The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-24
TRAIN HELD UP|N
MOST APPROVED
WESTERN STYLE
Masked and Armed Ban.
dts Strike Terror to
Passengers.
INVADE COACH
AT WEEHAW KEN
AS Train Stands in Station They
Enter Car With Drawn Revolv-
ers and Collect" About
$soo-Four Make Escape,
but One Is Felled by
Policeman.
Especial to The rimes-pispatch.1

Especial to The Time s-Dispatch.l
Weehawken, N. j. July 23.-Ftva
masked and armed men tonight held
UP train No. los, on the Ontario and
Western, in this city. -Four robbera +
invaded tho train and forced a number
of passengers to give up their value
ables at the pistol point One man was
left outside to warn the robbers on
the inside. The four left the train and
made their escape. but the man outsida
was arrested.
The four robbers entered one OF the
coaches from both ends as the train
stood in the station Two stood on the
forward end of the car and covered
the passengers with revolvers, while
the others advanced from the rear and
proceeded to go through their pockets.
The robbers had gone about half
through the car when a brakeman saw
what was happening. The four rob-
bers sprang from the steps and dashed
off In the darkness.
In Approved Style.
Two men boarded the rear end of
the last car. AT the same time two
men stepped on the front platform OF
| the same. The two who came in tha
rear whipped out revolvers in a way
to command the admiration Of any Of
the bad men of the West, and called
Hands up. eyerybodyt With the
four revolvers, they came down the
aisle of the car, putting the four guns
to the heads of the frightened pessen-
gers and saying; Come on, give up
your money Shell out"
| The two who had como in at the
front door of the car acted as collec-
tors. When a man did not give up
they Went through his clothes. The
great majority of those in the car un-
derstood little or no English (the rob-
bers having gotten in an immigrant
| carr, but the sight OF the guns was an
evidence of the intention of the men,
and the money came from its hiding
places. The two in front had collected
from about one-half the passengers OF
the car when a trainman named Lundy
boarded the platform OF the next to the
last car. He gave one look inside
the rear car and saw the four guns
in the hands OF the two men and the
other two collecting. With a veil
Lundy was off the car, shouting "Po-
lice! and Help" at the top or his
voice. -
1t was not until then that the man
who was captured made his appearance
In the game. He had been standing as
lookout by the side of the train. 4
When Lundy made a leap from the
front platform he jumped upon the
rear one and put his head In the car
and shouted: Beat IL! Beat 1t! It's
off, AZ
Needed No Second Warning.
The four inside needed no seconG
warning. They ran through the car
and Jumped off into the crowd along
the platform The man who had given
the warning was himself the last ia
get away. He was Logging 1t after
the other four when he ran into the
hands of Policeman Nulty. In word
or two, Lundy, the trainman. had con-
Veyed the information of the hold-up
to Nulty- The policeman was rushing
for the train when he met the man
who acted as lookout. Nu1ty took no
pains with the fellow, believing him to
be armed from what he had heard, and
brought his stick down over the hands
and head.
The fellow dropped like log. Some-
oody sat on him and then four or Ave
others did the same. although 1t was
aosolutely unnecessary, as the robber
was taking the count for q half-hour
Nulty, leaving the man who was
down. Went after the others. He had
only fleeting glimpse Of their backs.
and the waiting room of the station
was crowded with more than 1000
persons
Persons rushing through railroad
or interest, and no one paid any at
tentlon to the men until too late. The
TOUR We're lost In the crowd. There
was boat arriving and one about
70 leave. Other police Joined in the
hunt, and railroad detectives took II
up. but saw no one.
Lundy the trainman said he had
got only one look at the hold-up msn
a ana Just saw the guns and fled, rais-
Ing the alarm. The whole hold-u did
not occupy five minutes. 4
me train was held few minutes
and an effort was made to find out
Just how much money the bandits
naa obtained. The police also en-
deavored to get some of the frnmi-
grants who had given up their money
TO remain over and help search Tor
the men. In this they were unsuc-
cessful
8.@ Got About $500.
AS near as could be learned the Y
amount Of cash taken from those in
hold-up not been discovered by Lundy
II Is believed the men had planned 10
so through the entire train. doing the
car first and the Pullmans
next, getting off north of Weehawken. n
The discovery OF the hold-up before
the train had started baked this
plan.
After the robbery tho police Of New
York We're notified and asked to watch
the ferries and other places, and also
look over the prisoners there. Thu "
police and the railroad
detectives hope through establishing
the identity of the fellow under arrest
to get line on other members OF the eF
gang.
4 Tho man who was caught. whom ha
recovered consciousness, refused toy
give any name or tell any hing et hirps