Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-09-17
THIEVES WORK 4 TRAIN
Click Work Of Q Gang Of Crafty
Toughs Out West.
THEY ROB The SLEEPING COACHES
ans myers D~spsiIsd OF Their yaisa
biss while Thar sluDbsr-Ths
yaIas OF Thair haety
Exessas ef5. eco.

SALT LAKE tsiIs u H. Sept 10. -
The overland express. which left San
Francisco for the east at o'clock SAT-
urdAy night was robbed somewhere
near the Nevada line during the night
IN . strange and novel fashion. There
were three Pullman cars on the train
Zach Of these cars was sup
posed to nave . conductor in charge.
whose duty IL was. 70 watch
BY day. and q porter charged with
guarding the lives and property of the
passengers by night. The train left
Oakland with almost every berth In
every section occupied Most of the
passengers retired early. At an early
hour loud cry of Thieves, thievesl'
started the occupants of the sleeper
San Juan There was = rushing OF
feet. . throwing aside of drapery, and
La . moment the entire ear was
aroused Half-dressed men and wom-
en- sprang from the berths into
the aisles. The confusion was SO
great that for . moment no one could
say what had happened The gentle
man who had given the alarm cried ont
again that he had been robbed Then
all the others rushed TO their berths to
examine their valuables- Almost every
person in the car had lost such money
as he or she had left in his or her
clothing. A newspaper man was
plunged into gloom when he discovered
all his money gone. He had been pos
sessed OF s2.s when he retired to rest
He awoke penniless
Meanwhile a similar commotion arose
IN the Uintah- The passengers in that
car had by this time discovered that
their berths also had been ransacked
The Pullman and train conductors now
came upon the scene, and an investiga-
tiou showed that while the passengers
had slept the rear two Pullman cars had
been completely ransaeked- Some of
the passengers found the pockets of
their clothing cut and carried away
Others reported the loss of watches,
chains and lockets.
Only one conductor was employed to
take care of all three of the Pullman
ears on tho train, aud there was but
one porter TO each The porter on the
San Juan was asleep in the smoking
compartment before the train
reached Sacramento. leaving the
property of the sleeping passen-
gers at the mercy of the thieves The
car doors were not locked 1t is sup
posed that the robbers, knowing of the
negligence of the Pullman employees,
found it safer and more profitable to
sneak on board the train at some point
where the engine stopped for water
than to '.hold it up" In
the usual fashion They had
ample time between midnight
and dawn TO mako clean haul from
- least two of the cars. None of the
passengers in the Sepo lost anything.
The porter in that car remained awake
during the night. The total value of
the property lost was estimated by the
passengers at $500
ANOTHER TRAIN ROBBERY.
Sr. LOUIS, Sept IA dispatch from
Muskogee, i. T., says: The Missouri,
Kansas and Texas south bound pas
senger train was rheld mp and
the express car robbed at $50
Tuesday night at Leliaetta, 4
miles north of Wagner The
robbers covered the train officials
with their pistols and two of their num-
Der entered the express car. They or
dsred the expressman to open the large
steel safe, which he was unable to do,
and 1t took considerable arguing be-
fore he could convince the robbers
of his utter inability to comply. They
thereupon dumped the small iron
chest which contained 81, $50 out of the
express car door. and breaking it sopcn
took the entire amount. They made
no attempt to rob the passengers. and
there was but one shot fred The rob-
bers wore masks OF red flannel, and
after completing the job took to the
woods with their booty. Officers have
left Muskogee in pursuit of the rob-
har