Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1895-05-04
ENGINEER KILLED +!
Engineer on The Alton Road Mur.
dered by TrampS.
Heavy Damage Suit Filed Against
Geo. J. Gould.
The commander VI tbs LrLnj Army In
Route IN Santa Ic.
TRANSTLR W Troops


ChtcNgo, May , Ofh,ialr II the Alton
rusl deny rinphstwally tn LAY that there
wAr any A,,rmIt ,o hold ~ the train nt
Cnrhnv,ll- lnrt night. when Engin--r
FrAuk Holmes wAH KILLED The sh"uting,
they say, was dou- ny ,rAmI~ Ohir,nlr
think they have thr murirrr" ia mAu
caught leaving ia" tender However,
Mail Clrfk j T.. h--vrrr. tells the f"il"w.
iug story CarlinNill" lr ttty seven miles
from 1T Louis, Rud tram NJ s, with Con
duc,"r Cnuhn and Enginr-r Holmes left
there on rch-iulr time III II ~. HArily
hal the train got under way when twu
irsmpr lying Hat "n ia" coal ~ the ten.
der we're rlATtl--i 10y the appearance. ~
two msrkri men crawl Ing over the ten
der P"k,ng tw" big r"v"lv"rr intn the
faces II the tramps, the newcomers rn.
Juln.,l rilruc- Ani strict zttrutIun tn their
uvn hurinrrr paS-Ing "n tn the -ngln-
rah ."- Of the armrl men ordered the
t~o bremen, one mAn -AtrA learning the
r,ad Ia pat up their hsnI-. while u-
other covered the engineer aud "rl.r.
him tu shut I'll steam The rusIur,
complied. Aud then the d"rp"raiu uriri
,-i hlm io give her full hrAl and l- iiN,.
y Hl"ut n Nulm-p mair rrrtrut-
uf dong 49, shd ia" ruhl,"r HlpAr.
entity rAilsh'd rirIp"d back hHh ,r
iw". EuHiurrr H"lm-r war uu the Al-it
inr thu "Il"r,unl,y rr"r"ut"I Hni -rH
INK the hr,inau'r pIrk d,nlt ia" r,lh.r
i've hl"~r on the head both ryhip~rr al
enc" H-rrh M" AMI plucky Frank
Ii"lm"r fell dead 10 th" .ane~ny If bl-
-nein' With al I"H-t three hull-t hul-n ~
br-ar, The ii"mAn shut uti steam AnI
put "n ,h" A. nrnk" Hud the heavy tram
Hl"w-i down t"H r,Andrtll AH II did 49,
the tw" r"ll"rr rwuug N A uulub-r uf
men hal i""n ruling "n ih" rear IlA,fnrm
81 The mail car and ~ the urr, r-pnr, the
w" mail clerks working at the letter
car- h-ari enc II them -ArlAIm, "'rh-y
arr HbnA'ing let us get uh " Jumping -
they r-slizr'i that their plans had min
carried. After n"m"ntr inirclriun
they started /" tl-- The mail clerks ~hn
hsi 81 hr.i supI-'--d the hring was dun-
10y the hrAkrinAu NJ n"nnr- to d-ha all,
traml-. hrari the h~mnn rhnu,ug,
Frank Holmes ~ shot d-Hd" Mail
Clerk John Il C"n"fry and laggn.-man
L~gAu, ~ar ~ chArg" II weighing mails
tor the government AMI rAiliuHd company,
respectively, Irs"-,i-,l Ia grrirt the
trAinm-u ~ the search fnr the Hlay-rs ui
Logan stumbled oyer man IS.
INK prone III the grass aud com.
mHuird hlu I" rlr-. Reluctantly com
rl!nE the man rr"trrt-,i raiurrtIy
against arrest and clnlmrI I" h- IN uu
way r"nurcird with the truuhlr tunrfry
pu-h'ai "n and came upon nan with
repeating m" aud hrlt full Il cartridges
IIIr hack waE tuin-l a'd C"n-iry cuv.
erred hlu and ur-r,Si han tn come along
III" man lrmurr-i strongly AMI sail that
h- had hr-u uu n hunting cap ilun
t"n"iry refused /" parl-y ani getting
hir revolver III lin" with the sus.
i-'tS hear, convinced him thA, he
hal an earnest man /" deal with L..
gan AMI t"nrfry turned their men over
I" Conductor C"nlln AMI the l,aa.-ngrrs
tunllu IN the meantime secured the two
trAmpr "n the tender The man with the
r'il- IA, w y" convincing story /" Ac.
count Tor hl1 rr-r-nc- that C"nlin per.
miii'-! him I" ~. The I'ArS-ng-rS and
others i-li-v- Cunlin made ~ serious mis-
take. Tain NJ. 3 ~ rald io carry nt
tunes large sums II money And the nh-
J"c, II the bandits WAS probably Ia lo"i
the express ear. Chief Agent hAu- II
prosecuting vigorous search for the
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