Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-11-14
INIT $4,000 BEHIND.
Bandits Rob the WeIIs-Fargo
Express Company.
rOOK i PACKAGE HOLDING $50, 900.

TOOK 4 PACKAGE HOLDING $40, 900.
There Were Other Packages in the safe
Containing $4,000 but They Missed
Them-The Agent Compelled to Open the
safe at the Points of Revolvers-After
Securing the Money They Made Him I'm
dress and Go to Bed.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, Nov. I2-The
Wells-Fargo Express company has given
out the following official statement re-
garding robbery at the Santa Fe depot:
Twenty thousand dollars was sent from
Denver TO the First National bank of
Colorado Springs early in the afternoon.
This money was in currency of small de
nominations and was received about 6
o'clock and too late to be delivered to the
bank. The package containing the money
was placed in the depot safe and both
4 )ors locked There was nothing to indi-
cate its value. Evidently the thieves
knew of its existence. When train No.
came in, about 2:43, there were other pack
ages aboard with currency TO the amount
SO, 600 consigned to tn same bank.
These packages were delivered to the
agent and placed in the safe with the
other
Confronted by Robbers.
After the train had departed the agent,
George krout- went to the platform to
straighten the trucks which were stand
ing there and when he returned to the Of
flee he was met at the door by two
masked men with drawn revolvers. The
package containing the $4,000 was de
manded, and the agent was compelled to
open the safe and give it up. The agent
said nothing about the remaining pack
ages and the robbers left at once. The
standing rewards of $500 each for inforrna-
tion or arrest of the robbers of course
holds good and the amount will undoubt-
eddy be increased. When Krout entered
his office after performing his duties out
side, two men, one tall, the other short,
confronted him with revolvers pointed
at his head and commanded him to throw
up his hands. Krout. badly frightened,
obeyed Then one of the robbers, step
ping close to the agent, said: mot q
word from you. We want you to open
that safe and be quick about it, Hurry
up''
Turned the Combination.
Krout denied that there was any money
in the safe. The revolver was pressed close
TO him, and he was told TO open the safe
or suffer the consequences. With trem
bling hands he slowed turned the combi
nation. When the door swung open Krout
explained that there was only one package
there and reaching in picked up an
velope containing S2O, 600, which he hand
ed to the short man. He then closed the
heavy door. The robbers seeming salts
fled that the agent told the truth stepped
away from the safe. krouts action in
handing out the $4,000 package and clos
ing the doors of the safe saved the com
pany $4,000 During all this time the
thieves did not appear in the least excited.
The robbers ordered Krout to undress
himself and get into bed. After he had
done So one of the robbers took pains TO
see that the quilt and comforters Were
drawn tightly over Krout's head and
tucked down. Then Krout heard one of
them say: Now open the door and see it
there is any one about"
Gave the Alarm.
Krout heard the door slide back and
bump and then one of the robbers said:
wait now, ~ have missed something
Let's take ood, long look over the place
and see. \. nen krout plucked courage
to jump out of bed and 20 outside there
was noone in sight An alarm was given
and by II o'clock posses We're securing the
vicinity of the depot on the eastern out
skirts of the town, but no trace of the
robbers was found. Finally two blood
hounds were put on the trail and it was
found that the men had gone along Pixies
Peak avenue through the heart of the
city. On the theory that they would go to
Cripple Creek over the Cheyenne noun
tain road posse started from that city to
head them off The depot agent was not
100 yards away from krout's office while
Uhe robbery was being committed, but he
did not see the robbers, and knew nothing
about the matter until informed by krout
MAEsHALLTowN Ia, Nov. 12.-The