Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-23
SINGLE HANDED
A Dare Devil Desperate At
tempts to Get in His Work
On an Express Train on the
Central Hudson Road.

He shoots a Messenger, Deiies the Crowd
and Escapes on Freight Engine-Pur-
sued ON Another Engine--A Running
Baltic While Going at Lightning
speed-Captured After Long Chase.
ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Feb. 23.-The
most desperate attempt at train robbery
in the history of the Central Hudson
railway occurred near Weedsport Sun
day morning.
Train No. 8 ON the Central Hudson is
known as the American Express COM
pany's special, and often carries money
and valuables amounting to over 81 ,000,-
600. 1t leaves New York ut o'clock
each evening, and is due in this city at
7:05 o'clock in the morning.
When the train was near Weedsport
it stopped, and suddenly mans fern
appeared at the side door of the express
car, and whistling bullets in all direc-
tions accompanied his appearance. The
conductor was commanded to signal the
engineer to GO ahead at full speed. This
he did, and the train went to Fc"t
Byron where it again stopped, and the
conductor and trainmen went to take
look at the express car.
The Messenger wounded.
The car showed signs Of desperate
struggle Express Messenger Mclnerncy
was lying on the floor, bleeding from
several wounds and in an unconscious
condition.
BY this time the news had spread all
along the line, and the station at Lyons
was full of people.
Among the crowd was young man
carrying a sachel, on whom suspicion at
once centered.
Deficd the Crowd and Escaped.
An attempt was made to seize him,
but with a revolver in each hand he held
the crowd at bay. Backing across the
station yal1 until he reached a coal
train, the engine of which had steam
up, he pulled the pin holding the tend,4.
to the first car, got into the cab drove
the engineer and fireman out with his
revolvers, pulled open the throttle and
away he went ON the engine.
A Remarkable Chase.
The conductor, switchman, engineer
and fireman of the express train disen-
gagged the engine from the rest OF the
train, and, having procured shotgun
from the station house, started IN pur-
suit. Then began one of the most thrill
ing and remarkable robber chasings on
record.
Deserts the Chase.
The express engine soon overlook the
robber, and, being on parallel tracks
when they came close, an artillery fire
ensued, the shotgun taking part this
time. No one was hurt. Two miles
out the robber reversed his engine, then
stopped it and jumped off at cross
road.
He terrorized a farmer into letting
him have horse, and having ridden
the animal about two miles further
south, secured a horse and cutter and
went south of Newark.
Finally Caught.
Meanwhile Deputy Sheriff Collins and
posse had Gtarted from Lyons. They
caught up it'll the desperate five miles
from Newark, and after some parley he
surrendered.
He gave his name as William Cross,
said he was from New Mexico, and had
been living Il Syracuse for some time.
He is supposed to be Oliver Curtis
Perry, the cowboy who robbed Express
Messenger Moore near Utica last fall.
He secured absolutely nothing.
Looks Like Orth Stein.
A dispatch from st. Louis says the de-
scription of the man who attempted TO
rob the express car tallies to the letter,
glasses and all, with that of Orth Stein.
Stein is one Of the most notorious crimi-
nails of the country. He Is a newspaper
man. and worked on the st. Louis Globe
Democrat He is bright man and
consummate scoundrel. He killed man
at Kansas City and has been up, time
and again, for forgery, confidence games
and robbery. Stein has recently lived
in Atlanta, where he was regarded as
having completely reformed his ways.
He was employed on the Atlanta Con-
stitution.
Identified as Perry.
The man who tried to rob the Ameri-
can express car has been identified by
J. B. Prentiss, agent of the express com
pany here, as Berry, who committed
the robbery on an express car near Utica
several months ago.
Mc1nerney the messenger, is suffer-
ing severely from his bullet wounds and
is kept under the influence of anasthet-
les.
Is Not Orth Stein.
ATLANTA, Feb. 23.-Orth Stein, who
is engaged in journalism here, is in tho
city aud has not been absent recently.
THE INDIANAPOLIS HOLOCAUST.
The Coroner Holds the Victims RESPONSE
BILE for Their Own Deaths.
TNpIANApoIJa Feb 23 --- Cnronar