The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-05-28
ROBBERS LOOT
EXPRESS CAR
Beat Messenger with Revolver And
Then Tie Him Up
securely.
BOLD CRIME NEAR SEATTLE.
Bandits Wear The Uniforms of Brake
men and Allay Sus-
picion
BOLD CRIME NEAR SEATTLE.

SEATTLE, Washington, May H.
1t is now certain that the train rob-
bers got away with more money than
was at first thought. 1t is acknowled-
ged that $4,000 was taken, besides a
package belonging to the Great North
, ern, which may contain $4,000 or
more. The express officials will not
say what amount was contained in the
package, but that it amounted to con-
siderable was evident from the prompt
manner in which d. s. Elliot, general
manager of the Great Northern Ex-
press Company, offered a reward Of
$2500 for the arrest and conviction OF
the robbers.
SEATTLE, CWash.), May 12.-E. j..
Perrine, the Great Northern express
messenger on the train which left Sc
attic at $40 this morning for Van
| couver, B. c., was beaten over the head
with his own gun and tied hand and
foot by two men who entered the train
just as it was leaving Seattle, and who,
after overpowering the express mes
| senger, looted the strong box of a sum
of money estimated at from $1,000 to
$4,000. The robbers escaped.
Just as the train was pulling out
from the King-street station in Seattle
two men dressed in brakemen's uni
forms entered the express car. Per-
rtne paid little attention to them, sup
posing they were train hands. AS be
was STOPPING over his strong box,
which was unlocked, one of the men
snatched Perrine's revolver from his
pocket and struck him over the head
He did not lose consciousness, but was
beaten until he was powerless, al
though still able to know what was 60
ing on. The highwaymen then tied him
hand and foot with heavy wrapping
cord and proceeded to loot the strong
box.
Perrine wac not discovered until the
train was some two miles out of Bal
lard. Brakeman Latham entered the
car and found the messenger bounu
and with towel wrapped around his
head. He notified the conductor and
the train was backed 70 Ballard, where
Assistant Division Superintendent N.
G. Chapman was notified The brake
mans cap worn by one of the robbers
was found In the car. The name of
Anderson is written in ink in the
inside. 1t is presumed that the rob-
Der stole it. One of the robbers was
tall, slender man, whom Perrine
thinks he had seen before, although he
is unable to say where. Both men
were young.
A satchel containing 5000 in nickels
dropped by the robbers, was recovered
at a point near Interplay station, where
the hold-up men jumped from the
train. William D. Smart and Elmer
Boyd, two Interplay residents, saw the
robbers jump from the moving train,
and aroused by their suspicious ac-
tions, watched the two climb the hill
and board Kinnear Park street car
bound for Seattle. Smart and Boyd
then walked to the point where the
robbers jumped from the train and in
a clump CT bushes found the grip con-
tanning the nickels.
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deal as 1t has everything else so far
uneventfully. We went right along at
the usual 400 yards distance, and with
no variation from the strict require
ments of any other day.
1t is two hundred miles from Sandy
Point to Cape Pillar, the west end Of
the straits. We covered that distance
in twenty hours. read somewhere
that the last sailing vessel to go
through made it in eighty-six days!-
Lieutenant-Commander Philip An
drews, Executive officer U. S. S. Kan
sas, Special Correspondent for Har-
pers Weekly.
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