El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-05-15
THE G.. H. AGAIN HELD UP.
This Time 1t Was Near Lozier.-But
Little Booty Secured

| 11ttle Booty secured.
| The sending to the penitentiary OF
several of the men who held up the G
| H. west wound train near Comstock
not year ago, does not seem to have
| had very deterrent effect, for other
desperadoes have been at it again. and
with little more success as to booty
| than the other expedition.
| This late racket occurred at 8. m,
yesterday two or three miles west of
| Lozier station, 225 miles west of San
| Antonio, the train being the one due
| in this city from New Orleans at 2:45
p. m. Through the courtesy of Mail
Agent Jones the following interesting
| account is given of the affair.
The train had pulled up for orders
| at Lozier station, when two masked
men suddenly stepped upon the engine
foot board, and with six shooters point
ed at Engineer Fries head, invited
him to pull out that throttle again and
get a large and accelerated action on
him. unless he wished to don his
golden slippers. There was nothing to
throttle. and "let her went,n and she
did went" When two or three miles
out, against blubb on the north side
of the track where the thieves had
their horses there, the engineer was
told to shut off, and he was made to
dismount from his engine. Then a
third man showed up. Two of the
highwaymen wore masks while the
other conteuted himself with merely
having daube1 some black stuff over
his elegant phiz which sufficed to dis
guise him. Several shots were fired
down the length of the train to warn
the train hands and over curious pas
sengers that it would be just as well TO
keep in doors. They kept in doors. 1t
was a case of where "a word to the
wise is sufficient
The highwaymen then went to the
door Of the mail department of the
forwal d car, and routed out Mr.. Jones.
The latter did not waste any time in
inquirlng after the health of his visit
ors or extending hospitalities: but
showed them that there was nothing
but mail in his part of the car, and
that the express department was else
where. The robbers said it was the
express car that they were after.
The gang then found the door of the
express part of the composite car, and
routed out Messenger Joyce of San
Antonio. The little or local safe was
opened, but nothing of value discovered
| therein. although the San Antonio dis
patches says some $500 was found.
The messenger was able to convince
the robbers that he could not open
Messrs. Jones, Joyce and Fries with
picks AMI instructed them to sail in a do
themselves proud on that big safe. The
unhappy trio did not want to one bit,
but it was case of Mark Twain s
"Bemis' Mule, and they had to do it
anyhow. But the picking was no
good, so the highwaymen became dis
gusted, and after making some touch
| ing allusions' to dynamite, they com
PEELED the unhappy trio to march out
to the side of the track where several
sticks of the terrible explosive were
stored. These were fshed up at the
point of the bayOnet, and then the uu-
masked man told the mail clerk
to go in out of the wet and sit
down and keep ca-am and kcol, and
not make any disturbance or it would
be the worse for him, if not worser
He also incidentally offered the sage
remark that he'd ruther guessed tha.
folks wouldn't approve much of the
business he was engaged in, but to tell
the truth he was druv to it. The gen.
tleman who was SO solicit1ous about the
truth then Disappeared, and after the
precious outfit had set the little safe