The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-03-16
FIGHTING BURGLARS
4 Pitched Battle on d Moving Train
in Delaware.
ONE OF THE MIscREAETs KILLED.

The Other Three Jumped from the
Train and Escaped. but One Was
subsequently Captured and Taken
20 the Jail at Dover.
DOVER, Del, March To- While Rail
road Detective Hutchins and Policemen
Smith and Lockerman were in the Del
aware railroad station four men, sup
posed to be the burglars who blew open
five safes in Milford ON Sunday night,
entered and bought tickets for VIII
mington. When the Norfolk express
arrived the four men got into the smok-
ing car. The officers also got into the
car. After the train had got under way,
and was running thirty miles an hour,
Detective Hutchins approached one Of
the men, who was sitting by himself,
and said: II want you. There is no
use trying to get away now AS he
said this Hutchins pointed revolver at
the mans head
Like a flash the man struck the Off
GERS arm and threw it up, the revolver
dropping from his hand. With the
other hand the man knocked Hutchins
over. Then the man began to shoot ut
the detective. Conductor Lewis entered
the car and told the man to cease firing
or he would pull the bell cord One of
the other men at once covered Lewis
and kept him in a corner of the car.
Several shots were exchanged, and the
eight or ten passengers lodged behind
seats. The four men finally got on the
platform of the car and more shots were
exchanged, Officer Smith being shot
through the hand.
dumped from the Train.
Three of the thieves crowded out OF
the front door. They drove Lockerman
ON to the platform of the forward car
with their revolvers. The three men
then jumped from the rapidly moving
train. In the melee the front door got
closed against the fourth man Quick
as lightning he opened the door of the
toilet room and locked it after him.
Officer Smith went outside and clam
bered along the coach as the train
rushed along, got his pistol hand inside
the toilet room and commenced firing at
the desperate man within. The man
Immediately returned the fire, putting a
bullet through Smiths hand. The off,
Ger then retired. He already had a
wound under his right eye, and his
clothing had been shot through.
Burglar No. A had not been hurt, al
though Officer Smith claims that he
heard him fall heavily against the door
aftera shot, The thief, with courage
born of desperation, crowded himself
through the window of the toilet room
and made reckless plunge from the
car. While all the shooting was going
on the train hands were invisible. The
| whole ARRAY only lasted a few minutes.
| When the passengers emerged from
their hiding places they found evidence
of the conflict in broken window glass
and splintered wood work.
The man wounded was found under q
Clayton fodder stack, and was taken to
the county Jail at Dover. where he died
at 8 o'clock last night. He was recog-
mixed as James Burns, q Wilmington
baseball player. He had wonderful
nerve, never moaned or uttered com
plant, and absolutely refused to talk to
thetend. He had $50 in his pocket. He
refused to see clergyman. The men are
described as ranging in age from 20 to
"a years.
Late yesterday afternoons train crew
captured another of the burglars below
New Castle and brought him here,
where he was locked up.