The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-11

/ slowly away from where ] stood ! crept
as l supposed, unseen to the car which
was attached to the engine, and which
also proved TO be the express car When
/ got on the front platform l found
tramp there stealing ride and j asked
him if he wanted to make some money
easy, and he said yes. Then told him |
was going. to rob the train and wanted
him to assist me in carrying out my
plans, The tramp became excited and
quickly responded No. and the only
thing for me to do then was to hold II up
myself, as had planned to do in the first
place.
1.-THE train was now going very rapidly,
and l at once placed my handkerchief
mask over my face, and with the two re-
Volvers, one in each hand, climbed over
the tender of the engine. As Twas climb
ing l found that my mask was not per
feet one and was shutting off my sight. ]
said to myself this will never do, as /
want to have my eyes open, so / pulled
the handkerchief down as far as my nose,
and in this way crept over the coal to-
ward the engine cab. When / got near
the cab the door of the boiler was open,
and the light that came from it
shone right in my face. ] found
the fireman shoveling coal into the
boiler, and when he saw me /
threw my pistol down on him and told
nothing, but looked his surprise. The
engineer was not yet aware of my pres
ence, and l was only waiting for the
engine TO come to the place where had
put my valise before ] would call upon
him to bring his engine to halt. How
in the world ! ever did it, but mistudged
the spot where the valise was and threw
my revolvers upon the engineer and told
him to stop his engine or would blow his
head off He complied with my request,
and when the engine was brought 20
standstill | ordered both engineer and
fireman out of the cab. They did as l re-
quested and when all three of us reached
the ground / marched them up to the ex-
press car.
II then took the package of dynamite
out of my pocket and coolly unwrapped
the paper and took one stick of dynamite
out. | did not wait for the express
messenger to say that he would not open
the door, but called out for him to open
il, and / guess before he had time to make
any kind of a reply | had applied the
match to the dynamite and it had got in its
work Before could get the fuse to burn
] was compelled to strike several matches,
all of them blowing out on me. The
fourth match, however, did the work all
right. AS soon as the explosion occurred
/ at once fired four shots in the air, not
for the purpose of hitting anyone, but
merely to frtghten the passengers and
make it appear as if was more than one
man.
Immediately following the explosion
one of the men in the car, which after
ward proved to be the express messenger,
appeared at the door with appraised hands
and jumped onto the ground and at once
moved up to where ! had stood the engi-
neer and fireman. / then quickly sprang
into the car, holding revolver in each
hand, and as | Strengthened up from my
STOPPING position was confronted by
man, much to my surprise, as l thought
that the car contained only one man.
This fellow, however, was The baggage
man, and he said nothing, but appeared
frightened. ] ordered him to open the
safe, and he told me he was the baggage
man and that the express messenger was
on the ground. / then called for the
messenger. He climbed back into
the car, opened the safe door,
and after / took all the packages
out could find picked up the three bags
of silver and threw them out of the car
onto the ground, intending to carry them
off. The envelopes and packages placed
in my coat and pants pockets, and then 1
sprang to the ground and ordered one of
the men, I think the engineer, to place
the sacks on my shoulders. l intended to
carry all of them of. When he placed
one of the sacks on my shoulder that was
enough weight for me, and then laughed