The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-28
A PUT UP JOB.
The Queen & Crescent Hold Up Arranged
by the Detectives.

by the Detectives.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 28-The in
side facts as to the attempted hold up of
the Queen s. Crescent No. 3, near Green
wood yesterday morning, are told in
special to the Evening Post as follows:
Chief of Detectives Tom Griffin, assisted
by Officers Eddy and Frazer armed with
repeating shotguns loaded with buck
shot, neatly trapped the desperadOes.
The plot to hold up the train yesterday
morning had been Matching for weeks
past by parties of desperate character,
who, after their death, were identified as
living in the vicinity. The road and ex-
press authorities managed to get de-
tective into the confidence of the rob-
bers, who stayed with them until about 2
o'clock at the point OF rendezvous on the
road.
The train was due at 8 o'clock at this
point. The local detective then made an
excuse to go to Greenwood station, a
mile away, and get the crowd something
to eat When the train pulled into
Greenwood, Detectives Griffin and Eddy
were notified by Frazer, the local datec-
tive who was in the camp with the rob-
bers, that the game was ready. The en-
gineer was to give special signal, or
whistle, if the train was halted by the
bandits.
of Greenwood in the dark shadow of the
tunnel cut the signal came from the
engineer, with the sharp crack of re-
volvers of the robbers, saluting the halt
of the train. The wheels of the train had
not stopped ere Griffin and Eddy sprang
from the train. The robbers were partly
in the glare of the headlight of the en-
CINE; partly in the shadow Everyone
fairly in sight went down under the
| IF ho Of ho dofa
tives.
The robbers were so dazed by their
reception that their reply fire was utterly
| wild, and in few minutes all was over.
Two men killed were numed Jerry Nor
row and Frank Underwood N orrow
was very large man, weighing about
| 250 pounds. Both were desperate char
acters, Morrow and Underwood having
| been on trial few months ago for the
assassination of man in their vicinity
his body having been found with
marks of violence in the Cumberland
| river.
Circumstantial aud even direct evil
| dence was strongly against them and the
general belief was that they were guilty
| of the crime. The bodies of Morrow and
Underwood were left for interment at
| Greenwood
The tramp Martin was not thought to
the authorities. The detectives came in
on the noon train from the battle with
Martin in care of the local surgeon of
the road. Martin walked from the train
with the surgeon to the railroad hospital
near the depot. and did not seem seri-
ously wounded. Martin seemed respect
ably connected, as he wired brother
in Allegheny of his predicament, with
a request to send him money. 1t
certainly was a very lively box for
Martin. A gentleman who was on the
spot says that the scene of attack was
like miniature battlefield, the ground
being covered with blood for yards
around at the place the holdup was
made. None of the parties on the train
were injured, as stated yesterday. The
hold-up is said to be the first on the road
between Lexington and Chattanooga. Its
history will not be encouraging to the
road agent for repetition.