The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-14
TRAIN . ROBBERS BAFFLED
Two Masked Men Meet with Resistance
in an Attempt 10 Hold Up Passengers.
Desperate Fight on a Chesapeake & Ohio Train
in West Virgiuia-0ne Man Killed and o
Robber Probably Wounded.

HUNTINGTON, w. Va. Dec. 1s.-One of
the most daring attempts at train robbery
ever heard of took place here last night.
East bound vestibule train No. 4. on the
Chesapeake & Ohio railroad. arrived a lit
tie after midnight. At the station two
men. closely masked and wearing wigs.
boarded the train. AS soon as 1t started
they entered the first passenger coach, one
at each entrance, and, presenting revolv-
ers, deman ded the surrender of all money
and vsluables. One of them encountered
q German named Oscar Teck. who was
soon to be married. He refused 10 deliver
and showed fight. The masked men shot
him. the ball. from q heavy navy revolver.
striking him In the face. producing q
fatal wound. Captain Samuel Matheson.
of Charleston. the passenger In the next
seat, jumped M, and; graphing with tno
robber, succeeded III knocking both rovolv-
ers out of his hand. The robDer seeing mis-
d~Isadvantage jerked the bell rope, and the
engineer slowed up SO he could Jump OH. The
robber In the other end met with resist
ance from tIcke collector Riggs, who.
opened fire on him. and just as his confed-
crate leaped off the train at one end hc got
of at the other. In the darknes both es-
capped. The German died o. his injuries at
Charleston. Another PASSENGER was
wounded painfully In the arm by a stray
bullet. One of the robbers was shot In the
shoulder by the ticket collector.
Chesapeake IL Ohio special officers, with
others from Wheeling, alleRe that the rob-
bers were members Of q gang OF thieves
who have been operating among the resi-
dences of this vicinity. and that they tailed
to measure up to the requirements OF sue
cessfully robbing a train Is shown In tile
fact that few of the passengers lost any
- ltx4 4. ~ 4a.a nra nd tfn ~ n an
hunt policy in working. up this case. and
there is little TO be added to the story un-
Til the robbers ere unprecedented. IL they
are. An oyercOat and mask dropped by
the fugitive robbers was found at the pom.
got of in o broker country they Will be
taken with difficulty.
Bulwer Farger, who lives within O mile
of where the robbers left the train. says he
was aroused by noises outside his house
that caused him to 90 out to investigate.
1t was then about Q O'Clock in the morn
ing, aud, as Farger stepped outside the
door, he was fired ON by two men. he was
shot in the shoulder, and his arm was
broken. He ran into the house. and no
attempt was made to modest him fur.
Their. Such is Farger's story. The chief of
police, however, after careful investigation,
has come to the conclusion that there are
enough suspicious circumstances connect
ed with the reported attempted assas-
sinatiOn of t'arger to warrant the belief
that the affair was q fake" and that he is
one of the robbers. Captain Matheson
came down from Charleston late this even
ing and went to see Farger at his home. lie
is asserted that he positively identified
Farger as the man with whom he grappied
in the car. AT any rate, HE mouse Is guard
ed and his arrest will be made tomorrow.
Farger worked In the Chesapeake 81 Ohio
shops, and came here from the South about
two months sgo. At police headquarters 1t
is said his confederate Is known and Is
Swallowed.
One of the witnesses of the atfray on the
car says there was no indication that
either of the would be train-robbers was
winged" In the fight. IL is said tonight
that the railroad company announces q
reward of So. 200 for the apprehension of
either or both the men who tried to hold up
the train.
at Q o'clock tonight the detectives ar
rested Farger. The appearance OF Farger
tallies almost in every detail with the de-
Conductor zimmerman says that he got
ont OF the door Just as the men were getting
off and fired at the big one. He said tie
fellow uttered an and clapped
his left hand or his right shoulder, which
is the location of the wound Farger says
he got in his own doorway.
A dispatch from Cincinnati says: Miss
Anna Eichler arrived here tonight with
the dead body OF OscarTeck. her betrOthed
husband. who was killed near Huntin gton.
w. Va, by train-robbers to-day. She Is so
distracted by grief that she is unable to
give an account of the robbery. She is
stopping with her uncle. Henry Eichler, on
McMIckin avenue, this CITY,"