Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-16
AN. EXPRESS CAR MYSTERY
Messenger Lane Found Lying
Y In a Pool of Blood,
|8HT BULLETS IN THE CORPSE
Safe Open and Contents
& Stolen.


<}olumbus, O., Aug. 1l.-A daring
order and robbery were committed on
I0jbnnsylvanis passenger train No.
lob, arrived here from st. Louis
40 O'Clock last night. Charles
an Adams Express messenger,
lrly of st. Louis, but recently q
PIT Of Columbus, was shot and
d shortly before the train reached
Dnion station In this city, and the
safe was Iot bed of all the money
valuables which it contained. This
ybers escaped, and, as they were not
W by any living person 60 far as now
lpwn, the affair is shrouded in mys-
~. How much booty the robbers
buried is purely matter OF specu-
tien. The safe robbed contained only
ckages Of money and vsluables col
6tsd after the train left st. Louis,
ID the officials of the express company
1rst that the sum was not large All
4 money forwarded from st. Louis
7 points. west was in a sealed safe,
oh was not disturbed by the rob
b, probably for the reason that they
4 not have time.
The crime was not discovered until
n train pulled into the Union station
NJ When Extra Messenger Sheldon
he Adams transfer office at the
lon went to the car. he was sur
\ I'd to find the side door, which IS
r. lily opened by the messenger as
&rain pulls into the station, closed.
aSAing the door back, Sheldon was
~ led by the sight of lane's body
lIf face downward in pool Of blood
zen the stove and the side of the
q ~ the forward end. The body was
l to have been riddled with bull
and there was evidences of
fate struggle having taken place.
}<s than eight bullet wounds we're
1 three In the right side of the
|0|X one in the left side and four in
(Rht leg. 1t seemed that two of
llets might have been fred into
mpn's back as he lay on the floor.
4builets extracted were OF So
Ieie The robbers bad taken the
W the local safe from the mes.
66&Xs pocket, opened the safe and
c1G 1t of everything of probable
The key was left sticking in the
Dor. The messengers revolver,
g. 3wo chambers emptied, was found
Hafe, whers it had probably been
2by the robbers after being
41ed from his bands.
Hmurder was probably committed
b Ter the train left Milford Centre,
Ia west of Columbus, where il is
4x8 the robbers boarded the train.
oldStor Taylor saw and talked with
6Rer Lane there. When the body
~ "a tovered here, IL was cold, and
n ,6ed clothed, showing that death
N p66urred at least half an hour
!xt}Q0Aly. Lane had washed and
IA08&d his clothes preparatory to
4&yN the train when attacked by
n 16l5ers. This he probably did near
(! Centre. The robbers had no
]zl4IllN In getting into the car after
ltEg the train, as the end door
AS3n left open, on account of the
@ he train made only two stoEs
M ilford Centre and Columbus,
IL I'm Hahn City and the other at
~ k{j6 Cliff, the latter five miles out
X lte qity. At the latter place, the
Hi4 VHs tagged to take ON pas
6f2; ID old man. The police were
IL nplined to the belief that the
IN got on the train at Marble
hut the express officials do not
ft&yHIn that theory. They think it
Ak s$sly that the robbers got off
~ the train slowed ur coming
VA sity.
III! city detectives were i'm
sent out along the line Of
~ n IlrcAd, and they are securing all
|P nHt Qhboring country. How many
!kI]Srs here were -is not known, but
IA considered certain there we're at
nS tHo, because of the number of
l}Ile}a ared into the body of the ex-
'e>8 1agsenger.
f3gl his morning, two tramps were
" a box oar near Marble Cliff
ID Gf9n on suspicion, but it is not
NJ ieyed they had anything to do
(ths prime.
AS66 The murdered messenger, was
Jye1fg old, and leaves a wife and