Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-10-06
HELD UP.
The East Bound Passenger
 Robbed by Bandits.
A WATER HAUL.
The Losses Estimated at a Hun dred Dollars and the Mes
 senger's Watch.

| As Nc. 19 east bound passenger, Lou
 Holiday engineer, Jim Smythe fireman
 and Martin conductor, slowly pulled ou, of the Marie pa yard near midnigh, last nigh, the blind baggage was O-rd
 ed by three armed men whom the brake. man Jerry-attempted to put of. The fireman hearing the melee called the attention of the engineer who was taking his coffee, to the aparent dis turb bance and he slowed the engine down. Just at this moment a masked man climbed over the tender and point ing Winchester at Holiday, told him to "keep her going" and in response to the irquiry ot ''how far," vas told none of your-business but keep her nov Ing."
 When about mile and half out, the robber ordered the tram to stop. At l this point they were Joined by two other men. making five robbers, all told. The express car was as usual tlejr ob- Iective point, but as it was closed Fire mar Smytbe was marched back under
 
 with which to open the express car door. They were. however, saved the trouble by Messenger George Mitchell, who op- ened the door and in & beautiful brogue inquired the cause for such disturbance. Under the persuasive influence of via. chester he held up his hands and later opened tue door Of the only gettable safe in the csr-tbat IS the sufe used for local traffic.
 In order to meet just such contingen- ces the Southern Pacific runs what is known as through safes," that Is the combination is not known by the mes- senge and they are opened only at ter minal points, such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, El Paso and so on, and as the local safe contained no money the rob- bers had their trouble for nothing However, they evened up on the mes- seDger by taking his watch. This so far es can be learned is about the ag- gregste sum of their gains. The train was then ordered to run on-and they moved.
 The robbers, so far as known, were supplied with horses by their confeder- ates at the place where the train WAS held up. They rode of ID the direction of the Salt river. Word was wired to Casa Grande and posse was at once organized and had gone in pursuit be- fore the train reached there.
 NOTES.
 1t has been definitely ascertained that the robbers secured just s16500 in cash and messenger Mitchell's watch.
 Four of the five men implicated in the robbery wore masks. The man who crawled to the engine it now seems was unmasked. He was a small man and evidently understood his business
 When the robbers left the train one of thsm said "you-of-y will learn to vote the republican ticket next time, as much as to say they would not | have been in that kind of business but for the hard times entailed on the country by the democrats.
 The through safe that witbstood the blsndishments of the robbers WIS mak- ing its second through trip over the road. |
 It IS said that the railroad officials had been advised of threatened hold up, and were on the lookout for one. but did not know either the time or the place where the blow would fall, and prepared fer the emergency with the through safe.
 The robbers carried away their "swag" in a guny sack. Smyth who saw 1t, said that it appeared to be a short haul.
 A passenger by pams of J. F. Raw lings, from Bloomfield, Iowa, was dosing ID hIs seat at the time the tram came to E stand still. He woke up by hearing a shot fired, and the car seemed to be empty, but on investigation he found most of the passengers under the seats and he lost no time in keeping them compahy, but fortunately they were worse scared than hurt, as the road agents did pot molest them.
 On getting the short haul from the express car the robbers consulted for about two minutes on the propriety of going through the passengers" but finally decided not to do So.
 The streets are full of all kinds of re- ports. One is to the effect that three or four of the robbers had been captured; another that one had been killed near Phoenix and the balance had escaped to Mexico. The robbers are said tn be well known to the police officers of Phoe- nIX.
 Some of the friends of Express Mes senger Mitchell tell of him that when talking of the time when he was called to op the door of his car that he said, De Jasus l thought they were buns, so l stuck me head out and he says, up goes your hands" and I says Cup they go."
 When the conductor heard the firing he went out to see what the trou ble was but robber blazed away at him and told him to get back in the car. He lost no tlme in getting there.
 There is an ugly rumor to tbe effect that the hold up was done by eome of the democratic candidates of Maricopa county in their efforts to raise campaign