Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-31
DARING ROBBER
HOLDS Up Train N
Single Handed, Stops Pennsyl-
vania Express and Takes
Thousand Dollars.
He LEFT 5000 in BULLION j:
Dynamite Placed Between TRACKS
Had Not Train stopped, Would
Have Been Blown Up.

IeN4stown, Pa, Aug. 3D. Single
handed, a daring robber stopped the
Eestbound Pittsburg 8 Northern ex-
press on the Pennsylvania railroad at
) Iewistown Narrows, eight miles east OF
here, at o'clock this morning, and
! robbed the express car OF 81, 200
rs In gold and escaped to the
mountains The robberi was forced
\ to leave $4,000 in bullion on this
4 mountain side where the fireman Of
y the train had been forced to carry it.
passengers having appeared, armed ana
ready to give battle to the holdup. The
8 train consisted Of two engines. three
& express cars and two sleepers. A signal
cap placed on the track brought the
tram to q stop. Engineers ] ohm Long.
b and Balzer Beahm, both Of Altoona, an
alighting from their cabs, were con-
! fronted by a masked man with two re-
4 Nolvers who ordered hands up
While there We're thousands OF dol
lars In the express car, the robber Is
believed to have obtained only s110.
With this he escaped to the mountains;
The railroad company is using a pack
of bloodhounds and the capture of the
desperate Is believed to be almost a
certainty. The dogs are owned by the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad and are kept
for just such an emergency.
The robher. who was masked and pos
sessed of remarkable GOODNESS. cowed
the railroad men completely, the only.
N show of resistance being made by the
conductor, saac r. Poffenberger, who
was shot through the hand.
Conductor I. r. OffenberEer OF Har-
risburg came sup and, taking in the
situation. started to run for the rear of
the train. The robber fired five shots
at him, one taking effect in the right
hand. He then ordered the express car
opened, threatening to blow it up with
dynamite If not obeyed. The car was
Il opened and at the direction Of the rob
4 her the money bags were carried to the
side of the tracks 1t is thought about
= 81, 900 was obtained. Several of the
bags contained pennies which We're
found later near the scene Of the hold,
up . v 81
I Only ore mann vas seen by the train
men. Later legation disclosed six
sticks of dynamite between the tracks
at the point where the cap exploded
T. This is accepted as evidence that 1t was
the intention Of tho robber to blow UP
\ the train.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
Pittsburg. Pa, Aug. 31.-The officials
of the Pennsylvania railroad here con-
firm the robbery of train No. 70 near
Lewiston. Pa. early today. The fol-
lowing statement was authorized:
From reports at hand noWsit APP
Il pears the rober--there was only one
did not get much money. In the ex-
press car was more than IS. 00f{in bull
lion as we'll as a large amount of Lin
highWayrnan was compelled todrop the
z bullion in order to escape.
The train was known as tie Pitts
burg and Northern Express 1t left
Philadelphia shortly after o'aock last
night About 1880 o'clock tbs morn
ing, when near the Lewiston Narrows,
on the middle division. 1t wa held up
by masked i1ighwayman
The train was halted by a n explosion
OF: dynamite which slightly damaged
the ensine Before 1t could b realized
Just what had happened tln robber,
y with heavy revolvers in eachs hand
was in control OF the situat ioa.
LATER STATEMENT.
In a later statement the railroad Of
q flciaIs say: K;
s'l4.$s..ssWhen the dynamite, placed on the
track by the highwayman, exploded the
headlight glass and windows of the en-
gine cab were broken. One. ran was
torn UP also. VI
EFT Is impossible to say at this time
Just how much money the robber took,
but one bag of pennies and severaF bars
4 Of gold. valued at $1,000 have been
found on his trail. !"
TRAIN ARRIVES. 3s
Pittsburg, Aug. 31.-Train No. ., the
Pittsburg and Northern Express, sn the
L Pennsylvania railroad. which WIS held
up near Lewistown early this Morning,
arrived at the union station here at
Q: 20 a. m.
Messenger Harper made a reiort to
j the local officials in charge pf the
Adams Express company at the union
station and then with a number OF
& detectives started back for the scene
4 of the holdup. g
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