The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-08-23
HELD UP A TRAIN.

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Robbers Laughed and Talked as They
Robbed a Train.
a train was hold up AZ d robbed near
Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuesday night.
Tbs express car was blown opon, the
safo wrt oked anu tho mail Baoks riaed,
All the passengers wero robbed Of their
money. El Canoy, wLoro the robbery
occurred, is side track thirty-nino
miles north Of Denison. It is in tho
Chootaw nation OF tho Indian Terri
tory and tho population surrounding
tho station is only 1876. The train
docs not stop at Oaney excopt on signal.
AS tho tho proper signal was given tho
engineer whistlod his reply, and tho
train slowed down for tho stop. In
stcad of tho hurried signal to 60 ahoad,
tho onginecr and fireman were con.
fronted by two mon with mask ed faoos.
About the samo time tho express mos.
songer and tho mail clerk woro COM
municatcd with through the closed
doors of their carl. Threo OF tho rob.
bers ahot wildly and thon the call went
to tho messenger and olerk:
open up hore! Open up and don't
be too slow about i,l'
From within came no response and
the robbers again CALLED out. "Opon
the door or we will blow it opon and
blow you to bolll' Thero wa, no ro-
sponse to tho second call and the firing
again began, fully twenty shots being
diioharsod. Still thore was no re-
sponso, and tho tfrae mon prepared a
small blast Of dynamito against tho Gar
door. In tho meantime the shoot
ing had awakened tho passeng The
conductor, brakemon and porter ran
through tho train, and as they oallod
out: Its hold upl'
The passengers tried to hide their
monoy and valuables. The dynamite
was ut last exploded. It was a small
charge aud was intended more for fright
than anything olso. A larger blast Of
dynamite WAS prepared and exploded.
This tore the side off the express and
mail car I'D the robbers loaped through
the opening, and, overpowered the mes
senger. Flo was ordered to open the
safe, but ho could not, as the combina-
tion was at ond Of tho run. Tie rob-
bers then put charge of dynamite to
tho safe and blow it open. They de-
molished the safe, but peoured only
$1.b0, as tho money had all been left at
Muskogee to bo picked up by the "Katy
hyerr," which runs through the territory
by day, The messenger and clerk wero
forced to assist the bandits in their
work. Every mail pouch WAS emptied
and tho mail considered valuable BY the
robbers was taken, Then with Postal
Clerk Tulloy holding an empty mail
sack, tho robbers won't through the
coaches and robbed every passengor,
They securod $3.50 in ono coach. a
negro Who refuned to give up his money
was severely beaten. The passengers
.werc compelled to throw their valuable
into the pouch, NJ q !5s
After tho work WAS .dono the robbera,
who eeemod to rej Dice ia the situation
eataroandand laughed over the matter
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bottom timber, for which tortuous
Canoy crook ia nosed. The trsinmon.
out out tho wrecked express oar, ran
down to Oaney station and advised off
oors up and down the road. In two
hours q posse Of United States marshsls
with blood hounds were on the trail.
Inc expross company said it lost moth
ing, and the conductor estimates the
pasaengors' loss at about $400, not
counting the jowolry.
THE ROBBERS CAUGHT.
A dispatch from Denison, Tex says:
j. B. Dvais, deputy marshal at Colbert.
|. r., arrived here Wednesday night
from tho aoene Of the robbery at Oaney.
The following men have boon ar.
rosaod on the charge Of committing tho
robbery" said Mr.. Davis: 20. q.
Richmond, Bob Afford, Geo. Brown,
John Gibson, Tom Edwards and Jack
Barr, Those mon were arrested at
Oaney and tsken to Atoka Thursday
morning. The operator at Oaney,
whom he hoard the shooting, suspected
the train was being held up and put out
tho light in the depot and tolegraphed
Atoka, II miles away, for officers.
Within two hours after the robbery
blood hounds had trailed those mon to
their homes. We found the wet cloth
ing identified by passengers as that
worn by the robbers. We also found
three masks and found in tho fro box
Of the cook stove whom the arrests were
made tho Shoes Of the mon arrested.
Tho tracks wero measured and fitted the
ahoes exactly"
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