The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-29

tleachery, quickly noted the act land
shot the man in the fac with his shot
gun. After the capture of the band
! Cummings and all his men were placed
oil trial and Cummings was sentenced
10 five years in the penitentiary Jim
Roach conductor of the train, who is
living, and employed as nightwat Gilman
by the Wabash railroad in this city. is
the man who shot Cummings in the
! leg.
The only other attempt of the James
soys at robbinS the company during
: the time of Mr.. Fuller was their third
/ hold-up at Blue Cut, near Kansas City.
! ~ 1885. About a year before this hold
W. Mr.. Fuller had installed the through
system on the railroads with which his
| company was doing business. This
I through safe was very large. supposed
u be burglar proof. and had two COM
bihatlons. known only to the agents al
certain points between terminals.
To this system the express company
owes the fsilurc of the robbers TO get "A
100000 treasure which was oni board the
train hello up by them on this particu-
lar Date They stopped the train and
opened the local safe with ease. but
they were foiled when they came to the
through safe. containing the real treas
ure. Neither they nor the messenger
could open IL. neither could they dvna-
mite ii successfully. and were forced to
BE- content with the robbery of the To-
cal safe. which contsined only s74Ta.
RMS robbery ended the career of train
robbers in so far as the PacifR Ex-
press company was concerned.
Numerous other attempts we're made
but they We're unsuccessful. The rob-
bers We're driven from Missouri and
Kansas into Indian Territory. where
they were finally sxterminated Many
attempts at holding up the Missouri
Kansas q Texas trains were made but
all were failures. In this connection
1t is appropriate to mention the hero
ism of one of the most trusted Pacific
express train messengers, John +.
GrimshaW. He was IL five hold ups in
Indian Territory, and was never robbed
once.
Two of these hoId-ups occurred at
Pryor's Creek on the first occasion
the robbers We're unable to get into the
car owing to Grimshaws defense. He
was an excellent shot, and fought the
outlaws TO the death. The second hold
up at Pryor's Greek was better
planned, but no. more successful The
express car was uneoupled' from. the
train and pulled out some distance. on
a 'br1dge. After long fight the rob-
bers broke into the car, but were met
with stubborn resistance from Grim
shaw, who was intFcnched behind a
pile of meat boxes, which made his end
OF the car a VeritabIe fortress. which
was almost impregnable, especially as
1t was impossible for the robbers TO D.
pIOhcn WITHOUT DelllS exposed to the
unerring aim of the messenger
Failing TO dislodge him in battle the
robbers tried to burn him out. setting
fire to the bridge. but he pluckily re-
manned at his post ard again foiled the
attempted robbery of his car. He
never failed of recognition at the hands
OF his company each time he defended
its property and when he quit The
service. some years ago. he could
Doast or "A most remarkable record of
having been in more hold-ups than any
other messenger aid had never been
robbed. -
me company practically lost nothing
10 train robbers, but was often the vic
tim OF dishonest employees in-the money
department in it's various offices. Two
OF these robberies attracted the atten-
zion OF the country at the time and
viii be remembered by many of the
older citizens The Tiiler robbery was
committed In the ST. Louis Offices in
1884. and the daring way ia which IT.
was done was the source Of wonder for
many day. Tilier was a young Ken
tuekian Of excellent percentage. coming
to this city to accept cisrkship in the
depot offices of the company.
immediately after Receiving his an
pqii4tEneht ne made application for pro-
motion 10 be money clerk In the general