St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-26
THREE OF A BAD KIND.
Masked Robbers Hold Up a Mo-
bile & Ohio Train

MOBILE, Ala, Sept. 25.-The Mobile
& Ohio south-bound mail and passenger
train was held up at $40 this morning
by train robbers at BuckatunBa, Miss, "a
station seventy miles north of Mobile.
Th1 train was due here at a. m. Just
be ore the train left Buckatunna, two
M n mounted behind the tender OF the
train and climbed over and covered En-
gineer Jack Ferrel and Fireman Thomas
Hust with their revolvers. The robbers
were disguised with red bandana hand
kerchiefs over the lower part of their
faces. The leader ordered the engineer
to pull out and to stop at the bridge two
miles below Buckt ana, and to place the
train so that the express and mail car
should be on the further side of the
bridge from the rest OF the train, the
bridge being trestle over deep creek.
You obey instructions, or it's DEATH"
he said. The engineer looked down the
barrel of the pistol and
SLOWLY PULLED THE LEVER.
The train run rapidly down to the
spot indicated and the engineer put the
train just where the man with the pistol
wanted it. Then there appeared third
robber, disguised like the other two.
These three made the engineer and fire.
man come with them to the express car,
and the engineer had to call out to Ex-
pressman John w. banning to open
the door of the car. The wooden door
was already open, but the iron barred
door was closed and locked. Dunning
was seated with his back to the door
and when he turned round he looked
down the muZzles of three revolvers.
The command was given, and Dunning
opened the barred door and in the chief
TObber jumped, the other two remain
ing outside to guard the engineer and
fireman. The leader made the mes
senger dump the contents of the safe
into canvas sack, but noticing that he
was not closely watched. Dunning
showed some of the money aside
so that about a thousand dollars
was hidden, the robbers getting
S2,7OO. All this money belonged to the
Mobile & Ohio Railroad company.
Alongside the express car door was a
pile of $4,000 government money, en-
route to Florida, which the robbers
failed to notice. Then the robbers
made the eXpreSSman get out of the car
and go with them to the mail ear. W.
c. Bell, the mail agent, had suspected
that robbery was going on, and tried to
get into the baggage car with number
of registered packages of mail. just as
he stepped to the end door of the car
he saw through the glass that the rob
berS had intercepted him. The robber
leader, supposed to be Bunch, faced
him, pistol in hand, and finding Bells
arms full of packages, said: dump
those here ON my left arm" There
were twenty-four packages in all, and
Bell dumped them as requested. The
robber then made Bell hand him reg
istered pouch and ordered the agent to
open it, but Bell had no key, so the
RoBBER CARRIED THE POUCH
off with him. The pouch was made up
at Meridian. and the contents and value
are unknown. Billy SchGles, the con-
duetor, who had been trying to find out
the trouble and had armed himself with
a Winchester, came out of the reariof the
train, waved his lantern and shouted:
stWhat's the matter?" The robbers
fred two shots at him, crying out, ,"Come
ND here and you'll see what's the mat
ter" The engineer told the rObber to
let up On shooting, as the train hands
would open fire and be shooting
their own men. There was no
more shooting, and the train was
ordered to pull out at once, which it
did, the robbers disappearing in the un-
dergrOwth on the west side OF the track.
The train pulled down to Chronicle and
swapped time with the accommodation
train, and the accommodation train en-
CINE and car was sent back to the scene
of the robbery with detectives and an
armed posse. The leader of the robbers
is man six feet high, of about 10
pounds weight, dressed in common
clothing and slouch hat. His assist
ants wore common clothing and nothing
to. distinguish them. When the hand
kerchief slipped down little off the
leaders face, the express messenger
says he saw he had black mustaehe,
and thinks he had beard.
A BIG REWARD OFFERED.
MOBILE, Ala. Sept. 25.-The Mobile
4 Ohio offers 81, 900 reward for the arrest