Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-12-20
TWO IN ONE DAY.
a Pair Of Train Robbei.ies in
the South.
naiI Cars are Looted, a Postal Clerk Il
Almost Beatcn 20 Death-A Com
ductor Shot by a Lone High
wayman on an Illinois
Central Train.

New Orleans, Dec. 14.-The Illinois
Central southern fast mail was held
up and robbed by lone train rob-
Der about mile above the upper
limits of the city last night. Though
some of the train crew say they saw
four or more men concealed in the
bushes, only one man figured in the
action and his booty consists of only
one registered mail pouch for Dur
ant, Miss, and six other registered
letters from points between Cairo
and New Orleans.
Conductor Kinnebrew was shot in
the groin and j. c. Parker, railway
mail clerk, has his left eye powder
burned by a shot directed at his
head. The robber got on the train,
il is supposed, at some point above
the city and after passing kenner he
climbed over to the engine and COW
cred the engineer and fireman and
brought the train to a standstli.
When the conductor came forward to
learn the trouble he was shot by the
robber.
r. f. Goldsby, mail clerk, stuck
his head out of the door and was or
dered to jump down, which he did.
Then the tobber led the engineer.
fireman and Goldsby toward the eN-
press car and made one of them blow
the side of it out with stick of dy-
Mantle which he supplied. This trair
carries no money and has no safe.
The robber then made for the mail
car and there discovered Parker, who
had hidden the registered pouches.
He shot at him and then one of the
pouches was produced and he made
off with it.
He uncoupled the engine from the
train and ran it TO a point near Car
-ollton avenue, where he abandoned
it. The robber was evidently well
acquainted with railroading. His
face was blackened and he was man
little less than six feet tall. weigh
ing about $50 pounds. He took Con-
ductor Kline ebrew's watch. Two sus-
poets were arrested. but the railway
mail clerk did not identify them.
TeNarkana, Ark, Dec. 1.-THE mail
car on the northbound Cotton Belt
passenger train Was looted between
Bassetts, Tex, and this city, yester
day. Several registered mail pouches
were cut open and the contents car
ried away. The pouches contained
several valuable packages. Mail
Clerk Dennis was found unconscious
from a blow on the head, when his
train reached TeXarkana. Two men
have been arrested on suspicion at
Naples, Ark, but no trace of the
plumber was found on them.
I'm tho train rta nj
sett's water tank Dennis went into
the vestibule of the mail car to stir
up the fire. When he opened the ves-
tibule door he saw two men standing
by the stove, one of whom dealt him
n terrible blow over the head with 4
heavy fire shovel. The first blow
felled him and he was then quickly
beaten into a senseless condition. He
knew nothing more until he was re-
vived in the Texarkana hospital. He
is in a critical condition.
Examination of the car showed
that the robbers gained entrance by
crawling through the small trap door
in the floor of the vestibule. In the
vestibule is crank with which a per-
son can uncouple the car from an
other, and it is believed it was the in
tention of the robbers to disconnect
and get control of both cars. Off
GERS are on the case, but there is lit
tie to work on, as the men could have
left the car at three different places
before the train arrived here.