The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-10-06
PASSENGERS ROBBED.
Bandits in In6ian Territory Who
Were Not Too Proud to Take
Everything in Sight.
ONLY THE LADIES WERE SPARED,

And They Were Lined Up with the Rest Of
the Tourists While the Robbery Was
Taking Piace-One Mans Far Shot or
tempt tn Rob the Express Safe Fails
The Luetgert Trial and Its Bones.
FL Reno. q. T.. Oct. Bandits robbed
the south bound Rock Island passenger
train and air its passengers at IL o'clock
yesterday afternoon at siding No. 1.
about five miles south of Minco. in the
Indian Territory. The railroad and ex-
press officials have feared hold-up in
that section for several weeks and
armed guards have been put aboard
all night trains at FL Reno and carried
through to Chickasha. 1t had not been
thought that the outlaws were bold
enough TO attack a train in midday.
Yesterday morning the trainmen were
completely surprised and they were
not prepared TO offer any resistance
when five masked men came upon them
at the lonely siding. The place is un-
inhabited; the only persons in the vicini-
ty at the time were four section men.
These section men tagged the train.
the robbers having compelled them to
do So The bandits were hidden at the
time in a brush pile, and jumped out
as soon as the passenger train had
taken the siding.
shot "A Mans Ear on.
Under the pressure Of Winchesters
and ugly looking six-shooters the train
men, the express messenger and all Of
the score or more Of passengers were
4 a
stand in a line. hands up. on the
prairie along the railway. While three
of the robbers covered the badly
frightened crowd with their guns the
other two coOlly and carefully robbed
them, passing from one passenger to
another down the line. The bandits
secured about 5000 in cash and such
other valuables in the way of watches,
pins and jewelry as were in sight. The
few women passengers were not COM
PEELED to give up their valuabes, and
Rev. Mr.. Roe, one of the passengers
who was sick, was not compelled to
leave the coach. Jim Wright, of Minco,
showed a disposition TO resist when the
bandits ordered hands up" They shot
one Of his ears off TO prove to his salts
faction that his bravery was ill-advsed.
else was injured.
Failed To Rob the Express Safe.
The passengers and trainmen having
been thoroughly plucked three OF the
bandits turned their attention to the eX-
press and mail coaches, the others
standing guard over the helpless crowd
on the prairie. The registered mail
pouches were quickly rified, but the
through safe in the express car resisted
all the force and ingenuity of the road
agents. When the messengers had con-
WINGED the bandits that they could not
open the strong box they resorted to
dynamite. Several heavy charges were
exploded, but the safe proved bandit
proof. and though il was badly battered
its contents were saved to the express
company. Having taken forcible possess
sion of everything they could carry
away the bandits mounted their horses
and rode off toward the west. AS soon
as the tranmen could collect their wits
they got the scared passengers aboard
and hurried on TO the next station
south, Chickasha, from which point the
railroad officials were notified Of the
hold-up. and officers sent i'm pursuit.
But the robbers will have time to get
TO the mountains.