New Britain herald., 1914-07-10
TRACK WALKER SEIZED
 BY TRAIN BANDITS 'fay Flyer" Held Up at kason,
 Missouri, Last Night. CREW COVERED WITH RfVOLvERS
Safe in American Express Car Blown
 Open By Robbers, Who Made Good
 Their Escape With Booty of Jewelry-Passengers Not Molested.

St. Louis. Mo-, July 10.-The two masked bandits who held up the vest bound Katy Flyer" on the Missouri. Kansas and Texas Railroad near Watson, Mo-, sixty miles northwest of St. Louis, last night, captured a track walker who surprised them as they were robbing the train and took him away with them.
 This was learned from members of the train crew this morning. The story of the robbery was told by A. l.. Mudd, conductor of the train, and by John Snadley, engineer.
 The train, which left St. Louis at s:s2 last night for Texas, stopped at Watson, Mo-, on the north bank of the Missouri River at 10:15. There the bandits, of whom there were only two, are supposed to have boarded the train.
 Engineer Heard Noise.
 After the train had gone short distance the engineer heard 8 noise behind him and, turning, saw man with two revolvers levelled at him. We were told to stop the train" said the engineer, "and did so. Then he told the firemen to run back and uncoup1e the train between the last express car and the first passenger car"
 The fireman uncoupled the train and the bandits forced the engineer to run the engine and express cars to a point near Klondyke on the river bank
 Blew Doors From Safe.
 They entered the American Express car and forced the messenger, J. J. Nicholson, to stand with his face to the wall while they blew both doors from the safe.
 While this was going on a track walker, said to be William Christo- pher. appeared. The robbers made him prisoner.
 When the train first stopped at the command of the bandits. Conductor Mudd and William Glass, train auditor, got off to learn the trouble. We were greeted with a fusillade of shots," said Mudd. we were told to stay in the coaches. We stayed in."
 Passengers Not Molested. The bandits made no effort to mo- lest the passengers. but warned them to keep their heads inside the win- dows. So far as Is known nothing was taken except the contents of the express safe. What this amounted to is not yet known. Conductor Mudd said he saw several pieces of jewelry on the floor of the express car after the robbery. The bandits are thought to have crossed the Missouri river near the scene of the robbery and to have started south.
 NohY,Yo prnun rnrarov here for the American Express com pany, said there was no shipment Of money in the express safe, but that there were few packages of jewelry, the value of which he would not esti- mate.
 F1agman Def1es Robbers.
 The first news of the robbery was given by the fagman of the flyer. Despite warnings of the bandits, he got off the rear passenger coach and ran back to Watson, where he notified the station agent that the train had been held up.
 Covered With Revolvers.
 Members of the train crew who the robbery while two Of the bandits held them covered with revolvers against the bluffs of the river, declared the bandits obtained several thousand dollars.
 The bandits boarded the blind" baggage at Matson and after riding three miles crawled to the cab and covered the fireman and engineer with revolvers. After detaching the coaches they wanted, the bandits the crew to run them about B mile up the track.
 Disappeared in Woods.
 Done with their work of pillaging, they ordered the crew back to the train and then disappeared in the woods.