Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-09-16
ANOTHER BIG HAUL.
Train Robbers Do a Very Successful
Job in Michigan.
$4,000, ALL IN CURRENCY, TAKEN
The Money Was to Have Been
Used to Pay the Copper Miners
To-day Posses Out Securing
the Country in All Directions.
Four Sporting Men, Of Whom
One is Jack King, Arrested.

HoUGHToN, Mich, September IS
The express car OF the Mineral Range
passenger train which left Hancock at
9 o'clock this morning for Calumet was
'held up" and robbed by bandits half
mile from Boston Station about half an
hour later.
The robbers secured SIS, 900 In cash,
money intended for the employees OF the
Calumet and Hecla copper mine, for
whom tomorrow was pay day. The
money was drawn this morning from the
First National Bank Of Houghton and
the Superior Savings Bank Of Hancock.
The express car was in charge OF
Messenger D. w. Hogan and there was
no special guards. The money was
not, according to the usual practice,
paid the day before pay day at the big
mine, and it was thought there were no
train robbers daring enough to make a
raid on the valuable treasure in broad
daylight.
1t might well be supposed that in the
train robbery in Indiana, the first OF the
week, the acme Of such daring exploits
was reached, but it remained for to-day
to demonstrate that train can be stop
ped and robbed with impunity in the
broad light Of day and with little or no
attempt at disguise by the men who
successfully accomplished the deed.
The train was going along at the
usual speed and wrs within five miles OF
a little station called Boston, five miles
from here, when a man stepped into
the middle Of the track and tagged the
train.
The engineer quickly applied the
brakes, no thought Of train robbers en-
tering his mind. The man disappeared
behind the station house, and as the
train stopped two women passengers
got out.
At that moment two men jumped on
the locomotive, pointed a revolver at
the engineer and told him to stop. The
engineer thought he was foolng or
was crazy, but the gun went off, the
ball whizzing past SchultZ's left ear,
aud the engineer knew be was at the
mercy OF desperate man.
The fellow pushed the engineer into
the corner of the cab and grabbed the
air brake lever. He opened the throt-
tie slightly, showing perfect familiarity
in handling the engine.
Fireman Sutherland jumped out OF
the cab window and was met by two
more OF the robbers, who came from In
front OF the engine and fired at him, or
dering him back on the engine on pain
of instant death. The fireman had no
alternative but to obey.
Two more robbers had in the mean
time got into the front end of the ex-
press car, and with sledge smashed in
the car door.
Express Messenger Holman then tells
his story:
"I was sitting In my chair" be said,
with my feet on a box singing when l
heard a crash, and looking up saw a
masked man covering me with two re-
volvers aud ordering hands up
There was another man just behind
him. l threw up my hands mighty
oulck and the robbers took my gun
away. Then they demanded the keys OF
the safe. l pretended to be looking for
the right key when they threatened TO
kill me. I then opened the safe and
took out the four packages OF currency
and one OF the robbers scOoped them in-
TO bag he carried. Backing out OF the
car door again they fired two shots evil
IDENTIFY as signal 10 the robber on the
train who ordered the engineer to go
on, saying: you will find rail pnlled
up about three miles ahead.
The robbers leaving the train passed
TO the rear OF it and disappeared In the
woods. The one who had the treasure
waved his hands at the passengers,
who were ignorant OF what had taken
place. So quickly was the robbery COM
pleted.
Among the passengers were the Hon.
E. d. Ryan aud Attorney Looney, and
Teller Fish, Of the First National Bank
OF Hancock, was In the coach with
$40, 600 in currency in his pockets, but
the robbers did not know 1t.
As soon as the train arrived at Calu-
met the Calumet and HeclS company
sent nearly 100 deputy sheriffs in every
direction in chase. Sheriff Dunn also
sent deputies out from Houghton, and
tug boats were sent along the lake
shore to cut off escape by water.
Every road was closely guarded. The
loss by the robbery falls on the Ameri-
can Express Company, which has or
dered the best detectives from Chicago
tonight.
Engineer Schuler says the voices OF
the robbers on, the locomotive were
familiar 10 him. A large revolver and
a leather strap were found near the
spot where the robbers left the train.
The sledge hammer they had with them
was left on the car.
The widest excitement prevails
throughout the country, as this is the
first train robbery in the history of the