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Show KOBBERS HOLD UP BURLINGTON PASSENGER TRAIN. Denver, Colo., Sept. 12. Westbound passenger train No. 3 on the Burlington Burling-ton railroad, which arrived in Denver at 7:10 o'clock this morning, was held up five miies east of Haigler, Neb., at 1.40 o'clock by a masked robber, who secured from the passengers about ?-300 in money, two diamond rings, one : diamond stud, three goid watches, and other articles of minor value, all ; amounting to about $1,000. ! The lone robber, flourishing a re- ! volver, made his way through the car and forced his victims to hand over their property, threatening to shoot if they did not comply. A good description of the road agent was secured, and Burlington oHicials at once offered a reward of $1,000 for his capture, dead or alive. The robber is about five feet eight inches tall, weight 100 pounds, dressed in blue overalls. linen hat and striped jacket; about 3-" years old; brown hair. The robber boarded the train at Ben- , kleman, 208 miles out of Denver, where a stop was made to cool off a hot box and take on water. He made his way from the rear car-into the sleeper, and . there covered Porter Beli with a re- : volver and compelled him to start through the car, drawing -back the i curtains from berths. j W S. Tomlinson, the brakeman, was j also compelled to go ahead and pull J back berth curtains. The robber con- ! fined his operations to the men. and : h,is orders were sharp and to the point, j "Pig ui) vour nurse." he commanded i of hi. W. Wilson of Sacramento, who was in the Chicago sleeper. Wilson "dug up" $20 in gold and a diamond ring worth $175. He had other money and his watch, but the robber overlooked over-looked these. "I had no time to think." said Wilson, Wil-son, this morning. "When the man ordered me to deliver my valuables I knew that he meant what he said. I simply handed him what was convenient con-venient and he went on.' He had me covered with his revolver and was preceded pre-ceded by the brakeman, who opened the curtains for him. There was com- I paratively no excitement. It was all over in a few minutes, and when the robber dropped off the train in the dark there were few who realized fully what had happened." Mrs. W. B. Tebbetts. wife of Alderman Alder-man Tebbetts of this city, was a passenger pas-senger on the train, with her young son. They occupied berths in the Chicago Chi-cago car. "The brakeman drew back the cur-, tains of my berth and the masked man looked in." she said. "He just glanced at me and said, "Oh, she's a woman-we woman-we won't bother her.' Then he passed on. He robbed all of the men on the car, but treated all the women courteously cour-teously and robbed none of them." Conductor E. J. Dixon, who had charge of the two sleepers, was helpless help-less to prevent the robbery. Train Conductor Charles Bronson was in the smoking car and knew nothing about the affair until it was over. "The robber covered me with a gun and made me open the berths for him." said Brakeman Tomlinson. "I walked ahead of him. knowing that if I made a '. talse move I would be shot, and as I opened each berth he called for the occupant's oc-cupant's valuables and got them without with-out protest." The losses of the passengers are estimated esti-mated to amount to about $1,000.' |