The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-17
BILL TO SUPPRESS
TRAIN R0BBER|Es
California Representatives Would
Make the Penalty Death for
the Crime.
THE soUTHERN's KEW LINE
State Corporation Commission
Makes Report on the Earnings
Of Railways.

Mr. Charles Ryan, general passense,
agent Of the Seaboard AIR Line, was IL.
Richmond last night
Mr.. j. B. De F'reist, general agent or
the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
with headquarters at Philadelphia was
in Richmond yesterday.
Mr.. Frank Irish. travelling agent of the
Chicago and Northwestern Railway,
called at the Chesapeake and Ohio Offices
yesterday.
Representative Kahn, of California.
has introduced in Congress a bin pro-
viding for the suppression of train rob
berries In the United States which should
receive the hearty support of all the
railroad companies in its passage. With
IN the past two years some twenty-five
and more different ''hold-ups'' have taken
place on. trains in the West not n few
OF them resulting in the death OF one
or more passengers or trainmen and IN.
loss OF considerable wealth by passen-
gers and express companies There -
no way of melting out punishment to the
Offenders so sure 10 stop this species OF
crime as n severe penalty and GER
tainty that 1t will be inflicted
The bill introduced By Representative
Kahn provides that any person who OBJ
structs or derails or makes ;tn unlawfu.
ASSAULT upon any railroad train, railroad
cars, or railroad locomotive operating
within any State, territory or other piac,
subject to the jurisdiction OF the United
States with the intent to commit muir
der, robbery, or any other felony, or
who, with such intent, makes an unlaw-
ful assault upon any person lawfully on
such train, cars. or locomotive. shall be
punished as follows. If the death OF
any person Is effected or thereby cause,
such offender shall suffer death; IL death
is not caused he shall be imprisoned
not less than five nor more than twenty
years
Any person who attempts to commit:
the offense mentioned above shall be inn
prisoned not less than one nor more thar
ten years. And any person who aids
abets, or incites another to commit either
of the offenses mentioned shall be deemed
u principal offender. 1t Is provided
further that upon the trial of person
charged with the violation OF this act, II
shall not be necessary to prove, nor shall
1T be deemed material to a conviction,
that the defendant or defendants intended
to effect the death of or to rob or commit
felony upon or against any particular
person, but ii shall be deemed sufficient
il it is proved to the satisfaction of the
jury that as a result of such unlawful
act some person or persons had been
killed, robbed, or injured, as the case
may be, or that such act was committed
with the design to commit any crime
The following appointments have been
made in the engineering department OF
the Tidewater and the Deepwater Rail.
ways:
Division cngineers-A l.. Cornell, with
Office at Norfolk. Va: r. y. Houston,
with headquarters at Keysville. Va; f.
A. Jones at Brookneal. Va; w. G. Knowl.
ton Mt Roanoke, Va: w. p. Stalnakcr
at Christiansburg. Va; p. b. Dunn ut
Eggleston, Va; d. W. Crane at Oakdala,
w. Va: and a. d. Ilxall with office al
Matoaka, w. Va.
According TO reports compiled from Off I
.cial sources by the American Iron and
Steel Association. the production of all
kinds OF rails in the United States in
1905 amounted to 3,3722o7 gross tons,
against 22Si,I1l tons the preceding year.
an increase of l,0S7,5iG tons, or AIS per
cent. The maximum production WAC
reached last year, 1903 being the wear of
next largest production, when 2,99241
tons We're made. The increase last year
over two years ago amounted to 379,TSd
tons. or over IL per cent. Pennsylvania
led all other States in4rail production. 1t
furnishing 1,l13S4l tons almost all being
Bessemcr rails. Alabama rolled almost
all tho open hearth rails that were rolled
last year. when the total production OF
the country was 1Ss3A tons by this pro-
cess. Last year the total of Bessemer
rails produced was a.1ss,G7a tons, Of which
S,1a5.7&0 tons was supplied ny makers or
domestic ingots. In no preceding year
had these manufacturers turned out more
than 100000 tons,