Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-27
BRAKEMAN FRANKLI IND
CRAWLE0 TO TELEPH0


Ogden. June 27.--H r. Franklind,
the brakeman who was slugged by the
robbers during the exciting holdup
early this morning, told his story TO
The Deseret News this morning:
The first signal We had" he said.
was a tuzee ahead OF the engine
When the engineer pulled up the rob-
bers shot out the headlight with a
rife bullet, which report we at first
took TO be torpedo going on on the
track.
u was the frst to jump to the
ground ana was met by tall man car
rylng rife. He proved to be the
leader of the gang He wore black
clothes, a black SLOUGH hat and a
black handkerchief covering the lower
half of his face lie poked me in
the ribs with a rifle and ordered me
70 open %, the baggage car. did
80, but made all the noise l could to
warn the men inside. The robber
made me knock on the door and as
soon rs II was opened he poked his
rifle in Baggageman Lees face. Then
he hit me over the head with the
barrel of his gun. cutting a large cash
over the side OF my face. This was
to get me out OF the way. / fell 10
the ground and feigned unconscious
ness.
II heard the robber tell Lee that
he wanted TO see in the safe, and
money In the safe, that went on the
first section, and we couldn't board
that lie evidently took nothing from
the safe and then he made Lee get
out of the car. and lined him up
alongside the car with the engineer
fireman and the other trainmen,
with the exception Of Hathenbock,
the hagman. who managed TO slip OF
the rear end OF the train and ran
back half mile 20 flag any train that
might come along. Hathenhock did
not get back until the robbery was
all over with and the train had pulled
out.
SAWED-OFF SHOT GUNS.
There were two shorter men with
the big man, armed with sawed-off
shot guns. The big man. the leader,
left one of the shortN men to hold the
crew and took the other man through
the train.
Il crawled n few feet every time
had n chance and finally got under
the baggage car. on the other side of
the train | saw the mail messenger
standing in the open door OF the mail
car, and | signaled him TO close the
uoor. could not speak to him, but
Just motioned for him TO close the
door.
u then rushed down the bank and
crawling through a wire fence ran up
the road until ! came to a house. The
place was owned by a man named
stone and | had Stone telephone to
the police. stone told me that Deputy
sheriff John HutChens lived In a house
nearby and | ran to 5he place and
reused Hutchens, telling him what had
happened. Hutchens notified the
sherirf. and then Hutchens and | ran
back to the brush to within 200 feet
Of the train, but just as we got there
the train pulled out.
we looked about for the robbers,
but did not see them Hutchens only
had a revolver After the cars went
we found buggy track made by a
very small rubber tired rig We also
found the tracks of horse which had
evidently been tied to a post close by.
w, also found a gold watch belonging
to one OF the train crew"
POSSE IN AUTOMOBILES.
As soon as word was received OF the
holdup at the police department, Detec-
tive Fender and several officers left for
the scene in an automobile. They traced
the buggy track west for over four
miles to Statewide. northwest OF the
place where the hold-up occurred, but
the track was soon lost in the gravel
beds Later the track was picked up
again, and Detective Fender and an
other party continued TO follow the
trail.
chief Special Agent Jpstpn Jones OF
the oregon Short Line, accompanied
by a posse, left here on a special engine
al Z. 30 this morning for the west. Chief
Jones thinks that the men worked
west toward the Southern Pacific after
holding up the train. with the idea OF
catching an outbound train. Orders
we're sent out 20 detaln a freight train
which left ogden over the Southern
pacific at o'clock this morning at
Midlske. No. g. the Overland Limited.
due al ogden from the west at b;4b
am, was reported about two hours
late.
Three arrests are reported from Brig
ham CITY this afternoon, but tho men
arc simply held As suspects, with no
definite means of identifying them as
being connected with the train robbery.
they will be held pending investiga-
ton.
brakeman Franklind, severely beaten
over the head by one OF the robbers.
,ves taken 10 the ogden general hos
pital with deep cash In his head
PASSENGERS GO ON NORTH.
The passengers who were robbed of