The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-12

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men. with nothing particular to Dustin
guish either one Of them The robbery was
very quickly done. and the express messen-
ger did not take much time to study the
appearance Of the men before him.
NOT BELIEVED TO BE RAILROAD MEN.
1t is not thought the robbers were rail-
road men. one reason being that the rail-
road men who robbed the express car on
the Central railroad at Collier, above
Macon, short while ago We're so quickly
apprehended that since then trainmen,
who might have had some inclination that
way. have felt Sigh. temptation to such
work. Railroad men would have
known better than to rob last
nights train, when they were likely to
secure 50 little for their work, but would
have picked out night when they knew
that heavy remittances we're being made.
II they had struck one of the trains bring
ing down the money to pay off the Central
railroad employees with recently they might
have made a rich haul. They would
have known that the express com
pany's remittances on Saturday night
are much heavier than on Friday
night, as collections are made Saturday and
remittances are made that night
MAY HAVE BEEN CoUNTRYMEN.
The robbers may have been countrymen
living near the line OF railroad who had an
idea that the express carried large sums of
money every night and that they would get
large sum By robbing any train. II they
had been better POSTED they would have
chosen a night when larger remittances
were likely to be on board.
1t is believed by the police and detectives
that the robbery was the work of shrewder
and holder men. 1t was certainly bold
robbery, and the railroad and express COM
panies will spare no efforts to capture the
robbers.
Being done 50 close 90 Savannah, 1t is
more than likely that they will head this
way, and everybody will have an eye upon
every suspicious character that comes TO
town.
A special train carrying Agent Wilkin-
son of the Central railroad, and Agent
Cooper of the express company and several
Of the employees OF the railroad and express
companies left the Central railroad shed at
2 o'clock this morning for the scene of the
robbery. Another train with the detectives
and officers was expected TO leave about 30
o'clock, with hounds to track the robbers.
FROM ALONG THE ROAD.
MORNING NEWS specials from Halcyon-
dale ami Millen give, in substance, the
same story of the robbery as that obtained
in Savannah.
A Halcyondale special says: "Train No.
3 out OF Savannah tonight was held up
by two masked robbers at the five>mile
post and the express messenger was
relieved of two bags of money.
As described by the sleeping car
porter, who saw them leap from the trein,
the men were white and were slender
built and rather tall. They discharged
their pistols to frightea the crew and pas
seugers and then disappeared in the dark.
ness"
A Millen special says: 1.-THE express mes
senger on Central train No. 8 said two men
came in on him near five-mile post with
pistols and fired twice at him and demanded
the keys to his safe. lie gave them his
keys. The robbers took the Augusta and
Atlanta pouches and several valuable
packages. The messenger could not esti-
mate the sum secured"
ALL SORTS OF RUMoRs.
The rumors of the robbery were all over
town last night, large suus being named as
the amount of the loss by the
railroad company and the express COM
pany. No one seemed to know anything
more than that there had been bold rob
berry committed, but it furnished the hotels.
restaurants and saloons a subject for talk
the rest of the night.
| The police and dete tives
think If they had been notified
sooner and the train officials, instead of
waiting until they had got seventeen
miles from Savannah before tele-
graphing the information, had
sent word at once from the scene of the
robbery they might have got on the track
of the robbers with little trouble.
Agent Cooper was seen at O'Clock this
morning. He said the total amount of
money secured, if the robbers had got all
there was in the car. would have been very
small. The pouches contained simply cor
respondence and small remittances. The
large remittances are forwarded by the day
trains to preclude the possibility of their
loss by robbery or otherwise.
LATER.
a.. M.-The special has re urned to the
city. The detectives found fresh footprints