Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-11-08
MESSENGER ROBBED.
THE THIEF ESCAPES.
The Decd Was pcrpe'ra'el In tho Sub.
urbs OF DcniSOn The RObber
Secured About Ten Thou.
sand Dollars.

Denison, Tex, Nov. !. - The bollast
and most daring robbery ever attempted
in north Texas. was psrpetrated upon
Wynn G. Concannon, the American ex-
press messenger who runs between
Sherman aud this place at about 6:4J
O'Clock last evening.
The messenger was sandhaggcd in h'd
car in the suburbs of thiS place and il
still in precarious condition.
The robbery WAS one of tho shrowdest
pieces of work ever done in the annals
of crime and the robber or robbers got
off with the Doodle and left no trail be-
hind them, no more than if the earth
had opened and swallowed them.
The robbery was committed while tho
train was in motion, within the space Of
five to seven minutes time, and while
the train was passing through that por-
ton of the Katy yards between the
roundhouse and the Union station.
The train left Sherman at 6:O5 and
everything was all right when Conduc.
tor ]. M. Ronter passed out of the ex-
press car at the roundhouse hero, within
quarter of mile of the station.
When it pulled into the station w. T.
MOI ehcad, driver of the American Ex-
press company's wagon, who makes the
trains to transfer express uptown, push
ed his truck up to the door and looked
inside the car. finding Express Messen.
ger Concannon wriuhing on the floor,
seemingly in fit
Conductor Romer was notified and
went TO the car. lie looked in and he.
lieved the messenger was sick. Water
was obtained and dashed into his face,
but he did not heed it,
Noticing that his safe was open and
that his papers were scattered about
tho floor, Conductor Romer suspected O
robbery had boon committed, and sent
FOR officers.
Express Messenger Concannon was
taken to his room at the home of Mrs.
G. NJ. Davis 3lS South Rusk avenue,
where Drs. A. w. Acheson and Robert
Yancy, local surgeon for the Missouri
Kansas and Texas went to attend him.
They made a thorough examination OF
his head and body and found no contus.
ions or wounds His pulse was very
weak and his heart beats faint and
hypodermic injections were given BIN
to revive his pulse
There were two heavy consignmenta
of money in the safe-one a package OF
$4,000 from the Merchants and Planters
bank of Sherman to the bank at Rock
wall and the other consignment Of
$4,000 from the Merchants and Planters
bank to the bank at Whitewright. There
were other consignmepts Of money. maxi
ing the total somewhat in excess Of
$4,000
Tho safe in which the money was car.
ried was one of the small local safes
used by the American Express company
in their local business. 1t did not have
the combination that is carried ON tho
larger safes on tho heavy runs and are
not opened by combination. but was
opened by large key carried on the
person of the messenger.
The theory of the officer is that the
robber was concealed somewhere in the
car, and that while the back Of the mes
senger was turned, tie man Slipped NJ
behind and struck the blow with q
heavy sandbag.
The robbery was committed within
four blocks OF the place where B. A
Jennings was sandbagged and robbed
some weeks ago