Feb. 23.- A sheriff's
possee of five men joined the others and
are after the robbers. They are supposed
to have gone in an easterly direction to-
wards White River.