Show f J 3 Wi c S F I t tA A CHEEKY ROBBER KOBBEE ATTEMPT TO HOLD UP AN EXPRESS EXPRESS EX EX- PRESS MESSENGER Bandit Attempts Single Handed A Daring tempts andIs and andis to Secure 0 B Fortune but bat Tails Fails Fals Is Captured S train which left NewYork New The Tho express York To on the tho Hudson River road Saturday bad 1 experience the hen V the train was rn near to ton when wIth his two coach bis the In n u a trainmen thought be heard the air all whistle sound vary faintlY It I was wn enough to t ar arOuse ue S him bins to ver the belief belef that something was wa aa wong wrong out on the platform plat plat- in th time the express egress car Going ot plat eress into it and Sf he climbed int 4 the coach formal form for 1 cord the bell where lo looked k d through the hole bole bel cd the upper part of a aman aman lie Jle saw thrown through comes omes man man whose face helens helens' the eyes was concealed ho he The messenger mask by r ii ted a flannel ina back set the air went wellS could not see ses' lie Ho- called his two tra trainmen amen The brakes and three stood leaning out front the platform looking along the sides rf the express car Suddenly a mans man's form appeared at the side ride door of the tho express car ballets whistled past their heads beads and evoke was heard beard commanding them to signal lbs eat eri- the consequences gin er to go ahead ghead or take The trainmen were unarmed The conductor off and man run back told one of his men to- to jump to-jump Jump to Jordan and telegraph along the line to re report report re- re port that they had bad a train robber on board 3 was done mend and the conductor signaled the engineer to go ahead at full speed thinking thinking think think- ing that time the robber robter would not dare jump and would be captured as the next stop The train went to Fort Byron Here flere the brakes and the trainmen went Rent to the tho u were ere set again express car The ear car showed signs of a desperate smug smug- gle gb Money packages and j jewelry w were ere lying scattered about everything in the ear car was stained with blood and Messenger was lying bleeding from several wounds anti nd almost Unconscious The robber was nowhere to be seen and was supposed to have jumped and made his escape wanted to tobe tobe be brought on to P A telegram for foran foran an an ambulance was sent on to Rochester anti and the train w went ent on to Lyons the next stop The new rf had spread all along the line by this time and the station at Lyons was alive with wills Among others in the crowd was wasa a well dressed man wearing gold glasses eye and carrying a satchel his shoulder Now it had noticed noticed no- no the young man at the station at Syracuse before the train started out and they tad had not seen him since and the question whet what he lie was doing at Lyons at once suggested Itself An attempt to arrest him w was as made put revolvers and held the crowd back and backed across the yard until he lie reached a a. coal train tb engine of which had steam up us ready to P 4 r r th the the- He pulled the pin U e r n cr to the first car He He- climbed over the coal into the cab drove the engineer and fireman out with his revolvers pulled open the throttle and started the en en- gine S The trainmen gave chose chase on another loo lo motive and a hot chase hase and a lively fusillade followed The fellow took to the woods and was was was' finally captured by farmers It transpires that he had at att first gotten on top of the express car and then lowered himself him him- sell self by means of a hooked pole to the car door and gotten In A hot fight ensued with the express messenger who f ws s badly wound wound- ed After the robber had bad been Discovered he be climbed back to the roof where he be rode toL to L Lyons ons He lie secured nothing at all 7 Ma desperate des dee venture t |