The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-16
WOLVERINE BANDITS.
An Express Train Robbed Of Seventy-Five
Thousand Dollars.

HANCOCK, Mich, Sept. 15.-A train on
the Mineral Range railway WAS held up
between here and Calumet by four masked
men this morning, and robbed of SI5G00
of Calumet and Hecla mine money. NO
blood was shed.
The scene of the robbery is on the Min
.,ral Range railroad, narrow gauge road
ruhning between Houghton and Calumet
with branches extending to several smaller
mines. The Calumet ana Hecla mine
gives employment to about 2,C00 men.
The company pays its men about the 10Th
Of each month, and the money taken to-
dav was sent from eastern banks by the
company. The men who committed the
robbery were evidently acquainted with
the manner in which the Calumet and
Hecla company paid its men and the day
Oh Which the money is usually shipped.
The robbery occurred at $50 O'Clock. The
engineer and fireman Were covered with
revolveTs by two of the robbers, while the
other two ordered the express messenger
to put the contents of his safe into bag
which one of the robbers carried The
messenger complied and handed OUT some
S75, 600 consigned 10 The mine company,
Securing the booty; the robbers fired a few
shots and ordered the engineer TO 10
ahead d your' which he did. Iie
whole affair was such a surprise that the
passengers knew nothing OF the trouble
until after the train had started. The
sheriff and his deputies are ort securing
The country. 1t is thought that the rob
bers had horses near and boat ready at
the lake, from which point they would
make for Canada. The train was loaded
with passengers.
Jack King "a wrestler. and Jack kehoe.
o sport who have been in the vitnuy for
some time. We're arrested on suspicion of
being connected with the plot.
The men arrested were placed under
SO 600 bail and lodged in Jail.
On the train were three moneyed men,
who had $4,000 in their possession, but
neither OF them WAS disturbed. Express
Messenger Hogan tells the following
story:
Il WAS sitting in my chair when l heard
a crash, and looking that way saw a
masked man covering me with revolvers
and ordering hands up. There was an
other man just behind him. | threw up
my hands mighty quick, and the robbers
took my gun away. Then they de-
manded the key of the safe. |
pretended to be looking for the right
key, when they threatened to kill me if
didn't hurry up. L then opened the safe
and took out four packages of currency,
and one of the robbers scooped them into
n bag he carried. Backing ont OF the
car door. they fired two shots, evidently
ss signal to the robbers Oh the train,
who ordered the engineer to 20 on. The
passengers were ignorant of what had
taken place till after the train had started,
so quickly was the robbery completed"
Engineer Shulier says that the voice of
the robber on the locomotive was familiar
TO him.
The loss by the robbery falls on the
American Express company, which has
ordered the best detectives here from
Chicago to work on the case The robbery
does not interfere with the paying off of
the miners. as the banks in this county
have loaned all the funds needed for that
purpose. The widest excitement prevails |
as this is the first train robbery in the his |
tory of the copper region.