Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-19
j. P. PASSENGER
TRAIN IS ROBBED
BY LONE BANDIT
Man Believed to Be An Is
capped Convict, For Whom
Posses Were Searching, Is
Thought to Have Done Deed

nv MORNING. JOURNAL sPtcIAL leased wiRu
Cheyenne, Wyo., Nov. 1S.--A lone
bandit, believed to be william Car
lisle, notorious train robber and es-
capped convict, tonight boarded west
bound Union Pacific train number
10, the Los Angeles Limited, robbed
passengers of tourist sleeper of
money and valuaples, and escaped
amid shower of bullets from train
guards, as the train slowed down
near Medicine Bow, Wyo.
Late tonight he was being hunted
by posses from Medicine Bow, Rock
River, Saratoga and Wheatland, and
special train is carrying a troop
of cavalry from Fort d. A. Russell,
near here, together with an armed
posse under the direction of w. j..
McClement, chief of detectives for
the railroad The bandit is said to
be wounded and II is believed his
capture is certainty.
Passengers Are Robbed.
The bandit boarded the train at
Rock River After the train had
left Rock River, he entered tour
list car, relieving passengers of their
valuables at the point of gun.
Armed guards, placed on the train
after railroad officials learned Of
Carlisles escape from the state
prison at Rawlins, were attracted to
the car Just as the train was nearing
Medicine Bow, and opened fire as
the bandit jumped from the plat
form.
The train was travelling about 20
miles an hour and a dozen shots
We're fired as the bandit rolled down
an embankment. The train was
stopped and the guards, accompanied
by United States Marshal Don f.
Hudson, who was a passenger, re-
turned to the place where the ban
dit had jumped, Blood was found
on the revolver which the bandit
had dropped and it was believed he
was wounded His hat was found
and is said to answer the description
of the hat Carlisle stole from sheep
herder yesterday.
While the robbery was being per-
petrated, another armed posse was
searching the red desert near Wam-
sutter, Wyo., for Carlisle, where he
was last seen following his escape
Saturday from the state prison. Car
Isle is believed to have doubled on
his tracks, caught an eastbound train
early today and to have passed
through Wamsutter as the posse was
detraining for the expedition into
the desert.
Carlisle n Daring Bandit.
The posse from Saratoga, which is
about 30.miles southwest 70 the scene
of the robbery, will endeavor to pre-
vent the bandits escape to the Colo
RADIO mountains. The posse from
Wheatland will scour the country
to the north of that place for about
so miles, where Carlisle hid out for
three weeks following one OF MS
train robberies in 1916,
Carlisle is one of the most daring
bandits in the states history, Al
one time he told Union Pacific Off
cials in a letter he would rob GER
tain train and did so, despite pre-
cautions. Two of his train robberles
were staged within five days. lie is
said never to have used his revolver
except to frighten people ana 10
have shown unusual consideration Tor
women and children.
Rawlins. Wyo., Nov. 1s.-The ban
dit who held up Union Pacific pas
senger train No. 10 tonight apparently
was badly wounded according to an
account of the robbery told here by
passengers. The train platform from
which he leaped was covered with
blood. A passenger fired at the BAN
dit lust before he left the train, It was
said, and other shots were fired into
the darkness.
Armed with a revolver and carry
ing n rifle slung over his shoulder and
n shotgun, the bandit entered the tour
ist coach by breaking a vestibule WIN
dow. according to Machinist Mate El-
kins one OF the passengers.
Flkins said he was in the smoker
when the bandit entered the car, 1T
ing a shot through the roof and call
ing to the passengers to hold up their
hands, The bandit had cut his hands
in smashing the window.
Elkins said he heard woman
scream and then the woman ran INTO
the smoker and told him there was
trouble. When he entered the car ne
was greeted by the command, "Hola
up your hands" Elkins was ordered
to sit down "and behave" Then the
bandit added. "I am not robbing oid
men, women and children, soldiers or
sailors"
The bandit got $3.50, according to
reports
After leaving the car, Elkins SAID,
the bandit pulled the cord and waited
for the train to stop. AS ne stooh III
the vestibule, passenger crept from
the smoker and fired point blank at
the bandit. A quantity OF blood was
found on the vestibule floor. SeVerai
shots were fired at MIN as ne made
his escape. Elkins said he was salts
fled the bandit was badly hit.
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