The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-03-01
UNUSUAL EScApABE EXECUTED
IN VERY CITY LIMITS or
ST. LOUIS LAST
NIGHT. ..
MESSENGER
BOUND AND GAGGED
Forced to Witness Work OF Robbers
As He Lay Prone on Floor
Bandits Escaped With Large
Sum Of Money and Sew
eraI Packages.

erai Packages.
st. Lonis, Feb. 2S.--Two masked
/ and heavily armed robbers held up
an express car on the Iron Mountain
train within the city limits here to-
night, escaping with several packages
and the money boxes which they re-
moved from the safe after binding and
gasging the messenger, NJ. M. Nc
Roberts.
The train robbers obtained a larga
amount OF money. it is believed.
though no approximation of the sum
has heen obtained.
The bandits boarded the train at
Ivory STALLION in the southern part Of
the city and leaped off wnen the train
slowed down for Tower Grove sta
| Itlon.
All availaile patrolmen and detec-
tises have been hurried to the Tower
Grove district III hope OF surrounding
and capturing the pair of bandits.
livery and Tower Grove stations are
two stops made by Iron Mountain
trains before arriving Ut Union sta.
tionN
The train had Just left Ivory sta.
ton when the messenger, feeling an
thrush OF cold air In his car went TO
the rear Of II and found the door open.
C,osing 1t he turned and found him
self gazing into the barrels Of two
Irevolvers held by one Of the masked
intruders
Hands up, ana be sure you keep
them there" the robber commanded.
McRoberts elevated his arms and
in twinkling the second masked
man walked behind him.
| Bound and Gagged
| snow you can lower your HANDS.
and put them behind YOU" the first
bandit remarked.
| McRUberts obeyed and an instant
| later the second robber tied his hands
security at the wrists. Not content
with this they tied his feet at the
ankles and while he lay prone on the
floor they stuffed q handkerchief inio
his mouth.
1 Mnp p,1A In hha nDsittpp hn
| lying coud see their every movement.
The pair worked with amazing swift
ness, as IL familiar with tHeir task,
and in a few minutes had opened the
safe or strong box and selected there
from several packages and the money
box.
, Other packages were left scattered
: about the floor Wherever ,ley -eil as
they We're tosaed from the safe, and
when the train began to SOW down
! at Tower Grove station one OF tae
, pair gathered the parcels selected
while his companion kept AlcRoberts
: covered with his revolverc.
the bandits did not watt un,:i tie
train came to stop at the station,
5 probably being aware taat their
$ chances OF escape would be lessened
by leaving the train in the glare OF
! the electric lights. Instead they
!. leaped off several hundred yards west
D OF tie station in a maze Of tracks and
a disappeared.
1 The robbers had lead on the po-
q lice of more than half hour. The
4 hold up was discovered only w1ea
n the train arrived at Union Station az
t IS.So, forty minutes late.
McRoberts did not open his car. ami
t the conductor summoned the engi.
? neer. They forced the car door oaer.
; and found MeRoberts trussed up as
> the bandits had left him. i was
$ stated at the offices OF the Pacific
! Express Company that no one knew
y whether the robbers got anything or
! value. This Is at variance, however.
with information given Chief of Po-
lice Gillespy, who said he had been
told the robbers got package OF
money from the safe.