Show S d S 5 j THE DAMON DALTON ROB AN EXPRESS TRAIN Forty Thousand Dollars from a Missouri Ells Kansas Hensas Texas Train In Territory The Missouri Kansas Texas passenger train No 2 southbound was held up by a gang of masked robbers at Adam Adair Indian Territory late Thursday night The robbers robie secured the contents of the safe of the thc Pacific Express Company and made good their es cc- cape It Is believed that the were the Dalto Palto n gang who are arc responsible for n a large number of similar crimes in the tory the latest being the tho robbery of the SantaFe Santa SantaFe Fe express near Eed Rock Hock hardly a month Four of the gang v were ere recently captured captured cap cap- near Guthrie and a was ou the tho track of the others of the gang S The capture of the four took place in the early part of this week and It was believed that the remaining members would certainly be captured They evidently eluded their pursuers and while yet fresh from the pursuit pun pur suit committed another daring robbery It Is ii believed that the four men revealed the plot of nights to-night's robbery for lor a posse was organized organ iced at Adair to protect the Missouri Kansas I Texas train The method of the tho robbery corresponds with the methods of all the Dalton Dai- Dai 5 ton operations The train had just loft Adam when two men crawled over the tender terrorized the tha engineer en and fireman with drawn revolvers and commanded the engineer to stop the train As he did so the posse poise prepared for an attack at tack which was Immediately made madd by tIne tho members of the gang from the tho road load side J. J G. G Kennedy and two Indian policemen members mem mern- here bers of the posse retreated and left the robbers rob rob- bers bersa a clear clearfield field The express messenger in the meantime had locked his safe and hidden the key after hiving having barricaded the doors of the car The 4 robbers broke through the barricade dulled drilled T the safes and blew them open with powder securing their entire contents The amount stolen Is believed to be In the neighborhood of The robbers escaped |