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Show TRAIN WAS HELD UP EXPRESS CAR DYNAMITER i Two Boys Take a Hand In the Robbing Rob-bing of Passengers and Are Captured, Cap-tured, but Declared They Did Not Know the Robbers. Seattle, Wash. Tho Oreat Northern North-ern Overland train leaving Seattle nt .20 o'clock Monday night was held lip and tho baggage and express car dnamltcd half a mllo cast of Mllo post 10, about five miles from Ballard, nt 8:45 p. m. Threo men arc known to havo dona tho work. Two boys, who got on tha blind baggage here, as soon as th holdup began, entered tho passenger coaches and began holding up the pas, sengcrs. Thoy wero captured. Thoy say two of tho men were on the blind baggngo when they g.t on, and the, third got on at Ballard. All wore well dressed, with rain coats and slouch hats. Tho train was flagged nour thq brickyard, and as the engineer slowed up two men wit,') rain coats climbed over tho tender and presented rovol-vers rovol-vers to his head. When tho trnln stopped the baggngo and cxprosH cat was uncoupled by one of the robbery and the engineer Instructed to pull ahead, which he did for soverul lain dred yards, when he was again corat tnanded to stop. Two of tho robbers then Jumped off, making tho engineer and fireman da the Banio, nnd all marched to the baggage bag-gage car door. Tho messenger was commanded to open tho door, and. r fusing, an extrn heavy chargo of dynamite dy-namite was placed against It and ox. ploded. The explosion tore tho car almost to pieces. The safe was then dynamited. After securing the contents of tho safe the three men started off In uu easterly direction. It Is bclloved other members of tho gang wero ahead of the scene of tho holdup nnd tho rob. hers Joined them. Tho two boyn claim they never met the holdups until they got on tho trnln, and are In no way connected with their work. Tho ldoa to hold up tho passengers occurred to them after tho explosion. |