Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-04-04
TWo VICTIMS WERE DESPERATE MEN


Both Had Been on Trial Recently on a
Charge OF Assassinat ion-Martin, the
Robber, Who Was Wounhed, Taken to
the Hospltai-The sceue OF Conflict Eso-
.sambled Miniature HattIsHoie.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 2s.-The inside
facts as 10 the attempted hold-up ct the
Queen Il Crescent train No. 8, near Green.
wood, yesterday morning, are told in a
special to the Eve13y Post, from Somerset,
KY, as follows.
Chief Of Detectives Tom Griffin, as
sisted by Officers Eddy and Fraser, armed
with repeating shotguns loaded with bucS-
shot. neatly trapped the desperadoes. The
plot to hold up the train Yesterday morn
ing had been Matching for weeks past BY
parties of desperate characters who. after
their death were identified as living in the
vicinity. The road and express authors
ties managed to get a defective into the
confidence of the robbers, who stayed
with them until about . o'clock at the
point OF rendezvous on the road.
The train was due at O'Clock at this
point. The local detective then made
excuse to 90 up to Greenwood station.
amilc away and get the crowd something
10 eat and drink. When the train pulled
into Greenwood. Detectives Griffin and
Eddy were notified by Fraser, the local
detective, who was i'll the camp with the
robbers, that the game was ready. The
engineer was to give u special signal or
whistleif the train was halted by the band.
Promptly on time, u mile south of
Greenwood, in the dark shadows of the
tunnel cut, the signal came from the
engine with the sharp crack of the re-
yolvers of the robbers saluting the halt of
the train. The wheels Of the train had
not stopped before Griffin and Eddy
sprang from the train. The robbers were
partly In the glare Of the headlight of the
engine, partly i'll shadow. Every one
fairly in sight went down under the rapid
fire of the repeaters of the detectives.
The robbers were so daZGd by their re.
ception that their reply lire was utterly
wild, and in II few minutes all was over.
The two men killed were named Jerry
Morrow and Frank Underwood. Morrow
was very large man, Weighing about 80
pounds. Goth were desperate characters.
Morrow and Underwood having been on
trial few months since for the nssussina-
ton Of "A man in their vicinity, his body
having been found with marks of violence
III the Cumberland river.
Circumstantial and even direct evidence
was strong against them, and the general
belief was that they were guilty Of the
crime. The bodies of Morrow and Under.
wood were left for interment at Green
wood station. The tramp, Martin, was
not thought to have any connection with
tile affair by the authorities.
The detectives came in on the room
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 seriously wounded.
Martin seems respectfully connected, as he
wired brother in Allegheny of his pre-
dicnment with request to send him
money. 1t was certainly very lively for
| Martin.
A gentleman who was on the spot says
the scene of attack was like miniature
battlefield, the ground slashed and COY.
cred with blood for yards around. None
OF the parties ON the train were injured
| The huld-up is said TO be the first on the
| Cincinnati Southern between Lexington
and Chattanooga. Its history will not en-.
| courage the road agents TO a repetition.