Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-12-26
The other Men Skunk Away.

whats going on here?' He pulled
another long gun from his pocket
turned around and said: Get back,
Keep out Of this. 1t amt anything
to do with you
"He kept wlggling the gun at me.
so / put up my hands too, and backed
off. The car was half full Of folks,
about a dozen OF them women They
were all keeping mighty quiet, watch
ing like a movign picture show. Every
once in a while n man would kind
of stretch, get up and slowly walk
into the next car behind, take a long
breath and look back through the
dor
when I backed off 7 went to my
locker behind the partition and took
out my gun, a .3S. I asked some OF
the men that had come out II they
would get their guns and help me.
because I was scared to do it alone.
But they didn't want to. So I started
back through the car by myself.
Followed Him Down the Train.
by that time the bandit had got
the conductor to go through the big
gage car on to the express car. When
! looked through the express car door
some stuff from the small safe was ly-
ing on the floor. The conductor and
expressman were kneeling in front of
the big safe, and he was telling them
he'd give them one more chance to
open It, and then he'd shoot He was
standing kind OF sideways. with his
backtoward me. So I pulled the trIg-
ger and shot him."
The bandit fel on his back and
emptied one Of his revolvers. but all
the shots went wild. II was then that
w. S Gordon, n Burns detective on
the train, came In and fired a number
Of shots at the bandit on the floor.
Haney, the express messenger, said
he was arranging some packages und
clearin up the car when the door
opened to let the conductor and the
bandit enter.
Didn't Know the Combination.
"I didn't have time to reach for
my gum" said Haney. "and the bandit
stuck me up right away. He told me
to open up the first safe, which was
the small one, without many vaiu-
ables. The big safe next to 1t Is what
we call the through safe carrying
through stuff from Oklahoma city to
Kansas City. Only the agents at each
end of the line know the combina-
tion. The fellow didn't care for the
stuff in the small safe and left 1t on
the floor.
Then he made us kneel before the
big safe and told us to open t. Mel
ther of us could do anything with 1t.
and we knew It. but I felt that maybe
help would come IL we pretended we
could open It. We both fumbled with
the dial. Finally the bandit got i'm
patient and told us he'd give US one
more chance, thet he would shoot us
II It wasn't open in another minute
Just then thought I heard n sound
at the other end OF the car, but was
not sure Suddenly I heard a shot
and the fellow pitched over on his
back firing his revolver. His shots
went up to the ceiling or into the side
of the car
The conductor, T. p. Fair. left the
train at Sapulpa. where he was re-
lieved by another man. The train
stopped after the shooting and backed
up to Chandler, where the body OF
the bandit was left.
w. g. Gordon, a Burns detective,
woh fired five shots into the body Of
the dead negro train robber, said last
night that a report just received
from the coroner at Chandler states
that three steel bullets Of 45 callbre
size were found in the body and a
fourth bullet of the same size passed
entirely through him and lodged in