The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-27
TRAIN HELD Up.
Stopped by Bandits in the Sub
urbs Of Ogden.
Express Car Looted and Every
Passenger Robbed.
THpEE MA0KEn MIN
THREE MASKED MEN.
One Stands Guard While the
Others Are Working.
They Go Through Every Car
With Care and DeliberatiOn.

Ogden, Utah, June 27.-The second
section of Oregon Short Line train
No. 1, northbound, which left Ogden
at 1870 o'clock this morning, was held
up at Second street on the northern
part of this city by three masked men.
All of the passengers in the train were
relieved of their valuab les and the
express messenger was compelled to
deliver over the contents of his safe.
The exact amount the robbers obtain
ed has not been ascertained.
The robbers drove to Second street
from Ogden in a buggy with which
they made their escape. They stopped
the train by placing railroad torpedoes
on the track. When the engineer
brought the train to stop, the head
the cause of the delay and was struck
over the head with a revolver by one
of the robbers. He was then taken at
the point of gun to the express car
and compelled to call to the messen-
ger to open the door, AS soon as the
door was opened one of the bandits
crawled in and commanded the mes
senger to open the safe. After rifling
the safe the robbers turned their at
tention to the coaches. AS they start
ed for the coaches, Rear Brakeman N.
B. Franklin was met as he was on his
way 1OTWdTO- Inc DdnQ1CS command
ed him to halt but he continued and
two shots were fired at him.
The train robbers went through
each coach with a elaboration and
calmness that showed they were not
novices at the game.
Officers Are Notified
After one of the men had struck
Brakeman Franklin to the ground ne
rolled into a ditch, where he feigned
unconsciousness. After seeing that he
was not watched, he jumped up and
ran three blocks to the home of Deputy
Sheriff John Hutchens whom no
aroused and Informed of the robbery.
The deputy hurried to the scene, arriv-
ing just as the train pulled out for the
north.
Conductor H. L. Williams was one of
the first to leave the train. He was
covered by one of the robbers and or
dered back into the coach. While one
of the desperadoes stood guard over
Engineer KirkwOOd, the others went
through the coaches, rousing the pas
sengers from their slumbers and re-
lieving them of their valuables. The
day coach, sleeper and two chair cars
were entered by the two robbers with
revolvers drawn, and each passenger
was ordered to hand over his valuables.
One woman, Mrs. ]. H. Ball, was re-
lieved of a pair of diamond earrings,
which were brutally torn from her ears
| by the robbers
Brakeman Franklin and a foreigner
| whose name was not learned, were the
only one assaulted. The foreigner did
not understand what was going on and
was brutally beaten with the butt of Il
revolver. After the train had been
robbed the desperadoes assembled, AMI
| firing a fusillade of shots in the air tt
terrorize the passengers, got into their
buggy and drove furiously away.
| Sheriff Wilson gave pursuit with 3
| posse, following the trail left by the
| buggy.
There were nearly 100 passengers on
the train. every one of whom lost
| something