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Show J BANDITS' tlO HELD UMTIE tfc RAIN HAf NOT BEEN CAUGHT r " - ' 5 A ley re Pertaced Naders and Show j i ffie Passenger Crew i Trick or Two j Conductor and Bngk Tell of Their '; j; erieiceTrain las to Have .: f Been field Up Mays Ago UrMng ou the robberr "3' are Ira ,rv.i,,i ,Condur'o story rahiBLff1? tbt not onh tho I perlencBL" Ut tholr vernacular v lion of "Hfctfm Persons who n well markBroarjt. have worked on jjL'0!! ry. I Second AttemptKjA lH 0(,n. I Conductor MIddleton sajrBpfp, jQ I vlnccd theso same men &ttnlw,out I hold vip the Overland LhMtod "Lj ten days ago. One evening, as tli5 ttain was running late, It mot with the same experience as to the block signals this side of Reese, Had the train at that time been, looted the w;i robbers would have Tnado a rich haul, '4 ' as the Overland was crowded with wealthy people going homo for the 'T holidays. "iMv first intimation that the train was hcing held up, aid the conductor conduc-tor this afternoon, "was when an excited ex-cited porter rushed through the car in which I -was counting my tickets and said there wero holdup men on Sthe train. This porter was making toward to-ward tho head end of the train and did not stop to explain. I got up and started toward tho head of tho train to go to the "baggage car and look i ut the door. As a did so I took my watch from my vest pocket and placed it in my hip pocket 1 found 1- (he baggage car door locked and start-tiiback start-tiiback through the diner. At tho ciidof the littlo hallway leading into the car proper I met Pullman Conductor,. Con-ductor,. J. P. Plunkett and just behind him Brakeman Hancock, Hancock was carrying a sack and just as these two trainmen came into my sight T caught mj: first glimpse of the ban-cits. ban-cits. "Tho robbers -were right back of the trainmen and had the Pullmau mm and brakeman covered with their short-barreled rifles. When the tall u ' rahbsr saw me he said, 'Dig up.' I tt i cached into my pants' pocket and ' drew out about two dollars in money I rnd dumped it into tho sack, which I Hancock mechanically held foith to I ireeivo It 'Put In your watch,' the tf.-' tall ,nan commanded, but I held back. I, "Hancock, still holding tho hateful sack toward me, said warningly J 'You'd better put in tho watch.' The tall man reached forth and grabbed , " 1'Olj of one end of my mustache and J gae It such a vicious pull that the & wntch came out of my pocket in a K i hurry and dropped into tho sack Han-v Han-v cork told mo afterward that ho was afraid tho robbers would kill me for resisting. Ho had witnessed the t"th of the colored porter and was more unnerved than ho would otherwise other-wise have been. 1 "I was ordered to proceed ahead P r -r.Uh Jtiiunkott and Hancock and 1 k I bbVcd. wW-tfy-1110 to the bag-"-ago coach iho door wft found to be lacked and tho men maffo effort to open it I believe tliey werfcfrald , to try to forco it. Forced Off the Train. "Finally all of us got off the train and started toward the engine. Tho robbers had opened the air valve and the train was now at a dead standstill. stand-still. At the engine we found the fireman, but Engineer Rowse had gone hack along the train to And out what was tho matter. The-fireman was covered with the guns of tho ' two men, but was not robbed, one of the robbers saying that a fireman ' never had any money anyway." The conductor told of how the en-t en-t Rne and dvnamo car was detached rj; from the train propor and of the ro-ftl ro-ftl turn of Engineer Rowse. Ho com-mS-vf niei,i i.nnn Rnwse's coolness and 1 of n1, ieslstlng when ordered to speed J r his etjno jn getting from the sid- ing to the man rckthe conduc-I conduc-I tor said that tho robbTH'DCOUniftndod the engineer not to bother about f opening the switch. h Ijf "Go ahead," ordered the tall han-Vm han-Vm dit. "we'll split that switch," 5j5 Conductor JHddleton says the voice -Till of tno ta'4 bandit was not a strange K IP olce as he had heard it before. --l When the Overland pulled out from J Reese at 12:35, after tho holdup, the I passengers had very little to say. AH 1 of them were somewhat In a trance 1 and It as somo time before tho , I shock wore off. j Tho train reached lomontory at I riOn. m., and sent the first news 1 ' of the hold-up to Ogden, over iwo J hours after the first stop, just prior (o the robbers boarding the train. , It Is the opinion of Conductor Mld- 11eton tliat the robbers secured In the neighborhood of $1,400 In money, ;We slates that ho figures it al this amount from the statements of the robbed passengers. Engineer's Experience. I Perhaps the coolest man of the Overland Limited during the exciting ( moments of the hold-up was Englner-r Edward Rowse, who resides at 713 Twenty-sixth street, air. Rowse was ( spen at his homo by a Staudard re- i -porter this morning "and told the fol iAf i,! lowing story of the robbery of his si train: $, , "We pulled out of Ogden, Monday Inmnteht, several hours late and wTe W running at the top notch, of speod Bv,lf'1 wp nearC(1 fl1 intPrinHlaio Klloclv about a mile and a liilf this &M0 ( of (EReese siding. TVe must have i ueen;eding along at the rate of GO inllelui hour when two torpedoes o.xploH under tho engine wheots and causefmc to close