The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-08-04
ROBBERS HOLD UP
A CENTRAL train
Daring Bandits Rob'Passengera
Of Two Sleeping Cars
and Escape.
GOT MORE THAN $1,000
One Passenger Who Was Slow to Mova
Was Struck on Head by = Ratchet
and Severely Cut-Crew
UnmoIcsted.
GOT MORE THAN $1,000

Chicago, Aug. &.-1Tour hieh%aymen,
all heavily armed. ana two OF them
wearing masks, hel3 up the passengers
on the Illinois Ceutual'S Chicago-St.
Louis train known as the Diamond
Special" as it nearel AIattson. III.
The robbers secured an the money
and valuables carried by the thirty
passengers in the two Pullman sleeping
cars, stopped the train, and escaped III
the darkness.
The forward sleeper was entered first.
the occupants We're aroused. ana with
nothing on but their night clothes were
marched back to the Pullman car be-
hind. of The passengers who We're
slow in responding to the commands of
a hatchet and one was seriously in
jured. 1t is impossible to obtain the
names of the injured passengers.
When the passengers in the two cars
had been lined up in the rear Pullman.
two sf the robbers stood guard. one at
each end of the car, With drawn re-
volvers. The third. who is supposed to
have been the leader. ordered the pas-
sengers, who had been compelled to
bring along their clothes from the first
car, to throw the garments on the floor
OF the car. The passengers in the rear
car were made to return to their berths
and deposit their clothes in the same
'-N''f' lIlS ithtNl'i- WIN lllc IlIllJSI
coolness, began to search the clothing
for V~aluabieS. When he had finished
TINS search he made 4 close eXamina-
ton of the passengers for any money
that they might have secrctad.
Escape OF the Robbers.
When the search had been completed
all the booty was placed in Il flour sack.
and the three robbers joined their COM
pan1ons, who had stood guard in the
lTnCtihllia. nf fl,n too, -, ,II;.- ~. 1,LlI
rope, the signal to the engineer to stop,
was given, and when the speed of the
train had Slackened sufficiently the rob
bers, after having locked the doors of
the car, jumped off and fled in the
darkness.
So systematic was the work of the
robbers and there was so little con-
fusion that the crew was of
what was going on. 1t was not until
the engineer, in response to the signal.
brought his train TO a stop. and seeing
nothing of the remainder of the crew
walked back to the rear of the train to
ascertain what was the matter, that he
learned of the robbery. No attempt
was made to rob the mail or express
cars.
The robbers secured more than 81, 900
in money and ~valuabIes.
+. H. Groce. superintendent of tele-
graph of the Illinois Contra railroad,
VINO was one of the men robbed. left
the train at k~ankakee and notified the
limos Central detectives IN Chicago.
The latter notified the central police.
and detectives We're sent out on a train
TO begin the search for the robbers.
Superintendent Groce's Story.
Superintendent Groce's story, as told
at hanhahee, was as follows:
The men must have boarded the
Tram at Harvey, for We We're but Il few
miles out when they appeared at the
door of the last Pullman and, curSing
the brakeman II porter, ordered them
into the smoking compartment. They
went through the car and ordered all
the men out. At first the men seemed
to think the affair a joke, and did not
hasten. One of the bandits then fired
into q berth whose occupant was slow
CT than the rest. He scrambled out i'll
a hurry and the responses We're more
ready afterWard.
One of the passengers. a boy about
IS years old. was partly awake, md
the shot startled him. He. too. was
slow, and when 4 bandit told him to
get into the aisle the robbel struck him
with q Ratchet. He was cut severely.
They drove all the men to the
smoking compartment, and there two
of them searched us while the others
stood guard at the doors. They took
500 from NE and $500 from a man
near me. [ guess those We're the larg-
est individual they obtained.
They searched the women who were
yet awake. but did not bother those
who We're in the berths where the cur
tains were drawn. In the second Pull
man there were orly five or six passen-
gers, and they had an experience like
the rest of us
The train, which left Chicago at
9:2I o'clock, carried many passengers
for the st. Louis fair, and all remained