Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-09
SAVED BY FREIGHT CREW
Baltimorean Owes His Life to Their
Timely Discovery.
FOUR MEN IN ROBBER GANG
Come to This City and Later Go to
Alexandria-Police on
the Lookout.

Assaulted, robbed and left on tie rail-
road tracks to be killed by approach
ing train was the experience last evening
of William Gable, a Baltimorean.. who
was on his way to this city to find en-
ployment. Fortunately for Gable mem
bers of a crew of a local freight train
found him in time to save his life. They
lifted the unconscious man from the
tracks and saw that he was taken where
he would be cared for.
Gable was walking along the tracks of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad a sho!>
distance north of Beltsville when -.e
had the experience which came near cost
ing him his life. He was robbed of what
money he had, about SO. and was severely
beaten. Four roughly dressed men,
strangers in the vicinity of Beltsville,
boarded an electric car there about
O'Clock, shortly after Gable had been as
sau!ted. and came to this city.
Deputy Sheriff Thomas Garrison learned
of the affair about s o'clock and tele-
phoned to Inspector Boardman to have
the police make effort to apprehend the
men, giving fairly good descriptions or
them He came to the city later and
learned that men answering their de-
scription had been seen in hnchroom
in d street last night. This morning he
returned here and learned that four men
answering the descriptions of the high
waymen had spent the night in Alexan-
dria. This afternoon he went to Alex
| andria to make an effort to trace them.
Walked to Save Fare.
Last night when Gable regained his
| senses he related the story of his rough
experience. He had been employed in Bal
! timore, he stated, by the firm Of Wana-
maker &, Co., but recently he lost his en-
ployment and thought he would come here
| to get work.
| 81 had only about So" he said, land
| thought 1 would need it after l reached
| Washington, and the only way 1 could do
| so was to walk the forty miles,
Shortly before he reached BeltSv1lle, he
| stated, he noticed four men walking
along the tracks in the direction Of this
| city. He was on one side of the tracks
/ and they We're on the other. Suddenly.
| he stated the largest man Of the four
walked over toward him, grabbed him
| and called to his companions: I've got
| him"
Gable says he knew nothing more until
| after he had been rescued by the crew OF
| the freight train. He then regained con-
| sciousness. His story was related to the
| members of the crew and they saw that
he was taken to the home of Charles
Kicks. 1t was found that Gable was
| suffering from a severe injury to his head,
|
number of minor cuts and bruises about
| his body.
Arrived Just in Time.
Deputy Sheriff Garrison hurried to the
| house Of Mr.. Kicks and saw the wounded
man. The latter repeated the story Of the
assault and robbery and told about how
| the men were dressed. Two of them, he
stated. wore caps. while the others wore
sloucsl hats. 1t is thought Gable would
probably have been k lied had not the
| members of the freight crew appeared
near the scene of the crime SO shortly
| after it was committed. They stopped
| near there to take a siding and it was
| while they were leaving the main track
| that they saw the wounded man lying
| where an incoming train would probably
| have killed him.
| Descriptions of the men supposed to
| have committed the CT me were furnished
the local police and the latter are as
sisting the Prince George county authori-
| ties.