Rock Island daily Argus., 1892-02-22
DARING DEVILTRY.
Story to Make Jesse James
Glad He's Dead.
HIS RECORD Is SIMPLY NOWHERE.

Boldest and Most Sensational Train Rob
berry Ever Recounted - The RobbS r
Wounds the Express Messenger, Defies
Capture, One Against Score, Runs fl
on an Engine, and Being Pursued At
tncks His Pursuers-A Wild Race en-
the Rail-Caught in swamp.
ROCHESTER, y. Y, Feb. 22.-Daniel Z
Mclne@ny, messenger in the employ of
the American Express company, lies at his
home on Waverly place in this city with
three bulle- wounds on his person, the re-
suit of an encounter with most desperate
train Iobber. The conductor made a
statement of the affair, which stamps it
one of the most remarkable on record and
gives the robber credit for being possessed
of nerve" enough for a regiment of his
kind. The train was the New York Cen
tral which left Syracuse yesterday morn
ing at o'clock, very nearly on time, in
charge of Conductor Emil Laass and En-
gineer Caleb Cherry
Brave Fight of the Messenger
About half an hour after the train left
Syracuse Messenger McInerny was startled
by the sound of breaking glass. Before he
could discover its cause a masked man
sprang through the broken window and
confronted him with revolver. McInerny
drew his weapon and both men fired at the
same time. Mclnerny missed his mark,
but the robber did not. His bullet pene-
trated McInerny's left hand and it was fol-
lowed by two others, one of which entered
his leg, and the other grazed his forehead
The robber knocked him senseless with the
butt of his revolver and went at the pack
ages in the cars.
The conductors statement is As follows.
Between Weedsport and Jordan Conductor
Z. Laass thought he heard the air signal
sound, but as no one else had heard it he
paid no attention to it. In few minutes
it sounded again, this time Enthusiastically,
and accompanied by Brakeman Culver he
went to the express car. Looking through
the bell rope hole he saw Il strange man
wearing red hood that covered his face
He signaled for the train to stop when the
robber looked through the car door and
ordering the conductor. with an oath, to 20
ahead fired at him. Both men spcang for
cover. and moment later the train
stopped at Port Byron
The Robber Disappears.
When the train stopped the conductor
jumped of and called the telegraph oper-
rator. While they were talking McInerny
appeared in tue door of his car and called
for help, saying that he was wounded and
was all alone in the car. On hearing this
the conductor supposed that the robber
had become frightened and left the train
while it had been running slowly. An
other messenger was put in the car to care
for the wounded man till they should
reach Lyons. The conductor and his crew
returned TO the rear coach and the train
proceeded on its way to Lyons The train
pulled into the depot at the last named
station. NicInerny was taken off and
cared for and then the train backed up TO
take water.
ReapPearance of the Robber.
The conductor remained on the depot
platform talking of the occurrence to the
station agent and to some dozen or fifteen
others who happened to be at the station
stating that he thought the robber had
left the train before reaching Port Byron,
when the agent interrupted with the re-
mark that he had seen a man jump off his
train while it was standing at the station.
As the agent made this remark he turned
around and found himself face to face
with that same individual The man had
evidently gotten off the further side of the
train while 1t stood at the station, had
walked around both train and station,
come down ths street rs if from the town.
and was now leaning coolly and carelessly
against the building