the throttle ana I put oiTho air. Two torpedoes means cautiopmd it was up to me to slow J doKUjjust ahead was the block and as I ajjroached I saw the gleam of red shiving In the darkness. I .. Engineer Signaled. "Thealn came to a halt near the hlock vA head Brakeman Cross, car-i car-i I'.nug afcntern ran ahead of the en-e'ne en-e'ne audproceeded to walk down the track tcyard Reese where the next "Jock is located. I followed with Uie train, running at a rate of about three niiles per hour. It must havo taken about twenty minutes to reach the Reese block and this sicnal showed ar. I concluded that something hau'Tierjjly gone wrong with the in-ternietslock in-ternietslock and sigualed to the crew that wDjyould go ahead. Tho front brakeman ajlcHmbed aboard the train. v"- .,A ' "Jnsi as I was about to throw open the throttle and start, someone in the rear opened the air valves whlcli i set all the brakes to emergency tight- I ly and we were stuck. I thought thia must be an accident and was bewail ing the combination of things which weie making the train so late when over the tender of, the engine, climbed climb-ed an ashen-faced porter. He was the palest colored man r have ever seen and his excitement caused him 1o stutter so that wo could hardly mako out what he said. Everybody Being Killed. "'Mr. Engineer,' he stuttered, 'robbers 'rob-bers have got dis train, and they is killin' the people. They has killed one porter and jest about klllod another an-other porter. They 1ms look everybody's every-body's money.' "TbeT'orter was too badly scared to tell whether the robbers were still on the train or not. To the best of his shattered knowledge, they were devoting most of their time to killing colored porters and were af'er him. "I told the fireman that I would go back and Investigate. McLean tried to persuade me not to go us I might get shot, but I told him I would lake a chance and with a lightel torchsI climbed out of the cab andstarted back to the rear of the train. I wan:- ed to learn if the opening of the air valve had broken anything on the train acd was making on inspnctlou of the air connections and couplings i as I proceeded back along the train. "Without any intcrferonc?, I reached reach-ed the rear end of the traiu and there met the brakeman, who was standing on the track with his lantern lighting i the bleak surrounding's. He hadn't spen any of the bandits, but In knew that thej- were on the train and made a fer,- remarks about the siluatiou. j wondering whether tho men had fln-i fln-i ished the sacking of Viz train and teft Neither of us had a weapon of any kind. Continued on Page Six.) oo I BANDITS HAVE I NOT BEEN CAUGHT VJJ (Continued From Page One.) 4j Had Tfelr Hands Up. M "Finally wo decided to. board the m back end or the train nnd see what Ml w,s s'n& on m tnc coaches. I took j -c lead and we went Into the last j jJW"' coach. It was a most nniiMinl scene Bm that met our gaze as we opened the l mm door. T n the coach were a half 'dozen, j K people with their hands held high above their heads and their faces pal- Hl Jid with fright. Somehow the hu- Hl morous sldo of the thing struck me t and f could not teslst laughing. H "I asked, 'What fBjhe matter?' and H one of the passengers mustered up H courage enough to reply that the train U had been robbed nnd that thev were obeying the orders of tho bandits I 9 ald. 'The robbers have gono, put Hj down vonr hands.' But not one of the passengers was in a condition to WWJf' obey an order not backed up by a H pun and the spokesman replied that the lobbers were in the next coach and would kill any one who put down his hands Ht' Tried to Move the Train. H "The brakeman and I backed out of H the coach, leaving the passengers with their hands still held In the' tiresome H vertical position that seemed safest H to them. We tallcod a few moments H and then T started back for tho en- Rlne. I had gone about a car length H when the train gave a sudden jerk which notified me that the fireman Hl was trvlng to go ahead. I knew that H he would not do this unless it was un H dor pressure aud I guessed that the H robbois wore applying the pressure. H Straining at the set brakes, the train Hj moved slowly ahead for a few feet H mid then came to a full stop again, f H continued on toward the engine and. H when 1 reached it, started to climb H Into the cab m "Hero was my first ren oncounter with the train robbers. Two 51ms wero L -, shoved into my face and I was ordered mP' to throw up my hands. Thte was on im- Hi possible order while cllmbine aboard H the engine, so I disregarded It and H rnutlnucd to push myself into tho cab. U The men could see that I was un- U nrmed aud they permitted mo tn U Hl Into the cab I asked them what thoy 1 wanted and they replied that they L wanted tho train run ahead. I told j thorn that they had sot the brakes and h mat mo train could not movo. The H fireman was ordered to uncnuplo the H dynamo car and ono of the rubbers 1 accompanied him to sec that the work H was dono properly. U Robbers In the Cab, 1 HWhen this work was finished, ihp - . ftroman and robber climbed aboard B tho eiiglno again and I was given 01- m dere to go ahead. The tall innn jravo H all tho orders to me and the ehort j man climbedover the tender gate