Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-21
THUGS BEAT
TRAINMAN
AND ROB
HIM
Pacific Electric Grew Suf-
ferS for Second Time
in "a Hours
POSSES ARE ON HUNT
M. D. McMann, Brakeman, Is
BrutaIly Assaulted by Three
Highwaymen
Especial to The Herald


II ASADENA, Dec. 2O.-For the Sec
ond time within twenty-four
4 hours, a member Of a Pacific
Electric train crew of train No. 81 was
brutally beaten and robbed between
Oneonta Junction and Arcadia at 10
o'clock tonight. The injured man is
NJ. D. McMann, brakeman, living at
Francisco apartments, s31 Francisco
street, Los Angeles. He is now at the
Pacific Electric Emergency hospital
here and Is seriously injured.
McMann was member of the freight
crew that was held up near Arcadia at
2:1O o'clock this morning in which
Brakeman Cox was beaten and robbed
of $37. After regaining consciousness,
he said that the attack on him was
made by three unmasked men at San
Marino Junction, two Of whom he had
seen and identified as the men who
robbed Cox early this morning. The
third man he said was tall, wearing a
| black mustache.
Two Posses Out
One posse from Pasadena ana
| OOuLn 1dSdICllcl dllO elLONAASA POSSS
from the sheriffs office in Los An
geles are now searching for the rob-
! bers.
| McMann is rear brakeman on the
Pacific Electric freight train that runs
between Los Angeles and the towns
along the line toward Monrovia. There
is a switching station at San Marino
| % ,en noI
close to the place where Henry f.
Huntington, president of the road, is
building his handsome country home.
Tonight the freight was in charge of
| Conductor T. A. Fisher and McMann
/ had been put iu the harness 70 replace
! brakeman Cox. who was h,J over tho
/ head early tn's morning and robbed,
/ and N2torman FranE Strong.
/ There vas switching 10 be done at
/ san Marino Junction, and NnCann was
/ sent back do.5n the acE tT .rotect
the rear of the train anu signal.
When the switching was completed the
motorman whistled for McMann to
join his train, but he failed to ap-
pear. Fearing that somethi : had
happened to the brakeman, the rest of
the train crew walked back along the
track and found McMann lying un-
conscious on the right of way with
his body partially across the rails.
Heavy Instrument Used
The brakeman evidently had been
struck across the back of the neck
with a heavy instrument and, after
being rendered unconscious, robbed.
He was wearing overalls. These had
heen pulled down and his pockets
turned inside out.
hurry call was sent to the Pasa-
dena police and to the Pasadena car
barns, where a car had been held In
readiness in expectation of repetition
of the early morning holdup. -Four
nolicemen were sent out on the car
and other officers were picked up in
South Pasadena. Los Angeles also was
notified and special car was sent Co
the scene with posse from the sheriff's
office.
| McMann was taken to the Pacific
Electric emergency hospital here, and
at midnight, two hours after the hold
nm. he was stiu unable to stand on his
! feet. The physicians fear that the blow
! on the back of his neck injured his
spine and were unable to give an abso-
! lutte statement as to the extent of his
injuries.
II only had a second to see these
fellows" said the injured man to one
of his TEAMMATES after he reached the
| hospital. Il heard one Of them say:
! You're brakeman on No. 81. l guess
Wen get even with that bunch
| 1.-TWO of the men were the same two
that did up Conductor Cox on the run
! this morning. That I'm sure of. None
! of them was masked, and there was
| third man with a black mustache. l
don't believe they got more than half
dollar or so out of me. 1 only had
some small change in my pocket but
they cleaned me out"