The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1915-10-08
CONDUCTOR PAS
SES THE HAT
Hold-up Men Force Conduc-
tor to Rob Passengers.

vi y III pan 4>o Ios luS SldNk tldll
of the c. M. & St. p. which left
Aberdeen at / :55 Sunday afternoon
was boarded at Glencoe, Mimi, bv
two bandits who relieved the pas
sengers of the observation car of
their cash which amounted to $3.50.
1t is supposed that the bandits
boarded the train as it pulled out
of Glencoe. The men were first
noticed by Flagman Nj. G.. Haw-
thorne and Brakeman John Muir
ply. who were standing in the YES
tibule at the rear OF the last sleep
er. The robbers ordered the train
men to throw up their hands.
7 h e trainmen both complied,
but Murphy lodged into the sleep
er and locked the door of the car.
One robber took a lantern and then
went into the observation car, and
when asked by Conductor Mcclure
of Minneapolis what he was doing
with the lantern, he opened fire
upon him. The two bullets passed
on either side of the conductor S
head and so close was the fire that
the powder burned marks on his
face.
The bandits then commanded the
passengers of the car to line up
the men OH one side and the wo-
men on the other. The conductor
was then compelled to pass his cap
before the victims who had to drop
all their money in it, the collection
amounting to S247. This the rob-
bers took and as the train stopped
at Hopkins they disappeared. The
robbers waited nothing from the
passengers but their cash, none of
their other valuables being taken.
The hat on tile first round netted
the bandits S257.75. AS he threw
out some jewelry that had been
tossed into it, the bandit said,
There's not enough bill books in
here. Pass it again" But the
passengers protested they had put
in all the money they had. The
robbers fired two more shots, one
over the heads of the passengers,
which embedded itself in the cell
ing and was later dug out by de-
tectives, and the other which went
through a window, close to a re-
bellious passenger.
While the bandits were operat-
ing in the last car the widest ex-
citement prevailed in the forward
coaches. Women hearing the
shots to the rear, screamed and two
passengers tainted. The express
messenger and several parties of
hunters who were returning from
all over-Sunday shoot got out their
guns and, stationing themselves
on the steps and vestibules of the
cars, awaited the moment when
the bandits should stop the train.
When the robbers finally pulled
the air a few miles west of Hop
kins, setting the brakes, the train
stopped with such jerk that near.
1y all of the passengers were
thrown from their seats and the
men with guns were barely able to
keep their precarious foothold on
the steps.
H. Johnson, who lives at the
Hastings hotel, was one of the few
men who were able to aim in the
direction of the bandits and fire.
Mr.. Johnson, using bird shot, fired
three times from his pump gun,
and OH the second shot saw one of
the robbers stagger. The robbers
before disappearing fired several
shots in the direction of the front
end of the train. Despite the dan.
ger. several of the passengers and
the train crew hurried back ex
,pecting to find the wounded robber.
They didnot go many feet from
the train and no trace of the man
was found.-Aberdeen American.