Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-08-15
PASSENGER TRAIN
HoLDUP CIV n. P
lcontInued from 80 one.l

eAgM6AN Nhs1 NSF0 uDAhh thc LICK
right"
when they got to where they
wanted the engine stopped they told
rs 70 stand back and the tall man
took the throttle and stopped the
engine. They knew all about how
to handle the engine and were per-
fectIy familiar with every detail OF
handling the train"
When No. eft Rathdrum It was
rs minutes late and the stopping
and uncoupling only caused them to
lose IL minutes. as they passed
through Trent at 1886 .. m. 1t
was 1880 a. m. before the train crew
returned to the engine and mail car
and 1915 a. m. when the special
from Spokane arrived.
The dispatcher at Yardley said that
the headlight was plainly visible
from there for half an hour, but that
it was put ont and could not be seen
after 1880 p. m.
II was badly scared when the shot
was fired at my head in the mailcar
door" said G. Fl. Raymond. when
they told me to run / did not hesl-
tate, but was glad to do It"
Wallace Smith. the other clerk,
said that they held their guns in my
face several times to compel me to
reveal the rest of the money, but /
told them they had all / knew any
thing about"
The mail clerks refused to talk OF
the amount of money secured. Two
sacks OF registered mail we're slit
to pieces and the bundles remain
ing scattered about the car. "All the
packages they got were registered
through mail" said G. Fl. Raymond.
The held-up train was pulled into
the city by its own engine, which was
fired up while the switch engine
went to Moab and pulled the baggage
and passenger coaches to Trent. The
train arrived here at 2:15 a. m. No.
4, the east-bound passenger train,
was delayed here 80 minutes and at
Trent 10 minutes.
The passengers we're not disturbed
and there was not much excitement.
although some of the women were
greatly frightened when they heard
the train had been held up.
II was in the smoking car dis
tributing tickets when the train was
stopped" said N. N. Morris, conduc-
tor of the train, whose home Is at
Hotel Assemble. II went up to
my locker to get out my grip to get
my gun, and my head brakeman
dropped out OF the end of the car
and started forward. The holdup
shot at him and he lodged back
into the rear end of the smoker.
BY that time ] had my gun out and
shot four or five shots out OF the
rear end of the smoker. The men
shot at the car and said, Get back
Their, you! ! did not have time
to shoot any more. as they had the
engine uncoupIed by that time and
drew away.
Know How to Handle Engine.
II should Judge they were expert
enced railroad men, as they seemed
to know how to handle a locomotive.
After the engine and mailcar pulled
away and left us standing about hall
a mile west of Moab, | started back
with TrainmaSterW. T. Lanfrey, who
happened to be on the train, and we
walked to Moab and telephoned to
the train dispatcher in Spokane. My
news was the first that ne had heard
except phone message from Mark
: ham, the rear brakeman, who had al.
ready gone to Otis and telepkoned in
After the engine and mailcar had
gone on with the two hoIdup meI
and one mailclerk found a mar
riding on the top of the smoker anC
; I got him down and held him in tn,
: baggage car to turn over to tn,
J sheriff"
} Brakeman Tells Story.
c. C. Markham, the rear brake
3 man, was in the rear coach wheI
the train slowed up. and he hear,
shots from the front end. 81 wa
just washing up" he said, when
felt the train slowing and knew Their,
was somthing wrong. / put on m,
coat and got on the rear end of tn,
platform. The holdups saw me an
, shot four times in my direction.
lodged around the back of the trail
and climbed in the end of the trail
over the coupling. The conducto
j sent me to Otis to telephone int
d Spokane, and / was the first to SEN
i in the news to him"
Z 81 was in the smoker with Con