The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-28
CHASE OF THE ROBBERS.
Believed 10 Have Covered Their
Tracks at Every Point.

No Telling Where They Left the En-
CINE and They May Have Taken a
Wagon-Superin tendent Myers on
the FieId-The Robbers Missed a
$50, 900 Haul-The Express Com
pany win Hunt Them Down Until
They Are Caught.
The train robbers are still at large aud
it is believed by this time are making
their ways rapidly 10 places of security
There is no doubt that they adopted
every means in their power to throw pur-
suers of the track and to elude capture.
Their shrewdness in carrying out the
daring robbery gives evidence of the
fact that they must be capable of plan
ming an escape in very much the same
manner.
No news was received yesterday from
the scouting parties, either by the Savan-
nah, Florida and Western railroad Off
Gals, or by the Southern Express Com
pany, except that they had been out in
every direction and secured the woods
for miles around, but were unable TO
strike any trail.
Most of the scouting parties gave up
the search, after prosecuting it in vain
for two days. Mr.. c. L. Myers, of Jack
sonville, district superintendent of the
Southern Express Company, is on the
field where the robbery occurred, and is
employing every means to reach a clew
and find out where the robbers went. 1t
is thought that Detective jackson, of the
Southern Express Company, is
with him. jackson was in
strumental in accomplishing. the
arrest of the parties concerned in the
DeLaughter robbery.
BELIEVED TO HAVE HAD WAGON.
It is impossible to tell just where the
robbers left the engine, which they took
away from the train. 1t is believed they
left it somewhere in the woods before it
stopped, and took a wagon, which they
had in waiting to carry them off to some
place of safety. This, of course, would
render pursuit by bloodhounds imprac-
ticable The theory is an entirely tena-
BILE one, as the engine slowed down with
out the use of the throttle, the injectors
having filled the boiler with
cold water. The robbers could
have done this without any
difficulty and it is altogether probable
that they adopted some such means of
escape. There is no way of telling what
direction they took.
4uGY Will III dll UTOUdD1klbN De EauRn L.
however, as the Southern Express Com
pany has seldom been known to let a
robber escape the law. Its detectives
and secret service men hunt them down,
and though it may sometimes be years
afterward, they are always caught
and generally convicted. Though they
may have covered every track some clew
will turn up at sometime, which will give
the detectives something to work on.
The Southern Express Company is IA
nous for rarely or never letting robber
escape.
MISSED A SNUG sum.
The robbers 1t is said, missed a magni-'
ficent haul on No. 5, the down train, the
express car of which contained about S30.-
900. This train passed the same point
just north of the swamp about II O'Clock
the night the robbery was committed.
Whether this is the amount
known SneS though i is O' reasonable bic
to suppose they were posted as to what
the cars were carrying, but were mis-
taken as to the direction in which it was
going. In case this was the haul they
were looking for, they probably kicked
themselves good when they stopped to
divide the plumber
chased a suspicious-looking charac ter
with a valise and Winchester rife the
afternoon of the day on which the rob
berry was committed. The fellow seemed
anxious to get away, however, and ran of
up the Central railroad track without
making known who he was or where he
was going.
A MORNING NEWS dispatch from HON.
erville last night stated there were no
new developments in the robbery case. A
Waycross dispatch says
THE robbers who held up the Savan-
nah, Florida and Western train night be-
fore last have not been captured Sheriff
Miller and his posse have returned to the
city, having been unable to get on the
track after the bandits"