Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-22
MASKED BANDITS HOLD
= UP TRAIN IN TENNESSEE
- cinnati to Columbia Robbed
y of Mails.
~ OMAN IN THE CAS- l.
: Detectives, Securing Woods in Effort
to Find Man With Broken Nose
Who Is Suspected OF Planning
Theft.
tBy Associated preksl

NASHVILLE. TENN. August eli
With railroad and post. Office detectives
securing Middle Tennessee ana follow
ing every Indication OF Il clue late this
afternoon, the four bandits who held
up and robbed Louisville and Nashville
passenger train No. ten miles south of
Columbia last night were still at large.
one clue was based on the report that
a woman and two men We're seen driv-
ing in an automobile near the scene OF
tho robbery late last night. coupled
with the mysterious appearance here
two days ago of a woman who ella lined
TO be from Western State and had a
ticket for Glendale, the station near
which the robbery occurred
a slim deliCate-looking man of about
Twenty-Five years. with a broken nose.
lis also being sought by tho officers.
Engineer Wray having told govern
rncnt officials this Was the only man
who took off his mask. Other clues
are being followed.
Although no official estimate OF the
amount OF booty taken by the robbers
here today that the bandits got 100000
in cash from the mali car.
Hold Ir Engineer.
According TO ". r. Mulvihiil. the
fireman. two OF the bandits boarded the
train at Columbia, riding the blind
the bandits climbed over the tender
and pointing their guns AZ tho enSi-
neer and firoalaA, shouted, The train Is
held up
ordered TO run the train until they
came TO - white light. The light APP
peared just south OF Glendale. and was
= searCh!!ght held By one of the ban
While two bandits stayed with Wray,
Il :hird compelled Mulvihill 10 go back,
with him ana cut of the engine. eA-
press car. baggage car and mail car.
TIN their way back they met :. II.
Allen. conductor OF the train. on his
way 10 the engine 10 investigate the
stopping Of the train. After the train
Xas cu;. the robber ordered the fireman
and conductor 20 get into the coaches,
which they did.
Forced TO Drive Mail Car Away.
The .h-es bandits then forced the
cng !-e.r 10 drive the engine. with bag
case express and mail cars attached 10
Il, 70 9 point about half mile beEo9a
where the passenger coaches were &C.
4::s- -t,iac the mails the bandits
cut the engine loose. threw the tATo:-
tie wide OPEN and LEFT ne !oconl3t'Es
Glendale. l. STOPPED rear Wales Sta
..ot., eight miles north g PULASKI
Before, cutting ,as e"sins loose
.Scs9-6iar % Way Re was hiding in
the bushes along the tracks.
7A:s CLERKS aaa VIA We're then or,
: t-4M - threats tol!owins The ban
dis then escaped in an autonlo bile.
which : believed 70 have heeI. Drought
by hzndiI No I.
Passengers On the train were not dis
tg-3=i Many WHO were IN the day
coaches kuew the train had stopped
huc not that i waS ocias robbed.
Those n. ;he s!sepers knew nothing
Until, dsybrea2:.
Spread Net TO Get Bandits.
:. " B-ant assistant superintendent
o. ,re ro4d stated Thursday he WAS IN
Formed an automobile answering the
description az the one used by the
bandits was seen near Franklin, and
w-s headed for Nashville.
Chief Deputy Sheriff Moore stationed
men al through the outskirts IN hopes
vf q ptu-iCE The men
Express company and railroad Off
c.z.s are @: the opinion the men are
Old heads q: m: game. The" draw
thei- conclusions from the easy way
N which The bandits worked ana The
Ny inc robbery was planned Brant
p!!mcAtcd the crew on the COO!
wo-k while under IRE"
Conductor Allen is one of the Oldest
conductors on the Louisville and Nash
Vile. lie lives IN Nashville The train
eft Nashville 1t 1905 Wednesday,
night. i was then thirteen minutes
late, and was on It's way TO Birming-
nam and New orleans.