Missouri Valley times., 1901-08-15
|BElIEvED ROBBERS
HAVE BEEN CAUGHT
Six Men Suspected Of Indian Ter
ritory HoId-up Are in
Custody.
ARE 1RAlLeo BY BLooDHouADs
Bandits Made Poor Haul. Getting .
Couple of Hundred Dollars From
Passengcrs and Only o1.6O
From Express safe

Denison. Tex, Aug. 15.-E. c. Rich-
mond. Bob Afford, George Brown, John
Gibson, Tom Edwards and Jack Barr
have been arrested on the charge of
committing the train robbery on the
Katy" at Caney, 1. II.
j. B. Davis. deputy marshal at Col
BERT 1. T., arrived here last night from
the scene of the holdup. He said in re-
gard to the arrests:
These men We're arrested at Cancy
and taken to Atoka yesterday morn
Ing. The operator at Caney, when he
heard the shooting suspected the train
was being held up and put out the light
IN the depot and telegraphed to Atoka,
eleven miles away, for officers.
within two hours after the robbery
was committed bloodhounds had trailed
these men to their homes. We found
the wet clothing identified by passen-
gers as that worn by the robbers. We
found three masks and found in the
firebox OF the cook stove when the ar
rests We're made the shoes Of the men
arrested. The tracks were measured
and fitted the shoes exactly"
Yesterday afternoon the men We're
given hearing in Commissioner Halls
court at Atoka and their bonds fixed
at $4,000 in each case. They could not
give the bond and were remanded to
Jail.
There We're two men connected with
the robbery who rode away on horse
back and they have not been captured.
Postal Clerk Geo. e. Tuley has finished
Strengthening out the registered mail
taken out Of the pouches and said to
the Associated Press reporter:
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registered packages. There was con-
signment OF $4,000 worth of stamps for
the postofilce at Sherman in the
pouches that were sacked, but these
the robbers did not disturb
The robbers got only $1.50 from the
express safe, as the money had all been
left at Muskogee, to be picked UP by
the territory by day.
The messenger and clerk We're forced
to assist the bandits in their work. Ev-
cry mail pouch was emptied and the
mail considered valuable was taken.
Superintendent Sam Gaines. of the
railway mail service, says he does not
believe the robbers got much money
out of the mail pouches.
Details of tho Holdup.
Denison, Tex. Aug. ia Missouri,
Kansas and Texas passenger train.
southbound. was held up and robbed at
Caney Switch, l. T., at 80 this morn
ing by two men who got on the train
at Atoka. When two miles north of
Caney they craw1ed over the tender
with pistols in hand, covered the en-
gineer and fireman and commanded
them to stop at the Caney water tank
There the men We're joined by three
others, and at this juncture a fusilade
of shots alarmed the crew and passen-
gers. Postal Clerk Tully was compelled
to go through the train carrying q sack
In which valuables We're thrown. Every
passenger was robbed. Then the rob-
press car. Both safes were blown open
with dynamite and the contents Sc
cured. The amount stolen is not yet
known. The robbers got some valuable
jewelry from passengers. They gave q
diamond ring and shirt stud to En-
gineer Lanlam.
After the work was done the robbers
who seemed to enjoy the situation, sat
around and laughed over the matter
The whole affair was carried out with
out hitch and it is believed the men
had experience in this line of business
before. After holding the train for two
hours the robbers left going east in
the Cadense bottoms. The trainmen
cut out the wrecked express car and
ran down to Ceneys Station. advising
officers up and down tine road. Within
two hours posses of United States mar
shalls with bloodhounds We're on the
trail. 1t Is rumored two men have been
captured, but the reports lack verifica-
tion. The express company claims 1t
lost nothing. Conductor Dolan esti-
mates the passengers lost about $780,