The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-11-18

mile, and marched them blck and forth
for ten minutes, then sent them back to
the engine. The crew mounted their en-
CINE and after a delay of half an hour
went to Milwaukee The robbers were
so frig htened at the delay that they made
no attempt to open the safes they had
thrown out. Their dynamite bombs
wrecked the car, tearing away heavy iron
plates and tossing them fifty feet away.
After the robbery the plunderers disap-
peared, while the country in that vicin-
ity was secured for them by detectives
of the railroad and of the city police of
Milwaukee.
Concerning the manner in which the
robbers did their work, Engineer
Mackey said: ave had got about a
quarter of mile north of the Western
Union junction. The fireman was put
ting in coal. Suddenly he heard a
noise and locked up. / saw there was
something wrong from the expression Of
his face. looked close by to see what
It was and / saw masked man with a
double ba relied gun in one hand and a
revolver in the other. They were
leveled at the fireman. Quicker than
could think another masked man ap-
peared aud pointed a gun and revolver
at me.
"Fireman Avcrill got his speech first
and called out: What do you want?
Throw up your hands! said the rob.
Der. Up went Averill's hands
81 asked what they wanted. None OF
your business. Well let you know soon
enough replied the man who held that
big gun and revolver pointed at me.
"The other robber handed the fireman
q cigar and said: Light IL and be quick
about it, or I'll blow your head off,
"The fireman lit it at the water glass
lamp and began comfortably putting
away at it when the robber said Give
IT to me- 1t was quickly handed to
him.
1.-THE man who held the gun at my
head said: stop her, and be quick about
IL, too. stopped her. He said: You
two get off the engine We did so.
They followed as They said go up to
the express car. We did so They said:
Get that car open l raped on the
side door There are no end doors to
those cars. They are what tramps call
blind baggage cars.
"Well, / raped, but there was no
answer from the inside. One of the
robbers left us and crawled through
under the car to the other side; the other
covered both myself and the fireman
with his shot gun and revolver. Soon
we heard terrific explosion. That was
q bomb which he had taken from his
pocket and placed on the ledge OF the
side door OF the express car.
ale soon crawled back under the car
TO u.s. lie pulled from his pocket a
bottle about eight inches long, which 1
could see as he stood close to me had
two fuses in IT. He lit the fuses from
the cigar which he was then smoking
and which he had compelled the fireman
20 light He laid tn s bottle on the ledge
OF the door and motioned us to get down
the embankment. We ran dowr. They
kept us covered all the time with the
guns 1t did not go off. He threw 1t
away. IL was picked up and is now
held by the detectives from Milwaukee.
"Hc drew another from his pocket,
lighted IL from his cigar. The other rob-
Der said Throw IL into the car lie
held IL until IL burned down pretty well.
AS | stood close TO him / trembled a
trife. as I'd sooner face the revolver
than the bomb. Then he tossed It
through the glass above the side door.
II didn't explode for twenty seconds
Then the explosion threw the glass all