The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-10
A TRAIN HELD UP IN GEORGIA,
Robbers Appear on the Oh attanooga,
Rome and Columbus.

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From the Macon (Ga) Telegraph Of Jan. o.
The south bound express train on the
Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus rail
road was held up three miles south Of
FELTON,, a small flag station on that road
in HARRISON county, about Z o'clock last
Saturday night by three masked men.
No booty was secured and the robbers
had to go away empty handed.
| The details of the attempted train rob-
berry as obtained from the local authori-
| ties of the Southern Express Company
are meager. Route Agent Carey is out Of
| the city investigating the case and the
| agents here have not been fully posted
about the affair,
! The facts obtainable are that when the
| south bound train from Chattanooga had
| passed FELTON, about three miles, being
a man with light stepped from the sur
| rounding woods upon the track and sig
nailed the train to stop.
The engineer, not knowing of course,
but that the signal was friendly one to
warn him of danger ahead, reversed his
engine and brought the train TO a sudden
standstill
Before the train had been brought to a
| full stop three masked men appeared
alongside Of the engine and ordered the
engineer and fireman to come down out of
| their cab. They did so, and, upon land
ing on the ground, were covered with
three ugly guns in the hands of the high
waymen and told to up with their hands,
which they did.
| Then the robbers in silence marched
| the two men down to the express car and
| forced their way through the front door,
which was securely locked and barred.
1t took them only a minute, however, to
! break in, and before he knew what had
| happened to bring the train tossuch sud
| den stop, Express Messenger Richards
was covered with one of the mems pistols
and told to come up with all the money he
! had in charge.
The men, from all accounts, were evil
| IDENTIFY green hands at this business, for
| they evinced much excitement through
out the whole affair. The messenger and
trainmen, on the other hand, were per-
| fectly cool, and when told to give up his
money Mr. Richards engaged his uncere-
mOnious callers in an argument about the
! righteousness Of their cause.
Seeing. therefore, that Richardson was
not of the kind that are usually fallen in
with, two of the men kept him and the
| trainmen covered with their guns while
| the other went back searching for the
| packages on his own account Fortu-
! natelY, the messenger had all the valu-
able packages securely locked in a large
| safe.
In the meantime, while the robbers
were endeavoring to carry out their pur-
| pose, the news of the hold-up had spread
down among the passengers. Some of
! them were badly frightened and poured
out Of the cars in wild confusion to es-
| cape the remorseless collection of the rob-
| bers Others, a little drawer, started
| down to the express car.
About this time it is thought that the
! robbers found out that the passengers
were coming TO the rescue, and they beat
! a hasty retreat out of the door and into
the darkness of the surrounding swamp,
! leaving the express messenger and train
| men unframed.
! Then the train pulled out, and upon
| coming TO Griffin the authorities at At
| lanta were telegraphed to, and detectives
/ at once sent on the trail of the would be
| train robbers Sunday morning detect
! ives also went from Macon and other
/ points wherever the Central railroad Of
! ficers are stationed.