The record-union., 1896-09-06
ThreeMen Undertake
the Express Car:
One Of Them Killed by Engineer
Edwin {. IngleS.
lie Then Starts Up His Train and Frus-
trateS Their Plan.
The Bamed Bandits Fire Two Shots Into
One of the Passenger Coaches
and Escape.
The Spot Selected Was Hear the Scene Of the Train
Robbery in YOlO in October, l094-ThG
Body Of the Dead RObbI
Recovered

Railroad bandit Jack Brady, now in
Folsom Prison, will doubtless thank his
lucky stars to-day that it was not En-
gineer Edwin T. Ingles' train that he
and Bill Browning held up in Yolo on
the night of October IL, 1894.
Three other bandits tried the same
trick last night on the overland train,
piloted by Engineer Ingles, and one of
them was corpse in a very few min
utes. The others escaped.
The attempt was made about three
miles farther west than the scene of the
holdup in which Brady and Browning
got $4,000 of Wells -Fargo's money,
only to have Carl, the Yolo tramp, in
turn rob them of it.
The eastbound overland train,
due here at $40 from San
Francisco, had just passed Webster
Station-better known as the Swingle
Switch-when a robber who had been
concealed near the front of the train
crept over the tender of the locomotive
and covered Engineer Ingles and Fire
man Patrick Burns with pistol and
made them stop the train at a given
point near the long trestle a little way
this side of the switch.
There he was joined by another bandit
who had been in waiting ,and while the
former kept the engineer covered with
his weapon the other took the fireman
oh 70 o11f off ha oh
they intended to rob.
While they We're on the way back
robber number one took his eye off En-
gineer Ingles for one fatal moment, and
in an instant Ingles had grabbed his
ready pistol and fired two bullets into
him and he rolled like a log off the ten
der and fell dead by the side Of the
track. Then the brave engineer opened
the throttle of his engine and started for
the city.
Finding themselves baff1ed the other
robbers-for there were two more Of
front coach in attempt to add murder
to their crime.
What became of them nobody knows
whether they jumped off the train or
secreted themselves until they got into
or near the town of Washington.
PASSENGERS ALARMED.
superintendent J. B. Wright was a
passenger on the train. He had left
with Lawyer Alvin ]. Bruner and State
Mineralogist j. j. Crawford was en-
joying cigar in the smoking car when
the train stopped. Presently pistol
shots were heard, but as the train i'm
mediately started up again it was
made by track torpedoes.
Then a couple more shots were heard,
and passengers came rushing in from the
front coach, saying that robbers were
on the platform and had shot into the
car
The train was now moving rapidly on
its way, and as none of the passengers
cared to risk his life by going forward
to investigate, the front coach was
abandoned, and those who had wives or
board set about quieting them, though
all expected every moment to see the
bandits come through the train and
rob everyone aboard.
But as the train sped on and they did
not come. the alarm of the passengers
was dispelled, and soon the train pulled
into the depot in this city. All that the
passengers knew of what had happened
had been in the meantime gathered
from Fireman Burns, who had managed
to escape from the bandits into the front
coach.
The train was in charge Of Conductor
o. NJ. Morris, who was In one of the day
coaches. He was about to go forward
into the front coach to see what was the
trouble, when the robbers bullets-some
say two shots were fired-crashed
through the glass door in front, one Of
which Clipped the rim Of the hat Of a
passenger whose curiosity had prompted
him to go toward the door.
ENGINEER INGLES' STORY.
I'VE had just passed the Swingle
SWITCH" said Engineer Ingles, when a
man appeared on the tender of the en-
gine. When I saw him he was looking
over the coal-board, with revolver In
his hand. and ordered all hands up.
After that he ordered me to slow down
and run slowly till the train reached
the long trestle. known as $3.50, and to
stop four car lengths from the end Of the
bridge.
'As stopped the train a man ap-
pearsd on the right side climbing UP the