Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1911-07-27

information that an automobile with
four men is being held in the north
ern part of the state by officers, the
men answering the description of the
Buffalo train robbers. The story of
the boys regarding the automobile
being headed south is not believed
to identify the auto referred as that
car was the property of farmer liv-
ing near Oriska, whose son had been
out late with party Of young peo-
pie at Buffalo and was returning
home.
Description of Bandits
Supt. Burt has issued the following
description of the bandits:
Keep a sharp lookout and notify
all officers that Number 2 was held
up and passengers robbed between
high line and Buffalo last night. All
three wore blue overhalls with bibs,
dark colored sack coats, two of them
had on cheap new dark caps, vizars
black on outside and green on in
side; two men were tall and slender,
about feet and s inches, weight 160
to 165 pounds, other short and chun-
ky. All between 25 and 35 years
of age. They carried two large navy
and one automatic revolvers. If you
learn of any movements that are at
all suspicious, advise at once.
A. NJ. Burt, Supt.
Dilworth, Mimi.
1t is also reported at railroad head
quarters here that strangers nego-
tiated for the use of an automobile in
Valley City, for several days, and
it is possible that this may be the
car referred to which is held in the
northern part of the state and which
was evidently trying to reach Canada.
Reward Increased
Third Vice President George T.
Slade of the N. P. road has issued
second bulletin in which he raises the
reward from $1,000 to $4,000 each
for the arrest and conviction of the
three men who held up and robbed
the North Coast Limited, N. P. train
near Buffalo, N. D., Wednesday
night.
Some 80 or 40 men are being held
as suspects in various parts of the
state, among them three are held
at Tolna on the G. N. line in Nelson
county.
Fargo officials think the men may
be in Fargo or Moorhead but so far
nothing definite has been learned re-
garding their whereabouts.
Engineer Olson is getting along
all right at his home in Fargo.
jamestown Boys Story
A Fargo paper gives an account of
the robbery, from two boys, Andrew
Allen and Earl Deery, of jamestown.
The boys were at Valley City wait
ing for the North Coast Limited. and
got aboard of the rear end of the en-
CINE. The boys claimed they were
going to Canada, and decided it was
cheaper to ride outside than inside
of the train. From the engine they
got onto the blind end of the bag
gage car and were just getting COM
fortably seated when they saw some
men crawling over the rear end of
the engine towards the boys and
looking around as If hunting for
Young Allen continuing
the account, said:
We saw that he had a gun In his
hand and we heard shots and
want to tell you that we we're almost
scared to death, and when the train
stopped we both got of and I ran
into two masked men, each
with a gun in his hand. I couldn't
see what they had over their faces,
but it looked like something dark.
One Of the men asked me what
was doing there and told him
guessed there was a holdup Of the
train and was getting away from
the train, and he told me to get
back d. quick, but went on and
came to a farm house where rout-
ID man out and told him what had
and he appeared to be very
much frightened, for he went into
he house, shut the door and l heard
1im turning the key. We walked
IN and went down to Buffalo where
We reused up the place. I think 1t
vas about 1885 when the holdup