Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-02-27
A BOLD TRAIN ROBBER.
He Attacks Money Car on the New
York Central

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York Central.
When Crowd Attempts to Arrest Him
He Holds Them at Bay With Two
RevoIvers.- mt Get a Cent.
A despatch from Rochester, n. Y, says;
! he shooting of an express messenger on
New York Central and Hudson River Rail-
road train, the rfing ola valuable safe, the
fight of the robber on the engine of another
train, from which be drives the crew at the
point of revolver, running fight from the
engine cab for miles chased by another engine
filled with railway men and the final capture
Of the desperate by q shcrifls posse in
swamp after wild pursuit across the country
are some of the sensational features of the
most desperate attempt attrain robbery in the
history ofNew York's great railway.
RICH TRAIN.
Train No. 81 on the New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad is known as the
American Express Company's special. 1t
runs every day in the year between New York
and Buffalo, and carries only goods and prop.
erty shipped by that company. The express
company pays the railroad company, ofwhict
Mr. Chauneey NJ. Depew is president, many
thousand OF dollars yearly for the use of this
train, and it runs on the same time and With
the same privilege as the limited expresses
The train leaves New York at 8 o'clock each
evening. and is due in Rochester at 7:05
O'Clock in the morning. Nearly all the carr
are run through to Chicago and contain the
most valuable express matter. One car, il
known as the money" car, and in it is sent
the specie from the United States treasury for
Yves ern banks as well as the money in pro-
cess OF exchange between banks of New York
and the West. The load Of wealth sent out
from New York on thistrain is usually greater
on Saturday, and often amounts to more than
million i'll bullion, jewelry and other valu
ables. One OF the most trustful messengers OF
the company, and sometimes several, are
placed IN charge of this car, and so great il
the secrecy observed in regard to the car and
Its contents that often the crew of the train dc
not know in which car the money is carried.
Daniel 7. Mclnnery, of Rochester, was i'd
charge OF the money car on this trip.
TUE CONDUCTORS DISCOVERY.
When the train was near Weedsport the
conductor, who was in the coach with his i've
train men, thought he heard the air whistls
sound very iaintlr. 1t was enough to arouse
him to the belief that something was wrong In
the express car. Going out on the platform
of the coach he climned on the rail, and look
ing through the hole where the bell cord comes
through, he saw the upper part of mau
whose features below the eyes were concealed
by u red flannel mask. The messenger he
could not see.
The conductor went back set the air brakes
and calie / his two trainmen. he three stood
leaning out from the platform looking for
ward along the sides OF the express car. Sud
denly a man S form appeared in the side door
OF the express car. Revolver bullets whistled
by their ears and voice was heard com
manding them to signal the engineer TO GO
ahead or take the consequences. The tram.
men were unarmed. The conductor told one
OF his men to jump off, run back 10 Jordan
and telegraph along the line to Rochester that
they had a train-robber on board. This vas
done, md the conductor signaled the engine
to go ahead full speed, thinking that the rob.
Der would not dare to jump aud would be
captured at the next stop.
LOCOMOTIVE CAPTURED.
The train went to Port Byron. Here the
brakes were set again, and the conductor and
trainmen went TO the express car. Tne car
showed signs of desperate struggle. Money
packages and jeSelry were lying scattered
With blood, and Messenger McInnery was
lying bleeding from several wounds aud al
most unconscious The robber was nowhere
to be seen, and was supposed 10 have jumped
and made good his escape.
Melnnery wanted 10 be brought on TO
Rochester. A telegram for an ambulance
was sent on to Rochester and the train went
On TO Lyons, the next stop. The news had
spread all along the line by this time, and the
station at Lyons WAS all alive. Among others
in the crowd was a well-dressed young man
wearing gold eyeglasses and carryinga sHtchel
slung on strap over his shoulder. Now it 80
happened that the trulnmen had noticed this
young man at the station at Syracuse before
the train pulled out, and they had not seen
him since, and the question of what he was
doing at Lyons and how he got there at once
suggested itself An attempt was made to
seize him, but he pulled out two revolyers
held the crowd back and backed across the
yard unit he reached coal train, the engine
OF which had steam up ready to pull out for
the West. lie pulled the pin holding the
tender TO the first car, climbed over the coal
into the cab drove the engineer and fireman
out with his revolvers and started the engine.
A BATTLE ON WHEELS.
Conductor Laass and one of the switchmen
procured shotgun, freed the engine of the
express, and with the fireman and engineer,
started in pursuit of the iugative. 1t will be
remembered that the Central Hudson is
tour-:racked road, and the two engines, both
going West were not on the same track.
The express engine soon overlook the
robber, who suddenly reversed his engine and
let his pursuers pass him, pouring perfect
trail OF pistol bullets into the cab as his
pursuers went by. Then the pursuers stopped
and the pursued went ahead. Another
artillery duel ensued the shotgun taking part
this time. No one was hurt III either battle.
THE HIGHwAYMAS TAKES TO HORSES.
About two miles beyond the robber found
his engines steam was giving out, so he
jumped of at a cross-road and started across
the country, going south. He managed 10
terrorize farmer into letting him have
horse, and rode on about two miles further
south. Here he procured horse aud cutter.
inducing their owner, German farmer, to
entrust them to him by firing on him.
The purity on the express engine had re.
turned to Lyons where the sheriff OF Wayne
county had organized posse, which, under
command of Deputy Sheriff Collins, started
III pursuit. Meantime the farmers along the
robbers line OF retreat had also turned out,
fully armed, in pursuit.
CAPTURED IN A SWAMP
The runaway was sighted about five miles
south of Newark. The roads were very bad
and he had made poor speed. lie abandoned
his rig and started across TO Penton's swamp,
but the swamp proved too full of water TO
be penetrated, and the iugstive took up his
position behind IL stone wal and faced his
pursuers.
After some pariey he surrendered to Deputy
Sheriff Collins lie was taken back to Lyons
and lodged IN Jail. He gave the name OF VIM
Cross said he was from New Mexico and had
been boarding IN Syracuse tor some time. lie
admitted that he was the mann who attempted
the train robbery to Chief Of Dete, lives
Hayden, Of this city, who bad been wired
TOR. He is believed TO be tie much-wa
Oliver Curtis Perry, who robbed Express
Messenger Moore. near Utica, last fall.
THREE MEN KILLED.
Fatal Accident In the Nelson Bush Ore
Mine at Arnold Hill, N y.