Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-09-09
Held Up Man Near Scene Of
Express Robbery.
MAY Be AN EX-EMPLOYE
Detectives Expect to Capture Man
Who is Terrorizing LewlstoWn -
Takes Money and Hat From
Drover and Stops Two Women.

Lewistown, Pa, Sept. 4.-The ban
dit who held up and robbed the Pitts
burg express in the Narrows and
wounded Conductor Poffenberger, and
who has since evaded hundreds of
searchers, is still in the vicinity of his
crime.
Within few miles of where the
train robbery occurred he appeared
and held up Robert Little, a drover,
who was driving with his wife, child
and friend. From Little he obtain
ed $40 in money and hat. The ban
dit also stopped two women and ask
ed if they had any money. When con-
vinced they had not he permitted
them to go.
Many detectives are now searching
the mountain and valley and it is
thought the bandit is cornered.
A former Pennsylvania railroad en-
ploye Of Altoona is suspected as being
the robber.
Superintendent G. A. Preston, of the
Pennsylvania railroad, said that he is
confident that the robber Is insane,
and predicted his capture. Posses
of shopmen have been sent from Milf
With and Huntingdon.
Whether the robber has been pre-
vented from escaping by the search
for him, and has hiding place where
he hopes to remain concealed until
the detectives shall have given UP pur-
suit, is a matter of conjecture.
Detectives on New Trail.
In both the hold-ups he showed
himself to be as fearless as on the
night when, single-handed, he stopped
the express train. 1t has been sug-
gested that because of his mistake in
taking a bag containing $65 in pen.
MES, while he left behind $4,000 in
gold, he is in need of money to make
his escape. The Pinkerton and rail
road detectives who have hurried to
the scene of Little's hold-up believe
the man is desperate, or he would not
have come out into the open.
The man who held up Little in Doe
Trough hollow, a lonely road in the
mountains, three miles west of here,
wore a burlap mask and spoke broken
English. He answered in every way
the description of the bandit who rob
bed the express train. Little, his wife
and child were out for drive. In
Doe Trough hollow the high Black
Log mountain forms the upper side of
the road, and on the lower side there
Is drop of 300 feet into the bed of
the Juniata river. Little was driving
along, with one of his employees walk
ing alongside Of the carriage, when
the bandit walked out of the brush
and drew bead on Little.
Bandit Stops Two Women.
The employe on the opposite side
of the buggy became nervous and be-
gan moving about, when the robber
said: "Ho! you keep still and won't
shoot you."
In addition to the $40, he insisted on
taking Little's hat, which has his
name stamped on the sweatband. Lit
questing him not to take the hat, as
her husband was i'll. She said it
might kill him to drive into town in
the cold night air without head cover.
ing. The bandit said he was sorry,
but that he needed the hat, and must
insist on taking it from Little.
Little says the man is feet inches
high and weighs about 100 pounds. &c
wore a wig of light hair over a head
of black curly hair. Mrs. Little saw
the bandit peering from the bushes
when they passed through the hollow
on their way west.