The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-09-11
BANDIT IS KILLED
ENGINEER FEILS PLUHDDEERRER AZ.
TER he has SEARCHED TRAIN
LADIES UNMOLESTED
While the Robher Examined His
Plumber in the Cab the Engineer
Catches Him or His Guard,
knocking Him Down Unconscious.
Left for Arkansas the Next Day.

Left for Arkansas the Next LAY.
The lone bandit who Wednesday
night held up and robbed the New
York Limited train on the LOUISVILLE
and Nashville Railroad near Mechaud
twelve miles cas-: Of New Orleans and
vas later felled by blow over the
head by Engineer Baer, was brought
to New Orleans on special train
from Bay st. Louis, Miss, Thursday
morning and placed In charity hos
pital.
The man gave his name as Howard
E. Edwards and said his family lived
at Jupiter, Fla. He gave the police
information which is expected TO lead
to the early capture OF three other
members OF gang which is believed
to have been responsible for series
iof sensational train rooDeries in that
section.
Edwards is in g precarious condi-
ton and attendants at the hospital
Thursday morning stated It was
doubtful II he would recover from
the injuries inflicted by the engineer.
Following so close on the attempt
ed robbery of the Cincinnati South
ernbound passenger. tram on the
same road at almost the same spot
the night previous, wnen q freight
train was held up; by mistake the
work of Edwards Is considered most
daring.
Edwards crawled aboard the en-
gine and covered Engineer Baer and
the -fnemen with two revoIvers. He
carried a small yalise containing dy-
Mantle and nitro-glycerine. The train
was, stopped and with the engineer
and hremen preceding him, Edwards
rifed the mail car Of registered mail
and then relieved the male passen-
gers in five Pullmans and club car
of their cash. he decline to take
jewelry and did not offer to molest
women. Hhe then marched the en-
gineer and fireman back to the en-
gine and ordered them to proceed.
about twenty-five miles, Engineer
Baer caught Edwards of his guard
and struck him terrific blow on the
head with a brass torch, fractur1og
the base of the skull. Edwards fired
one shot as he fell, which went wild
Engineer Baer proceeded to rain
blows with the torch until he had
the bandit unconscious.
When the train reached Bay st.
Louis the robber was taken of and
placed in the charge of the railroad
surgeon until police officers and de-
tectives from New Orleans arrived
there in a special. Although Ed
wards was unconscious at intervals
throughout the hight he gave the po-
lice valuable information concerning
his "pals" and Inspector Reynolds, Of
| the New Orleans force, Thursday said
he Hoped to make some arrests short.
ly.
Edwards stated that he had a
brother in Oklahoma City and anoth-
er brother in Meridian, Miss. Ed
wards is a small man, only five feet,
six inches in height and weighs but
130 pounds. He appears to be about
80 years Of age.
Superintendent Marshall, Of the
New, Orleans division OF the Louis
Vile. and Nashville, vho was a pas
senger aboard the train, stated tnat
but one man On the train had a reyol-
yer, but could not use it because the
robber kept the trainmen in front Of
him when he passed through.
A dispatch from West Jupiter, Fla.
says that Howard E. Edwards, who
held up a Louisville and Nashville
train out Of New Orleans Wednesday
night, left there August 25. He has
a wife and three children In thai
place. A letter was received from
him September 1, dated New Orleans,
saying that he would depart for Ar
kansas the following day.