Evening star., 1912-09-05
FEELS TRAIN BANDIT DR.. DUNLAP QUITS
Enuneer Probably Fatally In Member of Pure Food Board
lures Lone Robber in South Tenders Resignation.
HOLD-UP Is SENSATIONAL WAS WILEY'S OPPONENT
Caught Of Guard After Attained National Prominence by
Obtaining Big Loot Charges of Iregularity.
PEACHES ON OTHERS IN GANG TO TAKE BETTER PAYING
Enters Employment Chicago
Early Capture Chemical CompanyTook
MoreW Who HaveR Records Wiley
Engineer Probably Fatally In
lures Lone Robber in South.
HOLD-UP IS SENSATIONAL
Desperate Caught Of Guard After
Obtaining Big Loot.
PEACHES ON OTHERS IN GANG
Confession of Man Probably Will
Lead to Early Capture of Three
More Who Have Records.

NEW ORLEANS, September 5.-Suffer-
ing from fractured skull the bandit
who. single handed. robbed the New York
limited train on the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad twelve miles east OF New
Orleans last night. later to be felled by
the locomotive driver, was brought to
New Orleans this morning and placed in
the Charity Hospital
The bandit said tha. his name was
Howard E. Edwards. and that his family
lived in Jupiter. Fla. He gave the police
information that is expected to lead to
the early capture of three other MEM
bers of a gang which is believed to have
been responsible for series of sensation
al train robberies in this section.
Edwards is in a precarious condition
and attendants at the hospital declared
from his injuries.
Caught Off His Guard.
After Edwards had completed round
of the coaches he went forward to the
engine. Caught off his guard for an IN
stant he was hit by Engineer Baer. who
welded a heavy oil can. The bandit
dropped, unconscious.
Following SO cloSely upon tHe dtteihpecu
robbery of the Cincinnati southbound
passenger train on the same road at al
most the same spot the night previous,
the work of Edwards Is considered most
daring.
cred Engineer Baer and the fireman with
two revolvers. He carried small valise
in which he had dynamite and nitro
clycerin.
Gets Hundreds of Dollars.
The train was stopped and with the
engineer and fireman preceding him at
the point of a revolver Edwards nfied
the car of all registered mail and then
relieved the male passengers in five Pulls
mans ana a club car Of their valuables.
he did not offer to modest women. He
got several hundred dollars. according to
the police, and then marched the .engi-
neer and fireman back to the engine and
ordered them to proceed.
After riding on the engine for about
twenty-five mics Engineer Baer caught
Edwards and struck him terrific blow
on the head with q brass oil can, frac-
turing the base of the skull. Edwards
| fired one shot as he fell. 1t went wild.
Tells of His Partners.
When the train reached Bay st. Louis.
Miss. the robber was taken or ana
placed in the charge of the railroad sur
geons until police officers and detectives
| from New Orleans arrived there In a
special train. Although Edwards was
| unconscious throughout the night, he
gave the police valuable Information con-
cerning his alleged partners.
Supt. Marshall of the New Orleans di-
| vision of the Louisville and Nashville
railroad, who was passenger aboard
the train, stated that only one man on
the train had a revolver, but he could
not use it because the robber kept the
trainmen in front Of him when he passed
through the cars. Many Of the passen-
gers knew of the presence Of robber
and they hid their valuables.
Lone Bandit Gets But SEQ.
OSAGE CITY, Kan, September 5.-A
masked man boarded Missouri Pacific
passenger train here early today and
robbed the conductor, the ticket auditor
and six men in the smoker. After OBJ
| tanning only $50 the robber jumped from
the train when 1t stopped at water tank
and escaped into a cornfield.
The conductor said the bandit was a
rank amateur"