The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-05-27
BOLD HIGHWAYMEN
HOLD up AND ROB
UNION PACIFIC MAIL
Escape Was Made in Automo-
bile or Express Wagon
Shoot at Brakeman.

oiletiS%J &NSD.p May sO.-1U Splte OF
the vigorous search for the four
masked men who held up and robbed
the Union Pacific train No. 2, Satur.
day night n tool seven sacks of mai!
from he train. the officers have re-
ceived no tangible clews.
John P. Maurer, OF New York city,
"A passenger, had not retired when the
train was stopped. Expecting that the
robbers would go through the cars and
rob the passengers, Mr.. Maurer
jumped to the ground and hid In the
weeds by h side of the track He
witnessed the robbery of the mail car,
He remained in the weeds until a
daylight. Mr.. Maurer heard an auto
mobile soon after the robbers disap-
peared. but did not see it. He sup
posed it belonged to the robbers, but
this theory Is not accepted by the au-
thorities, who believe it was the one
In which the police made their first
search for the bandits.
John Faville, an employe of a stove
factory at Ralston, vas walking to his
home in South Omaha and about mid
night was passed by four men In an
express wagon headed for South Oma-
eral belief that these were the train
robbers Faville was unable to furnish
any definite description of the men.
HOW THE ROBBERS
HANDLED THE JOB
Omaha, Neb. May 26.-The Linz
tied was coming into Omaha over the
Lane cutoff and had reached a point
this side Of Seymour when two masked
men crawled owe the tender into the
cab of the engine and forced Engineer
Ellick r. Micheljohn and Fireman Her
man PraWl to throw up their hands.
After they had searched for weapons
they were told to run the train a little
further and stop. the place Of stopping
having been planned with reference to
the waiting automobile.
A third robber soon appeared on the
scene and was Joined by a fourth as
soon as the train stopped. Taking the
engine crew along with them the rob-
bers went to the mail car and found
the door open. They fired a couple
of shots and brought the eight mail
clerks to the door of the car where
they were soon confronted with guns
and lined up and searched for weap-
ons.
The robbers, after lining up the mail
clerks, forced the engine crew to carry
seven sacks Of registered mail to the
waiting automobile, and as soon as the
seven sacks were loaded. the four
Jumped in the automobile and started
for the north.
NJ. G. Wallace, known to his friends
F"' eP u LII lit UdCh
part of h train. but did not get up
to the robbers in the front of the
train because of the fusillade of bull
lets which was sent toward the back
of the train by the robbers.
Let Passengers Alone.
The train vas not delayed more
than is minutes by the robbery and
only three passengers. who were still
up and expected to get off at Omaha
knew OF the robbery, as all the other
were in their beds. The train arrived
in Omaha at 11:55 and at 1920 ". T.
Canada and members of the Omaha
police force left the Paxton hotel In
the police automobile in search of the
robbers.
When the robbers climbed over the
terder they had handkerchiefs over
their faces and guns in their hands
The engineer ordered them to put the
guns away. thinking they were only
hoboes. The robbers soon convinced
the engine crew that there was no
foolishness about the affair and after
the train had been run to the street
where the automobile was awaiting
they were ordered to stop the train
and to jump off. The orders were
aobeyed.
Brakeman Crisis came the nearest
to any of the train crew to injury In
the mix up. He was on the rear end
.of the trail, and When it stopped he
Immediately started to walk back from
the train with his lantern. He was
s.fired on a dozen times, and the bullets
whizzed close to his head, and tore uI
the ground all around him, but none OF
chem struck him.