Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-13
TOSSES CHILDREN
OUT CAR WINDOW
Disguised as Woman, Ruffian
Commits Outrage on East
Indian Railway

CALCUTTA, Oct. 12.-Another train
outrage is reported on the East Indian
railway. The victims were an elderly
Bengal woman and her three chill
dren, and the accused is believed to be
q clerk in the employ Of the railway.
The woman entered an afternoon train
at JamaRpore, and occupied female
compartment in the intermediate class
with the three children, while her eld-
est son was in another compartment.
When the train was about to start an
other passenger entered the female
compartment. The new arrival had a
veil covering the face, and the Bengal
woman did not suspect her fellow pas
senger to be a man. When the train
arrived at Taljhari station, between
Bhagalpore and Sahebgunge, about 10
.. M, the children had fallen asleep,
and their mother also prepared to rest.
Between Taljhari and Tinpahar the
only occupant of the compartment
awake was the yelled passenger. Sud-
denly the Bengal woman was aroused
as her fellow passengers man in dis
guise--attempted TO gag her in order
to remove her ornaments. scuftle
followed, in which the ruffian over
powered his victim and gagged her, but
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 a
severe wound on the woman's throat
with a large clasp knife, rendering her
unconscious.
BY the time the train entered Tin
pahar station the robber had stripped
her of her ornaments, and 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 superintendent of the East In
dian railway, who was travelling in the
next compartment, noticed him. AS 1t
happened, the railway official was trav-
cling with the express object of find
ing some cleW to the mysterious thefts
which have taken place on running
trains in the Sahebgunge district. 1t
the course of the past month. 1t
struck him as suspicious that man
should have been travelling In the
compartment reserved for females and
he challenged the robber, who had dis
carded the veil for ordinary male at
tire. The man at once took to his
heels. An alarm was instantly raised
and two railway porters were sent in
pursuit of the runaway.
The superintendent looked into the
female compartment ana on ulscoV-
ering the state of affairs he joined in
the chase. After running a mile the
robber suddenly turned around, on his
pursuers and as one of the porters
was close to him he drew knife and
stabbed him. The others, however,
came up and the man was overpow-
cred and taken to Tinpahar. There the
eldest boy of the Bengal woman in
formed the superintendent that the
children were missing. The engine of
the train was Immediately detached
and run up the line in search for the
children. One had sustained severe
injuries by the fall, but the other two
appeared to have escaped with only
shaking. 1t is believed the capture
of this man will throw considerable
light on the recent thefts in running
trains in the Sahebgunge district. Only
q few days before at Sabour, an up
country woman was forced by robber
to make over all her jewelry to him
and no clew was found to the thief.
In second case the wife of a Ben
gall physician was the victim.