The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-09-22

bers are congregated in the swamps %
northern Indiana. and has several
shcriffs' posses securing the counties
on all sides of the scene OF the rob
berry. Capt. Ilartnett, Of the Harrison
street station, sent out twenty men to
search incoming trains on the Lake
shore road. as far ms Thirty-hrst street,
the boundary of his district The ma
jority of these men aue in citizens at
tire.
II should not be surprised bit IL
when these men are arrested IL is found
that every one of them belong hero
in Chicago" said Capt Harnett. Dis
tricts south Of Thirty street are
also being closely watched and all In
coming trains from the vicinity OF
Kendallville receive the attention OF
the police.
Lieut.. Barrett Of the Twenty-second
street police station has eighteen men
patroling the territory from Sixteenth
street south.
Capt. Powers, of the South Chicago
police, made preparations to intercept
any OF the robbers who might come
to the city. Officers in citizens clothes
were sent TO the bridges across tho
Calumet river at Seventy-second.
Ninety-fifth and One Hundred and
Sixth streets, with instructions to
carefully watch all incoming trains at
these points.
President Newall, about noon, or
dered that about 10000 posters be
printed offering a reward Of $1,000 for
the capture and conviction of the rob-
bers, and that they be scattered broad
Cast over the country. He also ordered
that advertisements offering the same
reward be published in all local news
papers along the line of the Lake Shore
road between Elkhart, Ind, and To-
ledo, o.
The only witness of the scene who
reached Chicago yesterday was Byron
Il. Hamblin, Just as he alighted from
the train in Chicago, Mr.. Hamblin told
the following story:
m. NJ. Weiss, the express messenger
on the run. and myself had just about
finished checking up our way bills. 1t
was nearly midnight, and we had just
passed the little station of Kessler,
when we felt the train first slow up
and then stop. just then there came
heavy pounding on the door of our car,
which was closed. Thinking some
thing had happened about which the
conductor wished to inform us,
opened the door. AS did SO l
saw two men standing on the
ground beside the car. One of them
Yelled Throw up your hands," and
before could move he pointed
| a rife at me and fred. / saw the mo-
ton of the gun and threw myself to
| one side and the flash from the gun
almost blinded me. / managed to
slam the doors shut and bolted them.
| Then some one on the outside com.
menced smashing the doors with q
sledge. They kept this up for min
ute or two and then stopped. Sud
denly there came an explosion that
seemed to us inside as IL bomb
had been thrown against the door.
A moment later there was an
other explosion that blew the
door open and almost blew the
car from the track. Before we could
extricate ourselves from under the
baggage, several men had climbed
into the train. One fellow covered me
; with a Winchester rife and told me Il
moved he would blow my head OF
Another fellow kept Weiss covered IL
the same way. They searched Weiss'ant
for keys to the safe, but could not FIND
any land they commenced to believ'
us when we told them that the safe
was opened by men in the Office at thu
end Of the run.
Then they set to work to open thu
safe. They knocked of the knob o
the door and then they began to drill
holes in it. 1t took them what scenes
hours to do this, while Weiss and
were compelled to sit with the muzzle
Of the rifles at our heads. The drilling
seemed slow work for the fellows
They talked but little. A small. stou
man, who seemed to be the leader, di
rected the work. Finally they go
through drilling and forced the doc
open. The man who seemed to be tn
leader of the gang took the none
packages and handed them out to
J fellow who stood outside of tho car
and who ran into the woods when b
got the money"