The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-26
TRAIN BANDITS
eugge stions Is to How They
Should Be Dealt With.
Need That GovernHn~at Methods n. sis-
piiaed Train Roesing CnAso~a IN
Canada. where TasI have
Mounted Police system.

Train robberies have been so fro
quent and have been carried out with
such comparative ease during the last
five years that railroad and express
companies have almost given up ia
despair the long and often futile at
tempts 10 catch the bold land pirates.
The bold dynamite outrage AZ Wag-
paca, Wis, the other day Is al ex-
ample of the daring and the extremi-
ties To which the land pirates will go.
A dastardly plan was formed and car
ried out to wreck the train, and then "a
loot the express car. The lives Of the
passengers were not for a moment
taken into consideration by the rob
bers- Only by the prompt action CT
the engineer were the paSsengcf.
coaches saved from destruction. the en-
CINE, baggage and express cars having
been dcrailed. The robbers were un-
able 10 blow open the safe. but their
diabolical design placed the lives Of
the passengers and trAinmcu In great
peril.
During the last Ave years there have
been Ill train robberics Some of them
have been successful, while others
have failed because the trainmen have
met force with force and shot down tina
land pirates before they could do sny
damage. Thousands Of dollars have
been carried OF. mail has been rifed,
and passengers have been terrified or
murdered In resisting the robbers. No.
withstapding stringent laws have been
passed by most Of the states against
train robbers. and the penalties named
have been severe, train robbibg has IN
creased. The hanging Of . bandit. who
had shot down the man no tried 20
protect the property OF his employers
and their clients, has seemed TO have
had no deterrent effect on the emu
lators Of Jesse James aud Black
Bart Several train robbers arc now
serving long terms In penitentiaries for
their crimes. but the fact that they
have been caught and punished has not
proved terrifying % their SUCCESSORS
Tn. Chicago Times-IIerziJ haS a.as<d
the governors of the states, roilroaf
men and presidents OF express oom~
panies for Their views a. " The bes. wsy
20 prevent train robberiss aad ss 20
whether they thought the federal ss-
tbOrities should be called upon 20 pro
tect passengers and mail from the bold
and unscrupulous narasderx. The za-
swers 20 these queries are both REEBer-
Gus and varied
Nearly every answer urges .hs strfcs
and immediate enforcement % the lAs
against the perpetrators 81 train rot--
berries. PreSiden, Hin. Of he Great
Northern railroad. ssys {; Il impossible
20 construct ears which viii reslsi sac-
cessfully the attacks % the lad p
rates He claims that tsss law and ils
enforcement would prove = terror 90
the bandits snd proven: crime. % thia
mature
President yaIsntsB.. O. Wells. Fargo
a Co, IL afraid nothing can Be doc.
until federal methods arc s.mpsfaed
lie thinks the federal ssthar..aes
should take the matter Ia hss1. bsl
with new and quicker nssehisery
Another correspondent ssyges-s . stat
mounted polie> systen - crush tbs
land pirate This - ice pan s5ovte9
"a Canada. where The tran roober -
nov an pn<nown erfDissl qssntlsy.
Missouri has death p~psi.J Cor rob
bing . train. jet stt~Dp.s have b>es
ne as nsuerozs az o@fors tse lz~ va
rsas~ed. J. e Fargo, prsssdsnt % III
aroeriGzn Exprss. company. bolds tas;
tan roeb-~r~ ss>n ezsyst sh0uii -
Eanyed OF saot OK the SGT ~ ;raes-
fsrred 20 tss federal oSsrss fo- trsz'-
Hszvy PENALTIES are szgges.Sd - al
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