Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-12-02

soldiers un the train.
Sterrctt told his story IN narrative form.
in Justice Of the Peace H. j. Kirk court,
and said in part:
IL am brakeman on the st. Louis,
Brownsville & Mexico passenger train and
on the night OF the wreck | was Ill front
or the negro compartment Of the day coach
with Mr.. Harvey, the new~ agent Mr. To
ran, the conductor. and Dock Washington,
q passenger. When the wreck occurred
Mr. Koran was telling a. a story. | ut
first thought that the air hose had broken
and started toward the ve~tibule connect
ing the day coach and mail ear When
had almost reached the door | saw that
the mail car was turning over and the YES
tibules were crossing each other. | start
ca to get back a. far ~ | could and-callcd
10 Mr.. Koran that we were turning over.
think had gotten back about three win
dows when the shooting started from the
outside. | told Mr.. Horan that the ban
dts had got n. Mr.. Koran dropped on
his knees and started toward the front Of
'ht 'NA" ~tHltSu ~ az paCh lpMaiu tug
white compartment when saw four sol
der, starting TO run toward me and |
crouched down between the seats
"Lopez and another man came into the
car first The other man was a black Mex
lean and looked like a negro. Lopez came
N shooting. That man +indicating Cuhal-
lero) came in after Lopez and the first
man. Lopez had shotgun or Winchester
strapped over his shoulder and a bic pis-
tol IN his hand. When lie came To rob
me he put the pistol ID hi~ pocket lie
made me unite my left shoe and then took
long knife or dirk and rut the lacc- ~
my right shoe The dirk wgs either paint
ed red around the hlt or had red string
wrapped around il. 4 soldier was living
dead with hiS feet inside the negro com
partment and hl- body in the white com
rarment. lie was lying on hi~ face Ca
baIlero united his shoes The little black
Mexican reached for my watch The watch
rolled under the arm of the dead soldier
and Lopez looked around for minute a,
though looking for H. a man on the out
side of the coach kept calling .andalc.
andalc. When hc started ont Lopez han
my grip. another grip and my shoes under
ms arm and dropped one OF the shoes.
'Then ! jumped ont Of the window and
saw them riding off. going west II seemed
to me thpre must have been about forty
nr fifty ~ them. ! went 10 mans house
and asked him If he had telephone. and
he told me that he did not. went to an
other house and when the man told me he
had no telephone | asked him ID Tot me
have horse. told him was Y brake
man and that the train had been wrecked
and robbed and | wanted to ,all sheriff
Nann. The man would not let me have =
horse and would not come after Mr. Nanr
himself. next came 10 prc~-ler', i'm
and cot Mr.. PrcS~er to call Mr.. Nann anc
Colonel Block~om M Brownsville and IN,
superintendent at kiH.>ville 10 tell him moi
To let anything else leave san Benito.
went back to the wreck with sheriff Vann
was robbed Of between - and 80 cent.
IN money, band ring. my grip and ~,
ram coat. One man took IL al Loprz !,
ihc man. saw Lopez shoot Corporal Ne
Bee. next saw Lopez about eightccr
days after the wreck when Captain Ran.
som had him. | did not know that he hae
been arrested when he walked into the chi
and told Mr. Harvey. the news agent
there's the devil that robbed u..' tnl,
Captain Ransom that that was the mar
that robbed me- | saw him again the fol
lowing Monday at the Jail. picked hin
out OF a group of ten or fifteen men in IN,
jail After had described the knife I,
him, Mr.. Price, the ranger, showed me III,