Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-03-25
EXPRESSNAN doubts
IF robbers COT $1OO
EARIN REPORTS MISLEADING
-llOLDUP MEN HEADED THIS
WAY.

/ By Associated Press
CoffeyWlle. Knna, March "a
Federal officers tonight joined IN the
search for the four masked men who
early today blew up, with nltroglycc-
| nine. and robbed the express car
safe OF north bound passenger train,
+ No. lO4 Of the st. Louis and Iron
/ Mountain railroad on a lonely prairie
/ twelve miles south Of here. II was dis
covered that several packages Of reg
lstered mail had been stolen. The
Officers were hurried here from Kan
sas City
( Tho value Of the stolen mail ia he.
lieyed to be small. Passengers on the
train were not molested. No clue to
the identity OF the offenders has been
found.
Federal officers, five railroad do
tectlves and Sheriff william Giles
pie OF this city are working on the
case. They have been running down
rumors all day and are out again to-
night
II is now believed that the rob-
bers headed for Oklahoma in a buggy
after they had committed the rob-
berry. First reports had II that the
men left the train In an automobile.
TO night 1t was learned the automo-
bile passengers seen a short distance
from the train were Coffeyyilie per-
sons
Buggy tracks were found leading
south from the train 10 the Vcrdlgris
river. and It Is thought they were
made by a vehicle belonging TO the
robbers
Early reports were that about $40.
900 We're taken from the safe. IT,
w, Walker superintendent of the Pa
j cific Express company. with head
quarters at Kansas CITY, said the total
!, monetary loss. including the paper
money destroyed by the explosion
would not he more than $500. He
doubts II the robbers got 800
THE safe carried not more than
$1,000" said MIR Walkor.
The train left Little Rock ycstcr-
day morning for Kansas City just
after Il left Lenapah over the okla
homa line the engineer heard a sharp
cry: Hands up"
Turning he saw masked man
, sitting on the tender pointing a re-
volver at him I'm going to ride n
little ways with you.' said the man
Drive on"
The engineer drove on about -four
miles ont OF Lenapah when the mar
made the engineer stop the train al
a place whore the tracks cross n
small culbert near a clump Of trees
Five more masked men came ouI
OF the clump and taking positions on
, ing In the alr and alongside tho train
Then while two men stood guard tc
prevent any passengers from LEAVING
the other four marched the engineer
and fireman to a coach used az a jim
Crow car and locked them IN.
, one man then took position tC
, guard the rear OF the train and In,
three went into the express car, fore
? ed the two cXpressmen TO Jump on
r and stand whore one Of the side
, guards could keep them covered with
rcvolvers.
After nearly an hours work tn,
r men succeeded In inserting q charg,
Of nitro-glycerln into the through
safe In the express car. They blew
, the safe 10 pieces and scattered th'
+ entire contents over the floor OF tn,
car
The robbers made no haste The'
had chosen strategic position II
/, which to stop the train, They wcr,
at least three miles from any human
hahitatlon,
After the mon had spcn
nearly an hour over the packages
the lights of two automobiles op.
preached from the direction OF IN,
' oklahoma line As they came with
IN about two hundred yards VI th
train on the country road the auto
j stopped. Tho lights were cxtinguish
% ed and the automobiles disappeared
The passengers who had remained
j huddled I'm the coaches. afraid 10 lool
e out Of the windows, relaxed and tn
= disorgani1cd train crew got 10 thel
% places. when the train reached thl
e city the sheriff and two deputlc
started on horseback southward II
. pursuit OF the bandits.
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