Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-18
TRAIN ROBBER THROWS
CHILDREN FROM CAR
OverpoWers Woman, Takes
Her Jewels and Is Caught
Making Off.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J
21-Su.6t.50
Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.

Foreign Correspondence OF Inc Star
CALCUTTA, September 1, 1910.
Another train outrage is reported on the
East Indian railway.
The victims were an elderly Bengal
lady and her three children. The ac-
cused is believed to be a clerk In the
employ of the railway.
The lady entered an afternoon train at
Jamalpore, and occupied a female COM
partment in the intermediate class with
the three children, while her eldest son
was in another compartment. When the
train was about to start another pas
senger entered the female compartment.
The new arrival had veil covering the
face. Tho Bengal lady did not sus-
pect her fellow passenger to be a man.
When the train arrived at Talhari sta
ton. between Bnagalpore and Sahebgunge
about 10 pm, the children had fallen
asleep. Their mother also prepared to
rest.
Robber Arouses Her.
Between Taljhari and Tinpahar the
only occupant Of the compartment awake
was the yelled passenger. Suddenly the
Bengali lady was aroused, as her fellow
passenger-a man in disguise-attempted
to gag her in order to remove her orna-
ments.
A scuffle follow in which the ruffian
overpowered his victim and gagged her.
The children evidently chung to their
mother, and made the work OF the thief
difficult.
He is reported to have deliberately
thrown the children one after the other
out of the window of the running train.
He then inflicted severe wound on the
lady's throat with a large clasp knife,
unconscious.
BY the time the train entered Tinpahar
station the robber had stripped her sof
her ornaments. Before the train had
come to a standstill he got down on the
offside and was making off with his
booty when the district traffic superin-
tendent of the East Indian railway, who
was travelling in the next compartment,
noticed him.
AS it happened, the railway officer was
travelling with the express object of find
ing some clue to the mysterious thefts
which have taken place on running trains
in the Sahebgunge district in the course
of the past month. 1t struck him as sus-
picious that a man should have been
travelling in the compartment reserved
for females.
He challenged the robber, who had dis
carded the veil for ordinary male attire.
The man at once took to his heels. An
alarm was instantly raised and two rail-
way porters were sent in pursuit of the
runaway.
Robber Is Captured.
The superintendent looked into the fe-
male compartment. On discovering the
state of affairs he joined in the chase.
After running a mile the robber sud
denly turned round on his pursuers. AS
one of the porters was close to him he
drew his knife and stabbed him. The
others, however, came up and the man
was overpowered and taken to Tinpahar.
There the eldest boy of the Bengal
lady informed the superintendent that the
children were missing. The engine OF
the train was Immediately detached and
run up the nne in search Of the children.
One had sustained severe injuries by the
fall, but the other two appeared to have
escaped with only a shaking.
1t is believed the capture Of this man
will throw considerable light on the re-
cent thefts in running trains in the Sab
ebgunge district. Only a few days be-
fore, at SabOur, an up-country woman
was forced by a robber to make over all
her jewelry to him, and no clue was
found to the thief. In a second case the
wife of a Bengal physician was the
victim.