Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-09-28
Train Robbers Routed.
TWO OF THE DEArERAn0Es KiLL-
ED AND ThREE W6usDEp.
They Tackle Cars FILLED With feiiee--
A Daring lab ON the eoaaeii Biuhs
Read Near ~. Joe Thnarted.

sr, JosErH. Mo-, Sept. a5.-The
Council Bluffs road ioiled an at.
to rob one OF Its passenger
trains, killed two of the bandits and
captured three others one and o half
miles irem this city, this morning.
The dead are Ed. Kohler and
Hugo JUDAH.
The captured men are named
Frederick, Hersch and Harvey.
Train No. 3 was the intended
victim. 1t leit Kansas City at 8 :O5
Sunday night and arrived here at
II 80 this morning.
The officials of the road had been
notified that a robbery had been
planned and they notified the police.
When. the train arrived here a dunn
my train was made up and 16 po-
lice officers, under command of the
Chief of Police, were put aboard.
In order to thoroughly deceive the
robbers the train was made an exact
duplicate of train No. 8 and consist
ed of an engine and tender, an ex-
press and baggage al and the usual
coaches and Pullmans.
When the dummy reached a point
two miles north of st. Joseph the
engineers attention was arrested by
a lighted lantern moving to and fro
between the rails. He obeyed the
signal and six masked men sur
rounded the engine.
One of the six men mounted the
engine and presented a revolver at
the engineers head and another at
the fireman's, holding them in sub
lection while the other five men
fastened to the express a r
They ordered the messenger to
open the door, which he did forth
with. Three of the bandits at once
entered the car, leaving two without
to keep guard. The policemen who
were guarding the train were dis
tributed in the various cars, the
majority of them being concealed in
the express car. Immediately the
three bandits who had undertaken
the work of robbing the a entered
the door and the police within
ordered them to surrender.
The robbers were taken complete
ly by surprise, but they opened fire
at once on the police. The police
returned the fire and a general fusi'
lade followed. About 25 shots were
fired on both sides. When the
smoke cleared away the l~ifeless
bodies of Kohler and JUDAH were
found.
Both had been shot through the
head. The bullet wnich pierced
Kohler's head produced instant
death. He never stirred after he
was hit. JUDAH was still breathing
hard, but he died in a few moments
Frederick, the third robber engaged
in the fight in the car was uninjur
ed and was placed under arrest
None OF the police were injured.
While the fight was going or il
the a those of the police not en-.
gagged in it were looking after the
: two robbers who had been left out
side to keep watch.
The police quickly took them in
and placed them under arrest. The
bandit who had been detained to
guard the engineer and fireman
quickly realized the situation when
he heard the battle going on in the
express car and promptly made his
escape.
A detail of officers was put on his
track and quickly took up the pur.
suit, with every prospect of captur.
ing the fugitive before Dawn. A re.
markable feature of the fight in the
express car was the escape of all the
officers from injury.
The three robbers in the car were
each armed with a brace of revolvers
and used them freely, but still they
did no damage.
The bodies of Kohler and JUDAH
were brought here on the dummy
train, which returned to the city
soon after the encounter. They were
taken to an undertaken. The pris-
oners, Frederick, Hirsch and Harvey,
were brought here on the same train
with their dead comrades and were
locked up at the police station. All
J Of the train robbers lived here.