The evening world., 1894-10-13
The Seven Robbers Merely
Chatted with Passengers,
Offering No Violence.
EXPRESS CAR ALONE ROBBED.
Badly Shattered by Dynamite, 1t
Rolls Into Jersey City Early
This Morning.

tTdin NO. 10, nortn-pound, winch was
held up last night on the Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad,
reached the Pennsylvania Depot at Jer-
sey City at sos this morning, bringing
with 1t a badly shattered express car,
No. pa
The Adams Express Company's mes
sengers left the train and proceeded at
once to the Company's Office in this city.
They reported that all of their safes
were rifed by the robbers. 1t is sup
posed that the bandits obtained between
$4,000 and 100000
When the express car, which is one
belonging to the Atlantic Coast Di-
vision, was side-tracked, passengers,
passers-by and trainmen gathered
around to examine a spectacle unique
In the history of railroading in this To-
cality.
The heavy oak door of the car had
been splintered by the dynamite used
by the robbers, and, in addition, the
marks left by the revolver bullets as
they ploughed their way through the
woodwork of the car were plainly Wis.
ible.
Every pane of glass in the windows
OF the car had been fractured by the
force of the explosion, and small frag-
ments were still scattered over the
floor of the car
The officials of the Adams Express
Company in charge OF the car al the de-
pot claimed that only the pouches and
safes had been ransacked, the other
packages in the car remaining intact.
Many Many OF OF the passengers who wit
Washington and Philadelphia, but a
Few completed the journey to New
York City.
Passenger ShakIefOrd'B Story.
,Trainmep were, as usual, reticent
about discussing the affair. But Col.
j.. NJ. Shakleford, a newspaper man,
time, gave a graphic account of the
manner in which the robbers secured
Sheir pinnder and made their escape,
of the Newark IN. j. Journal and is
now connected with The Times Enter.
prise OF Thomasville. Ga. He told the
following story
About seven or eight miles the other
side OF Quantico station, l should say,
the train came to sudden standstiil
Cuantico station, you know, is located
side. When the train stopped the con-
ductor, Nj. A. Birdsong. was thus ad-
dressed by one of the masked robbers,
Throw up your. hands, or well blow
your brains out
From the manner in which they ar
ranged the signals for stopping the
tram as well as the manner in which
they afterwards made their escape, 1t
was evident that several members OF
Inc Inc gang We're experienced railroad men.
That they We're desperate men was
even more evident. and the conductor
ana the fireman lost no time in obeying
Ineir instructions, and wisely, too, l
There were at least six or seven
masked men and ] could plainly dis
unguish them all in the clear moonlight
OF the early evening; in fact, so near did
masks 1 am almost sure that l could
recognize some of them 4 / could see
them again from certain little peculiar
alarmed passengers crowded out tot Of the the
cars to see what was the matter the
robbers fred a perfect fusillade of shots
70 intimidate them as we'll as to frlghten
the railroad men.
Blew Open the Car with Dynamite.
THE. robbers rined the express car
W st,nhS loss OF time. They put their
the express car and blew it open.
Inc engineer is a man named Frank
tha ia rgae ne was an old employee on
railroad men tell me. but two or three
OF the villains attended to the engineer,
while two or three more of them at
tended to the express messengers and
- t"o hCpt Budtu Oh pas
Some OF the desperadoes even went so
Iar as to converse in a clever daring
fashion with the passengers and the
trainmen. This made us all the more
indignant. but we could do nothing 10
help ourselves. Most of the PASSENGERS
were cool and collected after the FIRST
nush or the excitement was over I re-
member 1t struck me as being a humor-
Gus thing when we found out after an
examination OF all our pockets, that We
mad only one pistol to the entire crowd,
and that little bit OF a one, and the
mischief OF 1t was that 1t Wouldn't work
az all when the owner OF II tried to dis
charge 1t at the robbers as they disap-
peared In the darkness.
But that wasn't half so laughable as
was the INCIDENT OF one woman who had
= little diamond-studded watch. She
Tried to get her husband to swallow II in
the excitement, but he declined to at
ttssnnpt the preservation OF the watch in
'The most novel thing in the entire
proceeding was the way IN which the
robbers made their escape. They cut the
engine loose. piled their plumber into the
cab, and then the whole crowd got IN
on top OF 4 They turned on steam
ana started for Quantico station as fast
as the engine could carry them. OF
course. that left us stalled In the middle
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