The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-31
HARVEST H'.NDS
We. { ROBBED
Held up Twice in -Four Days
and Valuables Taken
NO Trace.

Valley City. y. D, Aug. 3l.-Twicc
held up and robbed by desperate high
Waylncn who Wore MASKS, and carried
ugIN looking reNolNerS within four
Lays is the experience of j. S. Lang
an" j. KING, tWo Dun men who oamr
to Valley CitJ to obtain employment
in the surrounding harvest fields. Both
robberieS We're almost within the city.
limits.
The first holdup happened when the
young men We're coming into the city
on Il freight train. the usual mode OF
transportation OF harvest hands. The
young men We're robbed in Il carload
II pipe hy a white man and a negro,
10th masked and armed. and then
were compelled to make their way to
Nc top Of the Refrigerator car and
4orcel to climb into the ice box. where
thcy Were securely fastened while the
desucradoeS escaped. Lang and king
did not get out until the train reach
ed jamestown.
obtain money for God and started
back to Valley City. arriving in the 500
yards where they tool lodging, With
two others. in a box car. About >
O'Clock Friday morning the four We're
awakened by two men ,husting a
lighted bunch of oil waste into the car
and ordering them to stick EN- and
i!iAC tP' u oiNtl wis c1lloICGu ny
two revolvers. The four lined up and
We're robbed. The hishwaymen then
got out OF the car and locked the dour.
Held in DO Car.
ADout 9 o'clock in the morning the
four men attracted the attention of
pussers-by. by vigorously kicking the
door. When released they learned
that their who numbered
four, had gone through a similar ex-
p%erience in The adjoining car at the
hands OF the same two h~ighwaymen.
and that three others had suffered q
like fate in another car, making eleven
in all. held up. robbed and locked in
by the same two masked men.
In the first hoidup Lang and King
were robbed OF SIS. In the second
they lost the 81 they had left after
getting away from jamestown. The
robbers got 81 out of the car in which
Lang and King We're sleeping. and SO
out of he car containing the other
quartet, While the three men had
nothing to give up
On account of the darkness, neither
Lang nor King could get a good look
at their assaliants and we're unable
police.
This is the last time 1 shall ever
sleep in a box car" said King.
Ne. 100" chimed in Lang. as he
felt of his empty purse.
The negro and white nan were de-
scribed as 'old-timers'' who seemed
to know the business. The negro
pressed the revolver against the head
OF Lang and the white man prodded
King in the ribs with the muzzle of
his weapon while they robbed their
victims. After the robbery, and when
the train was almost in the lights of
the city, the negro is reported to have
said:
These fellows Seem to be a little
nervous. We'd better put them
away"
The young mel were then conduct
ed to the ice box on the refrigerator
car.
Other HoIdups.
Reports of holdups all along the
line are coming in rapidly and the po-
lice and sneriffs and railroad detec-
tiVeS are ~redoubling their vigilance.
That the hiShWaymen are desperate is
taken for granted in view of the fact
that a railroad detective was on the
train when the negro and white man
robbed Lang and King.
n man With Il revolver, caught in
the 500 yards by the sheriff. was SEN
fenced to thirty days by Justice Of the
Peace Moe, and two others are serving
four days for vagrancy. Before these
men are released they will be investi-
gated to determine if they have had
any connection with the holdups re-
ported, or are wanted elsew here.