The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-12-19
TRAIN ROBBERS
Assaulted a Postal Clerk and
Rfisd tbs Mail Bags.
BANK ROBBERS FAILED.
In Another Hotdup en- Outskirts
Of Ntw Orleans. Con-
ductoY Kinne brew
Was Shot
Was Shot

A bold robbery on the Cotton Bet
railvsy occurred Thursday at Basse;ts,
| Texas. 80 miles south Of TeZa:ksoe. on
the tram coming north, il which Pos
| tai Clerk jobs n D4nnis WAS almost
killed szd tie aail scucass OF his car
r,had Of their oontcgss The amount
stolen is not knoer.
As the train lefs thc BaeSetts water
tank at S. s. NJ, the express and mai!
csrs =ere separated from the train but
the train crew soon had them coupled
| up again. In tie run from there to
Tc1aIkara the coaches we're uoccupled
twice in q very my mgsterious manner.
Oa arrival Of the train at TeZarkana
the United States transfer clerk knocked
at sbe door Of the mail car bus got no
response. Officials then forced an en-
trance and fcuud the clerk, John n.
Dennis stretshsd upon the floor sppar
emily dead. A Iu,red examination
showed that the registered packages
had been opened ard robbed of their
contents, the most valuable ce |5;ch
was the Waco Memphis through
pouch. containing large number Of
valuable packages.
A physician was GENT for spd it wss
found that Dennis was alive but un-
conscious. Au usly wound in the top
Of his head told the story. Two hours
after he was taken to the hospital he
revived sufficiently to give the details
Of the robbery.
Just as the train parted ct Bsssetts'
tank Dennis went into the vestibule OF
the mail car to stir up the ere. When
be opened the vestibule door he saw
two men standing bY the stove, one Of
whom dealt him terrible blow over
the head with heavy FIRE shovel. The
first blow felled him spd he vas then
quickly beaten into serse|ese condi
,lon. He knew nothing more until he
vas revived in the Texarsana bospisai.
He is in critical coalition.
Examination Of the car showed that
the robbers gained entrapce By crawl
ing through a small trap door in the
Hoor Of the vestibu|e. In the Vestlbu'e
is q crsnk With which a person can
unoouple the car from another, and it
is believed it wss the intention Of the
robbers to disconnect and get eontroi
of both cars. 1t is impossible to tell
What the robbers secured, hat it ia be-
lieved they made good haul.
Officers are on tho case, but there ls
little to work on, as the men could
have left the car at three different
places before the train arrived here.
HELD Up 4 TRAIN.
The southtouDd illinois Central
East Mail" due as NeR Orleans at
7.l5 p. NJ, was held up and robbed by
lone train robber about one mile cut
side the city Thursday night.
His booty consists Of one registered
mail pouch from Dursnt, Miss, and
six other registered letters from points
between Cairo and New Orleans Con
duotor K,nnebrew was shot IN the
groin and J. G. Parker, TailRsy mail
clerk, has his left eye powder burned
By q shot directed at his head. After
passing KeDncr, small station, the
robber climbed to the engine, covered
the engineer and fireman snd brought
the tram to standstll. When the
conductor came for.ard he was shot
by the 1obber r Z Go!dsby, one Of
The railway mail clerks, was ordered
to get out of his car. The roboer led
the engineer, fireman aud Goldsby to.
ward the express csr snd made one Of
them blow the safe open with stick
Of d, Dami,e which he supplied. N
money vas fcuId here. rhe robber
! then made for the mail car and there
d!scov, red P.Tker, who had hidden the
registered pouches. He shot at Par
ker and then one of the pouches vas
produced and he made of with it. de
| uocoupled the engine from the train
and ran i, to C,rrollton avenue where
it was abandoned.
BANK ROBBERS FAILED.
-Four masked men discovered IN the
act of dyDamitiDg the vaults of John
Docrschuck' private bank at Shsnes.
vile, Ohio, early Thursday drove of
all who attempted to interfere aod got
away with between So 900 and 81 600.
An explosion Of nitro glycerine about
3 a. n, awakened John Rhodes, who
lives opposite the back. Rhodes saw
two men working at the vault doors
while two others stood guard at the
main entrance of the bank building
Rhodes, revolver in hand, rushed into
the street aDd was met BY Volley
from the sentinels.
Dozens of the inhabitants apresred
only 10 be greeted By shower Of bul
let's. The robbers removed the doors
of the vault and pricd open the money
drawers. Danping the species into
bags they backed TO ths railroad
tracks and disappeared on haId car
which they abandoned between here
and Baltic. Bloodhounds were secured
and a largo posse at once started on
tbs trail.