The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-10-23
A BOLD TRAIN ROBBER,
Alone and Unaided, Holds Up
Union Pacific Train,
Captures the Engineer and Fireman. COM
pels Them To DO Duty rs Dnmmi~s
While lie Goes Through the
Express aud Mail Cars.

Express aud Mail Cars.
SALT LAKE CRY, Utah, Oct. lot
Appears that the hold-up of the west
bound Union Pacific train No. ;. eight
miles east of Ogden, at 3:l5 o'clock yes
terday morning. was the work OF one
man, single-handed and alone, who, py
n clever coup, cajoled the passengers
and trainmen into the BELIEF that NO
had ample assistance in the RAID that
he was making. He first made his APP
pearance by climbing over the tender
into the cab of the engine, and per-
emptorily demanding the fireman and
engineer 10 throw up their hands, say
ing that he was about TO rob the traih.
The robber was disguised in such
way as to prevent any possibility Oh
identification, having his head lncioseu
\ in sack with eye-holes cut in IT. ne
men immediately complied with the
request of the robber, and were foreeu
to Disguise themselves as he directeu'
furnishing them with -four sacks 70
pull over their heads. over this mask
they were compelled to pull aowE
their hats in a manner that wouiu IN
dictate to the passengers anu o'hets
that they, too, were robbers. Az inns
point he compelled the engineer ana
fireman To uncouple the train leaving
the express and mail car attached 10
the engine. After this was done ne
personally mounted the engine, leav'
ing the engineer and fireman upon
the ground, pulled open the throttis
and ran part of the train half mAv
down the canyon, when he stopped
and began his efforts To blow open the
safe.
The express messenger and man
clerk remained intheir respective cars
The robber commanded Express
Messenger Mccoy TO maintain aoso
lutte silence, an injunction which he
implicitly obeyed. After this he spent
an industrious but fruitiess thirty
minutes in IN attempt TO bore hole
into and blow open the safe with dy
Mantle. During the operations OF th'
robber the express messenger sa
quietly on a box near by. After fail
ing to reach the inside OF the sale
and seeing that success III that dlrec
ton was impossible, he abandoned
b his work and turned his atten
tion to the mail ear, where n
/. commanded the clerk to throw on
the registered packages and four maj
D bags were accordingly thrown out
d Taking out his knife he Immediately
{ proceeded to cut open the bags an'
/ rifle them of such matter as suited IN
fancy lie secured number OF regis
/. tered packages, but rs To the eNae
number and how much money the,
q contained there is no means Of know
d ing at this time.
J, The passengers were not molested
: but were badly frightened and belns
(. led to believe that the train on eacl
: side was lined with robbers ready Z
! shoot at the first mead that appeared
/. kept very quiet during the hour tn
robOer was getting in his work.
J, The four mail pouches overhanle'
! were through pouches. Three OF then
i were destined for san Francisco, ant
came one from Chicago, one from
\ Omaha, aud another from Hartford
q Conn. The fourth was from Chicago
D going through 10 Sacramento. The
{ bandit threw aside the large packages
. likely to contain merchandise and car
\ ried off an armful of the smaller ones
!. The only clew to the identity of Tia
}. robber is the fact that n stranger wa
{ noticed in the neighborhood yestel
y day riding one horse and leading tw
i others. lie remained around durin
N the day and evening and acted in
Is suspicious manner. 1t is claimed tbs
i he showed great expertness in hal
n ding "A train, which leads to the su
d position that at some time he has bee
n a railroad man.
II Is reported that package contai
u ing S25, 900 in greenback for Wei
e Fargo & Co.'s bank in San Francis
o. was overlooked by the robber, who &
hold Of it, tore the end open and thrc
il to one side without examining
sufficiently to hecome aware OF the Il
on ture Of its contents.