The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-27
=. Desperad0es Board Butte-Port-
ind Soecial Near Five Points and
BrutalIy Rob the Pas
Sengers
hrs no NOT SPARE THEIR GUNS IN
BEATlNG VICTIMS INTO SUBMISSION
.y Person in Day Coaches Relieved of Money;
Search of Express Car Yields Comparatively
Small Return; Officers i'm Pursuit

keys, the robber pressed the bagsageman
into service by making him take and
! hold sack Into which the loot was
| tossed,
Ia The robbery of the cxprsss car the
bandits mislaid plans 10 rob section l
OF the same train. which carried con-
| siderable money and valuables, devel-
opcd AS the bandit compelled the bag
| gagcman 10 undo a few packages and toss
| them INTO the sack he was carving the
robber remarked that he and his pals
| this car, but the search would bc made
| anyway. They saw the money go out in
the express car of the first section, the
robber said, but they were unable TO
| board this train.
Done with the express car. the bendit
passed on to the first day coach. con-
gers. his pals firing their revolvers into
| the air al frequent intervals to keep the
occupants of the Pullmans from leaving
| their berths. With drawn revolver the
lone highwayman compelled the day
| coach passengers TO stand and deliver,
the bagSageman frisking them and pill
ing the loot into the sack. The second
day coach and the chair car were gone
! through in the same manner. but no loot
was secured in the latter car.
Passenger Brutally Assaulted.
In the robbery of the first day coach
Mitchell Merlin. bound for Butte, was
found asleep. The bandit punched him
in the ribs to awaken him. and when the
! half awakened man inquired what was
wanted the robber dubbed him over the
head with his revolver Then Merlin
was relieved OF his money but his gold
| watch, which had been concealed in his
| hose was not found.
| Through with the chair car, the bandit
turned his attention 10 the first Pullman.
+, but the conductor OF the train, who was
| in a day coach when the robbery OF the
| train started, had got away and gone
| through the Pullmans, warning the half
| awakened terror stricken passengers To
| Oft Is
| consequently the loot was hard TO find
and the bandit gave the search of the
| hrst Pullman up as a bad job and alght-
| ing. Joined his pals standing guard over
| fed, firing several shots into the rear
of the train, two Of which put out the
rear lamps and others OF which broke
| several windows In the Pulmans.
Released after being held for approXi-
mately iifty-nve minutes, the train sped
on 10 Brigham City, reaching there about
$3.50 o'clock this morning. and there an
inventory of the victims and their losses
was taken, which showed that twenty
six passengers had been robbed Of S312.4 A
In money and several hundred dollars in
jewelry.
Escape in Buggy.
At FIRST it was thought that the rob-
bcrs had boarded the train al Ogden, but
| the discovery by the authorities OF We
ber county of buggy tracks few feet
from the scene Of the holdup showed the
| error OF this theory. The robbers had
driven to within few feet of the rail-
road track, alightcd. tied their horses to
a wire fence and. after placing the tor.
pedo on the track, awaited the arrival
of the traiD-
The tracks in the dust showed that the
vehicle was a single, rubber-tired buggy
| The robbers used it to escape III and the
officers are now trying to learn from
what livery stable the rig was obtained
This done an important step toward their
capture Will have been effected, the au-
thorities feel.
The bandits all woro rough clothes
Two weigh about 100 pounds apiece
while the third is a little heavier. One
wore Il brown slouch hat, while the other
two wore black hats of the same descrip-
ton trimmed with dirty green bands
The bandits looked like hobos to theiI
victims, so dirty and dusty were theii
clothes.
When the lone bandit was going
through one Of the day coaches, TEDDY
Miller OF the Gray News company ol
Salt Lake City who was robbed OF s4I
In money, found excellent opportupitS
to shoot the robber. He was on Tho
point of attempting TO do so. but on sec
ond thought changed his mind.
The Ogden authorities who won't TO tho
scene OF the holdup in autos arc Detec
tiyes James Fender, Bob Burke and BOZ
, | Chambers and Patrolrnan Peterson ant
Deputy Sherifs John Hutchins and Johi
Murphy, and Sheriff Wilson