The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-14
POLICE START
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that no local planes were up today, postal inspectors said.
 MT. Germer said the Rondout rob bery and recent mail robberies at Har- yeF, H., and Indiana Harbor had many similar features and added that postal authorities had been warned re- gently to be on the lookout for a band of Philadelphia criminals, who were reported to be joining hands with Chicago robbers for a raid on the mails.
 The train raid was one of the bold est and most complete in history, au- thorities say.
 The train, en route from Chicago to St. Paul, was stopped at Rondout, H., 32 miles north of Chicago. The train, carrying eight mail coaches and two express cars, left Chicago at 9 o'clock central standard time. Fifty minutes later the bandits took posses sion of the train. In 55 minutes more they gathered between 42 and 45 pouches of registered mail and sped away into the darkness.
 One Man Shot.
 Only one man was shot. He was a member of the robber gang mistaken by one of his fellows for a member of the train crew.
 Although the train carried more than 70 mail clerks and guards, all armed, only those in three coaches were compelled to face the guns of the robbers. These coaches carried the registered and first class mail.
 The robbers forced their way into the cars by breaking the coach win dows and throwing bombs filled with chlorine gas. The clerks and guards, nearly overcome by the deadly fumes, were forced to open the doors and al- low the robbers to enter.
 Officials are certain that the holdup had been arranged by a group of men thoroughly familiar with railroad and railroad mail clerks work.
 At least two of the robbers concealed themselves aboard the mail special be- fore it left Chicago. The train had just gone through Rondout and was travelling close to 60 miles an hour. Two men, carrying flash sticks and revolvers, came from their hiding place between the tender and the first coach, era wled across the swaying coal ten der and into the engine cab.
 The muzzle of one wea non was pushed against the neck of Engineer S. R. Waite of Milwaukee. The other bandit covered the Fireman E J. Dib- ble also of Milwaukee.
 You're Done
 "A half mile down the track you'll see red light flashed on the west side of the tracks, the man back of the engineer said. "When you see that light, you'll stop the train. If you don't you're done."
 The train reared on but with slack ening speed as the bandit had ordered slow application of the brakes. Just where the Buckley road, a popular au- tomobile route between Chicago and Libertyville, cut the track. a red light flared close to the west rail.
 Now jerk it, the bandit yelled into the engineers car.
 The engineer did. Before the train came to a full stop third bandit cut the airline pipe.
 The clerks in the middle car, look ing out of the car windows saw two automobiles parked on the east side of the train and two on the west. Seeing that something was wrong, and accord ing to their orders, they extinguished all lights in the coaches.
 The bandits ordered them to open the doors and when they refused the bandits hurled several bombs of gas through the window. This coach was iA charge of Luis Phillips of Minneapolis, chief of all postal clerks on the train Some of the inside of the. car fired and was answered by another gas bomb. Then the resistance of Phillips and his men did not last. Against the deadly fumes the courage of the men and their pistols were intellectual.
 The car next to the middle one also containing registered mail, was also