The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-23
TRAIN HELD UP AND
ROBBED At Winnings
Lone Bandit Takes Money At
Point Of Gun From
The Passengers.

train of the n. C. and St. L. last
Friday night between Winnings and
Bolton while the train was travel
ING Southwark.
Just after the train passed Vim
ings the Pullman car conductor start
cd through the train to make out his
report and was confronted at the
door of the rear car by a masked
man who levelled a big black pistol
in his face and told him to hold
ND your hands" The conductor at
first thought that the man was jok-
inc but when the command was re-
heated in a stern voice the conduc-
tor knew that he was up against
a real highwayman.
The man then ordered the passen-
gers in the car to the front and told
them one at a time to deliver their
purses. Various sums were taken, to-
falling about three hundred dollars.
When the robber had secured what
he believed to be all the money the
passengers had he went to the back
end of the train, pulled the emer-
gency brake cord and when the train
slowed up swung off the rear plat
form and disappeared in the dark
AS soon as the robber made for
the rear platform to make his es-
cape the conductor rushed through
the train and found one of Fulton
County's policeman, the only man on
the train who was armed. Togeth-
er they rushed to the rear of the
train and fired at the robber as he
dropped from the platform but were
unable to hit their mark in the
darkness.
Word was Immediately telegraph
ed to Atlanta giving description
of the man and the Fulton County
police and Sheriff Swanson and dep
uty Sheriff Hicks, of Cobb County,
were soon on the scene. No trace of
the robber could be found on the
Cobb County side of the river but
the Fulton County officers located a
man answering the description Of
the bandit He gave a different name
from those on letters addressed 20
him, which were found in his peck
cts, and he is being held in the
Fulton County pail as suspect un-
der the name of James Nolan.
Tuesday night, however, the At
lanta police were put on notice by
Fred Ball, a chauffeur, that a man
whom he had known about three
years had confessed to him that he
held up the train and had committed
other robberies, including the theft
of $1,000 from a Cedartown farmer
about three weeks ago, and the theft
of some diamonds from a manufac-
turer Of jewelry in Atlanta.
The police got busy Immediately
and acting under Balls direction
traced Freeman to the Marietta car.
They rushed ahead of the car in
Balls automobile and boarded the
car at the next stop and placed Free
man under arrest. They brought him
TO Marietta where it was said that
ne had two accomplices. When the
car reached Marietta the two pals
must have been on the lookout for
they could not be found. They had
registered at the Kennesaw Hotel as
n, d. Freeman and brother, Macon,
"a, and left two suit cases. They
evidently knew that the officers were
on their trail and skipped for they
never returned to occupy their room
or to call for the grips. The officers
from Atlanta came up Wednesday
afternoon and took charge of the
TWO suit cases as evidence and car
fled them back to Atlanta.
Posters pasted on the suits cases
0s IS the custom of some hotels led
10 the belief that the men had been
stopping at the Ansley hotel in At
Idhta and the shirts in the suit cases
oore the name H. ID Freeman, but n
address.
The other two suspects were later
arrested in Atlanta and are being
Aeld under the names of R. S. Free
man, E. H. Freeman and T. H. Wha-
'eF. The oldest is only twenty years
ol age and the youngest is just II
mere may be some argument as
" whether the men should be tried
!" + ulton or Cobb County as the rob
very took place while the train was
passing from one county to the other
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