The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-09-26
ON A HOT TRAIL
TWO OF THE CROWLEY TRAIN
ROBBERS TRACKED INTO
JOHNSON COUNTY.
Some of the Money and a Pistol Found
Where They Had Dropped It-De-
tails Of the Robbery.

Special to the Statesman.
FoRT WORTH, September 25.-Sheriff Rich
ardson and posse returned tonight from
Johnson county, where they trailed two of
the train robbers. They were met by Mar
shal Keith, of Cleburne, and posse. and all
took up hot trail from the railroad track.
Near the track some seventy odd dollars
were picked up. The trail led west for
three miles and then turned south. On
slough the officers found the seals which
had been broken off two sacks of silver, and
brand new pistol, which had been
left by the robbers. After tracking the
robbers for eighteen miles the officers came
to two roads and took the south road where
they lost the trail.
The Express company has offered a re-
ward $500 for each robber, and the Santa
Fe railroad $1,000 for each robber The
officers of neighboring counties have been
notified and are on the lookout.
Two men were arrested this afternoon late
for passing Mexican money, but they
proved that they were passengers on the
train and had picked the money up, and
were released. Superintendent Chrisleson,
of the Wells Fargo company, will be here
tomorrow. Capt. McMurray, of the
rangers, has ordered his company hom
the west and will scout the country to-
morrow. The express officials refuse to
tell how much the robbers got, but admit
it was over $4,000. The. following are the
details of the robbery:
Just this side of Crowley, station on the
Santa Fe railway twelve miles south of
here, the northbound train, due here at
1920, was robbed by three train robbers
and probably large booty obtained. From
two passengers on the train maeger details
are obtained.
About one and half miles this side of
Crowley the robbers took possession of the
engine and express, ran it half mile or
more up the track, robbed the express car
and left, going off in southeasterly direc-
ton. 1t was currently reported on the
train that the Wells, Fargo Express COM
pany, running on this line, had $50, 200
when it left Galveston yesterday morning.
and as the robbers left three bags of silver
ON the ground after the robbery it
is presumed they got enough in notes
mail were not molested, and after delay
of an hour or more the train arrived here.
From Mail Agent Glenn the following is
obtained: AT Crowley several men got on
the train armed with Winchesters. Two
or three men got on the tender, and these
the engineer and fireman, thinking they
were tramps and discovering their presence
just after leaving Crowley, tried to drive off
with shovels, etc, when the robbers COW
cred them with revolvers and directed them
to stop the train at the first mile post
"We do not know where that is, said the
engineer.
'We will show YOU" said one of the rob-
bers, and they did. The robbers had their
horses hitched there, and after taking what
they wished from the express safe, which
they forced open, they left.
There were several sacks of silver they re-
fused to take. They told the mail and
baggage men to keep quiet and they would
not be disturbed, and they both obeyed
orders, and thus, though there was a