The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-08-03
JAMES BOYS OUTDONE.
Passenger Train Held Up just
Outside Chicago.
BANDITS MAKE THEIR ESCAPE

After Going Through Clothes of Ter
rified Travellers They Lock Victims
In Cars and Signal Engineer to Stop
and Jump OFF.
Chicago. Aug. B. The Illinois Cen.
trail train which was held up twenty
five miles from this city consisted Of
two baggage and mail cars, three day
coaches and two sleeping cars. st
Harvey. or somewhere between Har-
vey and Matteson, the bandits boarded
the train Three OF them wore masks.
A fourth man. believed TO be the lead
err and d fifth, who stood guard be-
tween the last day coach and the for
ward Pullman, wore no disguise The
leader and his masked companions en-
tered the forward Pullman, aroused
the occupants ana forced them to 60
to the rear sleeping car, where the pas
sengers also were aroused Here they
were searched for yaluables ana II was
here that one man who resisted was
struck on the head with an Ak and
severely injured
After obtaining the passengers mon,
ey and yauables the bandits locked
their victims in the cars. One Of the
robbers then pulled the emergency bell
rope and the train began to stop. When
the speed had been slackened sufficient
" the robbers leaped Off and ran. The
engineer was not aware that his train
had been robbed until he went back to
learn why he had been signaled to stop.
No attempt was made to rob the mail
or express cars.
The robbers secured more than $1,000
in money and valuables.
g. III Groce, superintendent Of tele-
graphs for the Illinois Central. who
was one Of the men robbed. left the
train at Kankakee aud notified the MI
nois Central railroad detectives in
Chicago The latter notified the cen
trail police, and detectives were sent
out on train to begin the search for
the robbers.
Superintendent Groee's story.
Superintendent Groee's story as told
at Kankakee is as follows:
THE men must have boarded the
train at Harvey, for we were but ! few
miles out when they appeared al the
door Of the last Pullman ana. eursing
the brakeman aud porter ordered them
into the smoking compartment. They
went through the car ana 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 fred
into a berth whose occupant was
slower than the rest He came scram
bling out in a hurry, and the rest re-
sponded more readily TO tile orders
after that
One other passenger a boy eighteen
years Of age, WIS bur PARTLY awasp
and the shot startled him. He. too. NJ.
slow. and when a bandit told him III
get into the aisle the robber struck
him with a Ratchet He was cut %
verely.
~They drove al tile men to me smok
ing compartment and there two 1T them
searched Us while tie others sl0ag |
guard At the doors They took sIml
from me ana $500 from man near u.s..
! guess those were tie largest init. |
vidual amounts they obtained. They I
searched the women Who were vet
awake but did not bother those who
were u the berths where tile curtains
were dra' m the second Pullman
there M niy five Of SIX passengers.
and they ma an experience IKE the
rest Of us j
me train carried many passengers
Tor the II. Louis fair. and al remained
ln the train despite their experience.