The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-02
TRAIN ROBBED
NEAR CHICAGO
Four Bandits Went Through the
Pullman Passengers,
OLD HANDS At THE BUSINESS
VALUABLES CARRIED AWAY IN
A FLOUR SACK.
OLD HANDS At THE BUSINESS

CHICAGO, Aug. -Four highway
IL men, all heavily armed and two of
them wearing masks, held up the
Passengers on the Ilin0is Central Chi
cagO-St Louis express train No. l.
Eeared Matteson tonight. The robbers
secured all the money and vaIua bIes
carried by the thirty passengers in the
Two Pullman sleeping cars. stopped the
train and escaped in the darkness. The
forward sleeper was entered first. the
occupants aroused. and with nothing
on but their night clothes were marched
back TO the Pullman car behind Two
Of the passengers who were slow in
responding TO the command of the
robbers were hit on the head with a
hatchet and one was seriously injured
II IS impossible tonight to obtain ths
names Of the injured passengers
Two Stood Guard.
When the passengers in the two cars
mad been lined up in the rear Pullman
two Of the robbers stood guard. one at
each end of the car. with drawn re-
VOlVers- The third. who is supposed 10
have been the leader. ordered the pas
seugers. who had been compelled TO
bring along their clothes from the
first car to throw the garments on the
the rear car were then commanded to
return to their berths and deposit their
clothes IN the same heaD. Then the
leader with the utmost GOODNESS began
70 search the clothing for vaIua HES
When he had finished this search he
made a close examination of the pas
sengers for any money that they might
nave secreted. When the search had
been completed all the booty was
placed in -four sack and the three
robbers joined their companion, who
rad stood guard in the vestibule Of
the train.
Escape of Robbers.
Pulling the bell rops. the signal to the
titSileeI 10 stop was given. and when
the train had slackened sufficiently the
robbers. after having locked the doors
# the car, jumped off and fled in the
darkness.
So systematic was the work of the
robbers and it was done with SO little
confusion. that the train crew was un-
aware of what was going on It was
not until the engineer. in response to
The signal brought mis- train to a stop.
and, seeing nothing Of the remainder of
me crew. walked back to the rear of the
train to ascertain what was the matter.
tnat he learned Of the robbery
NO attempt was made TO rob the mail
or express cars.
The robbers secured more thar 81 600
in money ard valuableS-
Detectives Notified.
G. II GrOce. superintendent OF teIe-
graph OF the Illinois Central who was
one of the men robbed. left the train
at kankekee and notified the Illinois
Central detectives in Chicago
The latter notified the central police
and detectives were sent out on a train
TO begin search for the robbers.
Superintendent Groce's story given out
at kaRkekee was as fOlIoys-
The robbers must have boarded the
train at Harvey. for we We're but a few
miles out when they appeared at the
door OF the last Pullman, ana. cursing
the brakeman and porter. ordered them
into the smoking compartment They
went through the car and ordered all the
men cut At first the Zen seemed to
think the affair joke and did not hasten.
one OF the bandits then fired into a
berth whose occupant was slower than
the rest he came scrsmbIing out in a
hurry and the rest responded more read
ily to the orders after that
Struck With a Ratchet
"One other passenger. a boy about IS
years old. was partly awake and the
shoe startled him. He. too. was slow.
and when a bandit told him to get INTO
the aisle the Tobber struck him with
a Ratchet. He was cut severely
They drove all the men into the smok-
ink compartment and there two Of them
searched US while the others stood guard
in the doors They took 500 from me
and $500 from a man near me I guess
those were the largest individual amounts
they obtained. They searched the wo-
men who were Yet awake, but did not
bother those who were in ne berths
were the curtains were drawn In the
second Pullman there were only five or
six passengers. and they had II expert
enoe like the rest of US
The train. which left Chicago at s:27
o'clock carried many passengers for tie
St. Louis fair. and all remained on the
train despite their experience