The record-union., 1895-04-01
TRAIN ROBBER KILLED,
EARLY Morning HoId-up Near the
City Of MarySvile.
One Robber Killed by Sheriff BOgard
Of Tehama County.
Another Of the Bandits Then Killed the
Brave Sheriff and Escaped The
Robbers We're Sam and
Jack MCGuire

The chances are that there will not
be another railroad train hold-up in this
vicinity in the near future. 1t is now
quite apparent that all the hold-ups near
here in the last few months were the work
Of the same two men who stopped the
Oregon express near Marysville at an
early hour on Saturday morning, and
one of whom was shot and killed at that
time.
The news of this last attempt to rob
train was not received in time for the Sat-
urday mornings papers, though it oc-
CURED few minutes before 2 o'clock
A. NJ.
The hold-up was the most sensational
of the kind that has occurred in this State
since that in which the late Len Harris,
the railroad detective, was shot and
nearly killed at Pixley, in the San Joa-
quin Valley, Il few years ago, while de-
lending the train against hlghwaymen.
That OF Saturday morning resulted in the
death of one OF the robbers, the killing of
Sheriff Bogard of Tehama and the
wounding of Arthur ID. Nethercott, the
fireman of the locomotive hauling the
tain.
The train was what is known as No. II,
the express for Portland, Or, which
leaves this city at ll:l5 p. NJ. 1t was de-
layed nearly an hour after leaving here
by hot box, and was speeding over the
level plain between Wheatland and Reed
Station-the latter some six miles south
of Marysville-wh hen two men, who had
boarded the train at some unknown
point, climbed over the tender aud COM
PEELED Engineer Al Bowsher to stop.
One was large man, and the other
now known to have been brolhers-Sam
and Jack McGuire. They compelled En-
gineer Bowsher and Fireman Nethercott
TO leave the locomotive and 60 back with
them to the express car. +. a. kelton,
the express messenger, anticipating what
was up, had suddenly eXtIuguished the
lights in his car before the robbers and
their prisoners reached it, On the way
tho robbers nred several pistol Shots for
the purpose OF lntlmidating the passen-
gers and causing them to remain in the
coaches.
Messenger kelton refused to open the
express car when first commanded by
the robbers to DO SO, but he finally
yielded. The bandits, having satisfied
themselves that kelton could not open
the safes, then decided TO go through the
cars and rob the passengers, and to facili-
tate the work they pressed the engineer
and fireman into service.
A bag was made by cutting of leg
from pair OF overalls and tying up one
end and this the engineer and fireman
were required to carry between them, in
advance OF the robbers, who, with drawn
revolvers, compelled the passengers to
drop their money and valuabIes into it.
While the bandits were nurriedly pre-
pairing to rob the passengers, Sheriff John
BOgard OF Iehama County, who occupied
berth in the tourist sleeper next the
smoking-car, who had been awakened
by the commotion, partially dressed him
self, buckled on his pistol belt and hastened
forward to take hand IN the affair. He
was as brave man as ever faced danger
and had often expressed desire to be on
a train that was held up. Il might get
the worst Of it, he recently remarked to
friend, but L would get one of them"
And so he did. Just as Bogard entered
the rear door of the smoking-car he saw
the engineer and fireman coming slowly
down the aisle with the bag, in which the
frightened passengers were depositing
their watches and money, while the ban
dts covered them alternately with pistols
and ordered them to ''dlg up"
BOGARD'S BRAVERY.
Bogard went forward few steps and
leveling his pistol sent bullet straight
through the heart of the taller robber.
Sam Mcclure, who fell dead in the aisle
with bis own life, for Jack Mcclure. the
other bandit, then shot Bogsrd, and he
too fell and expired almost instantly
Jack Mcclure did not stop at this how
ever, but kept up promisCuous fire, and
presently Fireman Nethercott fell badly
wounded. The other shots plowed their
way through the windows, seats and sides
of the car.
One passenger who had crowded be-
meath seat allowed one of his feet to
prOtrude into the aisle, and bullet from
the bandits pistol clipped of the nee. of
one of his shoes. The bandit reached the
platform without injury, and without se-
curing the plunder taken from the pas
sengers, and disappeared in the darkness
man was found TO fire the engine.
and after q short delay the train prO-
ceeded to Marysville, where officers were
notified and steps taken to capture the
escaped robber.
IDENTIFICATION OF THE ROBBERS.
1t was then that the identity of the
robbers was established. Several persons
recognized In the dead man one of two
bIcyclists who arrived in that city from
the south last Monday. The soft, uncal-
loused hands show that hard work was
not his lot in life His attire, which WAS
that of bicyclist knee breeches
and dark stockings-tel the tale of the
robbers ride to the scene of the robbery
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pair of slip overalls, with improvised
pockets for carrying the plunder which
he and his partner hoped to secure.
a number of hotel people and farmers,
whose places the dead robber had visited
identified him as a young man named
Samuel Mcclure. To some he was in
troduced as young San Francisco doc
tor, to others as a bicycle agent and to
others as man of various callings or oc-
cupauous. Charles Becker, night clerk
at the United States Hotel, said that two
strangers arrived at the United States
Hotel soon after the departure of the
oregon express Monday morning. They
both had bicycles and stated that they
had arrived on the train. The tall man.
who wore bicycle suit and who slept at
the Golden Eagle Hotel on Wednesday
and thursday nights, had registered un-
DER the name of ). Mcclure of San Fran
cisco.
John j. Daley, clerk of the latter hotel.
said that he had stopped ut the hotel no,
fore, and from his accent he concluded
that ne was an Irishman. He was posl-
Va q ha had