The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-06-19
Kenosha Police Visit Scene
of Big Mail Express
Robbery Friday.
FAR FROM HOUSES
Police Secretary Takes Photo
graphs of Scene Of Bold
Train Hold-up.

Kenosha police made visit to Rond-
out Friday afternoon to go over the
Ground where the biggest mail train
holdup on record was pulled of Inurs-
day night when dozen professional
robbers, with the aid of gas bombs ana
pistols, stopped mail express anu
secured az bags of U. S. mail contain
ing couple of million dollars.
The train hold-up was staged at
lonely spot called Buckley's crossing
where the Buckley road crosses the 81.
Paul tracks just two miles north OF
the tinv coaling station of Rondout.
The road is one on which there is 1T
tie traffic and houses few and lar pc
tween.
A Romantic Region.
Viewed in the light of the midday
sun. it was hard to imagine the thrill
ling melodrama which had been enact
ed in the same place only the nlght
before. Chief Logan, Assistant Chief
Cvzak. Lieutenant Rock and Secretary
Meissner arrived on the scene about
two o'clock and found it as peaceful
and green a spot as could be found IN
the whole Fox River valley. Only two
Young men in working clothes were on
tbe spot when the Kenosha police ar
rived. but they were joined later by
DEPUTY Sheriff Lester Tiffany of Wau-
kegan and newspaper representatives.
Yellow mustard filled the meadows
bevond the ditch of Buckley's crossing.
Hedges spilled over with green ana
the trees and bushes afforded a close.
screen from every direction. The only
house to be seen was about hundred
feet away.
Sees Kenosha Uniform.
The farmer who lived in this place
came down attracted by the sight OF
the police uniform worn by Mr.. Cyzak
and askef Vi q7y5ody had been killed
Mt the crost--g. a-isisss nearly with
in stones throw he had slept through
the excitement of Thursday night with
out hearing anything and learned his
first. particulars of the hold-up from
the Kenosha police.
The scene was one which suggested
more the situation for love scene in
a comedy than the spot where bold
crime would be committed, but this
was viewed at midday.
At night, especially under the vague
moonlight and with dropping fog
hanging from trees and hedges, no
doubt the scene wore another aspect.
The boldness of the hoId-up, the clear,
lines Of the design and the carrying
out of the plot were the aspects which
most affected the Kenosha officers as
they went ovev the ground and react
ed the picture for their own satisfac-
ton. Photographs of the spot were
taken by Secretary Meissner.
BeIie~e Two Cars Found.
Nests in She grass showed where the
hold-up nen had laid hiding while
waiting f5t the powerful searchlight
of the fast mail express, When the
train slowed down these men knew
that their pair on the train had done
their job and overpowered the engin-
eer.
The train went too far and it was
forced to go back three car lengths.
Then one of the men jumped off the
tender. He was one of the gang of
thieves but his waiting pals took him
for a train man and shot. When they
discovered their mistake he was pulled
over the fence and hustled into wait
ing automobile and taken away with
the mail pouches. The blood bespat-
tered fence told this mute story.
Tiffany on his arrival told the Ke-
nosha police that two of the automo-
biles believed to have been used in
getting away the loot had been reeov-
cred. Both had been stolen and recov-
cred Friday at Waukegan. They were
a Studebaker stolen from a Wilmette
man at Highland Park Thursday eve
ming and an Overland stolen from Will
liam Dominick of Hubbards' Woods
between nine and ten of the night of
the hold-up; that is about quart
ers of an hour before the train rob-
berry was pulled off. These two cars
were found later abandoned in Wauke-
gan.