The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-08-01
co THROUGH A TRAIN
Bold Band Of HoId-up Men Make
Trip Through Western Train
on Saturday Night
DARING ROBBERY COMMITTED
Leader of Band After the Passengers
Had Been Robbed Waves Adieu
to the Members of Train
Crew and Gets Away


The boldest series of robberies ever
known in Kenosha were committed
on last Saturday evening when band
of five hold-up men went through the
train on the western division of the
North Western leaving here just after
four o'clock and reports received up to
the present time indicate that the
band of hold-up men got a good deal
of booty as result of their daring
work.
The city was filled up with railway
detectives Monday, four Of the
regular officers coming to the city to
make an effort to get some clue to the
guilty parties. The extent of the
losses Of the passengers has not been
made public as the agents of the rail-
way company refuse to discuss the
matter and all day Sunday they de-
clared that no hold-up Of the passeng
ers had taken place. One of the VIC
TINS of the robbers was Hans Harbert,
the we'll known Kenosha painter,
whose pockets were trisked for SIS.
Four other victims, all Chicago neI,
reported losses of $32, SIS, Sal and $23.
The passengers who have made re-
port of the robberies are thought to be
only a few of those who fell under
the Vaccinations Of the hold up gang.
The robbery was certainly one Of
the neatest ever pulled off in Kenosha
and it's claimed that it was done by
followers of the circus in the city
Saturday. When the train was max
ing up at the station on Saturday
afternoon the crowd was a record
breaker and when the train came ia
from Chicago it brought more than
hundred Chicago people bound for
the lakes. in the western part of the
county. The cars on the train were
filled to their capacity and before the
train started to pull out the platforms
were filled.
Five men led by man who was
conspicuous on account of his cloth
ing, boarded the front platform of the
train, and one of the number began to
push his way into the car. The gang
went from one end of the train to the
other, pushing and showing the
crowded passengers, and in every car
they managed to get into someone's
pocket. The workings of the gang
we're clearly observed by several peo-
pie on the train, but no one made an
outcry against them, and the men
who had suspected them of being
nold-up men made no outcry against
them.
Just as the train was clearing the
switch west of the station the man
who had evidently been the leader OF
the band, leaped off the train, and
turning round he waved an adieu to
the train crew. "Have a good time
over Sunday" he shouted, as he
jumped from the platform Of the last
car, land we will do the same. =
The other members of the gang
jumped off at convenient places inside
the city limits, and they got together
soon after and undoubtedly divided
the swag.
The robbery of the passengers was
not discovered until after the train
had passed Pleasant Prairie, and no
report of it was made to the officials
of the city or county. 1t is declared
that the matter was to be kept secret
by the officials of the railway until
their detectives could get on the
grounds. All efforts to get the names
of the Chicago men robbed were with.
out avail. The Kenosha police heard
of the robberies late Sunday afternoon
and started work on the case, but not
withstanding the work of the railway
detectives and the local officials no
arrests had been made up to late
hour Wednesday afternoon.
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