Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-26
TWO ROBBERS KILLED.
Vengeance 0Eertakes a Couple of
the Florida Express Bandits.
SHOT BY DETERMINED PURSUERS.
The Third Member of the Gang Being
Chased With Bloodhounds.
wRITTENFAREwELL OF ONE DESPERATE

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPAroH.l
| JACKSONVILLE, FLA, May 25.-At
P. M. to-day two of the gang that held up
| the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
Railway train last Saturday and killed Ex-
| press Messenger Saunders were killed at
Buffalo Bluff railroad bridge, four miles
south of here, by posse from this place,
and at this writing bloodhounds and a full
posse of men are after the third mem Der OF
the gang.
Shortly after noon hatless negro stag
gered into the Court House and said: "Come
| to Buffalo Bluff! Robbersp Deputy
Sheriff Dyson aroused his posse and
special train soon left with them.
At 11:3O A. M. George Wurtz and
7. H. Wigg, the guards placed at Buffalo
Bluff bridge, saw the three men coming
from the south on the railroad track. As
the first passed three feet ahead of the 9TH
ers, the guards called Glands upr' and the
first one obeyed. The second and third
drew their revolvers, and the guards knew
that the desperate robbers were within five
feet of them.
The firing began by the robbers, and a
bullet grazed Wigg. Wurtz fired his shot
gun, loaded with buckshot, and Williams
fell. The bullets plowed holes in the little
bridge where Wurtz had leaped for his re-
volver. The man in advance then ran
toward Palatka. The other man ran back
ward and was shot in the leg by Wurtz
Determined Men on the Trail.
An engine load of young men composed
the Special" and among them was DR..
Benjamin E. Morgan and Mr.. Willard, of
the express company. This now arrived
had taken to the swamp. They pursued
him and suddenly ball ripped through DR..
Morgan's vest. He saw the obber behind
fallen tree, and fired his shotgun, loaded
with buckshot, and with struggle Saun-
ders' murderer had met his doom.
The bodies were laid on the bridge, and
afterward brought into town on a passing
freight train. In the car lay the chastity
bodies, accompanied by the guards who had
shot Williams, and by Superintendent
Myers, who happened at the bridge about
the time of the occurrence. The big muir
derer's name and thoughts as he heard the
guards coming, and knew that he was about
to die, are interesting. Here they are, as
they were written on the back of map as
the culprit lay behind tree:
DEAR MoTHER-The time has come when
you and shall part, and hope you will not
grteve after me, for have no fear I would
write more, but have not time. Kiss the
children for me, and tell them to do better
than have done and they will live longer
than have. Farewell, dear mother Send
this to Susan Bedgood, Arabi, Dooly county,
Ga. never expect to give up a thing, and
ask you to send me home to Arab, Ga. So
with this, I close forever. Please send my
body to Arabi, Ga.
Desperate and Cruel-Lookius Man.
On him was found piece of bacon, and
on Williams an oilcloth hat taken from a
fisherman last night. Williams face Is
desperate and cruel-looking, and some recog-
nize him as fiagman on the j., T. & XIV.
road. "Black Diamond" porter of j. & T.
train, said he was the man who halted him
Saturday morning when he came forward
to the express car. He had J., T. & X.
w. pencil and cents in money in his
pocket. The murderer of Saunders had his
face covered with gore, and his face and
mouth blackened with powder. He said
that being desperately wounded he shot
himself in the mouth with his pistol.
By the side of the car stood the tall form
his prediction made several days ago that
posse with deer hounds and residents of
Myers and party are
going on special to their assistance. A
capture is almost certain. 1t is expected
every minute.
Buffalo Bluff and Penial are about miles
from here, and this city is of course in a
great state of excitement.