and H stood up on the tank. Tho fireman 1 sat in the cab without saying an;- H thing. I think he was too frightened H , to talk. The baudlt knew all aloiit mU , tho Bwltch at Reese and orderoJ the B fireman to climb down and unlock Wkc it. McLean stated that ho had no key and the robber turned to mo and said, 'You've got a key hand it over.' "I turned over the key to tho fireman fire-man and he unlocked the switch and j backed down the siding, getting onto tho main track agam back of tho coaches. I was told to run the engine back to Ogdon, but I knew that the Limited had been followed by the meat freight and told the till man about the freight. He told me to to go ahead anyway. I refused to back tho engine at any high rate of speed and was threatened with duath about a dozen times. "The robber said to the fireman, '.Get in that seat box and take out a fusee.' Engineer Told Him to Shoot. "This was an order that I might have given myself and which I was very glad to hear tho robber give. At tho same time It marked tho bandit a6 being a man of railroad experience. Only a railroad man would hava givon such an order. "With i fuboe burning burn-ing wo continued toward Ogden until we saw the headlight of the freight train and then I brought the engine to a stop again. Theio was some moro threatening and I was poked with the barrel of the gun. I proceeded pro-ceeded very slowly now anil when I got to a point where I considered It dangerous to go on, I stoppri again and absolutely refused to go any further. fur-ther. "I said, 'If you want to shoot me, shoot I'm not going to run this engine en-gine into that freight engine. J might as well be shot to death as to" be killed In a wreck ' "Just about this time the" flagman ahead Of the freight cam? up to tho engine nnd asked us wh?; was the matter. He told us we would run into in-to the freight engine. Tho robber stuck the gun Into tho flagman's face and asked him If It would make any dlfferencolo him If we did. Ono look down that barrel of death and iho flagman, who was on tne verge of swearing at our cnreleasne?s, turned a complete mental aumwrsjuli and replied in tho most pleasant voice imaginable im-aginable that It was perfoctly all light with him andthatwo could ,go riglit ahead and run Into 'the fjwlghbxen-glue, fjwlghbxen-glue, If we cared to. Flagman Has His Hands Up. "Tho flagman was told to go down by the fence and hold up his hands and this ho did. Hoth tbo bandits climbed off the engine, the mil man sayiug (o his compnnlon, 'Come on 13111, let's get out of Oore.' This v,na tho last I saw of tho rob'wjn "When tho men -were gone 1 told tho flagman that he had better put idown his hands and got en hoard tho engine ud go back to Reese willi mc and he dl.i so. We got back to tho coaches, made Xhc coupling and started start-ed ahead with the train. At Promontory Promon-tory we "shopped and hect word to this city, tolling of the jobbery." 1 Engineer Rowse stated that tho mail train, which was runnnu ahoijf fifty minutes ahead of the Limited, was stopped by tho dangvr signal of the tampered block and It was this train which left the two torpedoes on the track. The englnesr believes that No. 5, mall, express and passenger train, which left Ogden at CIS Monday Mon-day night, was also stopped by the changed signal but of this he is not certain. It Is his opinion that the bandits were after the Limited and that when the other tram enm? 'o a Btop tho robbers seeing that It was tho wrong train permitted It to continue con-tinue without making their presonce known. Description of Men. Tho engineer' gives the following description of tho tall dospevado' "He was about six feet tall aud had a decided stoop in his shoulders. Ho wore a short black overcoat, underneath under-neath which showed dark trousers. He wore a cap, such as railroad men I often wear. Over tho lower par of I his face was tied a blue nandkorchiof. ! He did most of tho talking 011 the cab and appeared to me to be 1)10 leader. I am certain that I would know him for I studied his oyeB for more than fifteen minutes and 1 would know tho contour of his body He had on a new belt of cartridges and In this belt wero two rovolverd. Tho gun ho held had a short barrel and I am not sure whether it was a shotgun or a sawed-off rifle. I believe be-lieve It was a rifle. 1 did not get such a good look at tho short man, but ho was armed the same as tho taller man." Former Sheriff Has Clue. Flagman Hancock of tho held up train of Monday night, visited tho sheriff's office and Identified a photo; graph as an exact picture of "tho man with blue eyes" who played so conspicuous a part in the plundering of the train at Reese. When the picture pic-ture was shown Mr. Hancock, ho stated, without equivocation, that It was an exact counterpart of tho robber's rob-ber's features. The picture is ono taken of a prisoner pris-oner held in the county Jail during tho term of Sheriff Beluap, having been kept by Belnap since that time. The former sheriff states that he was certain at the time of the Oregon Short Line holdup that the man of whom ho has a picture, was one of the robbers, and slnco Hancock identifies iden-tifies th6 photograph as that of the blue-eyed man of Monday night's robbery, rob-bery, he is thoroughly0convlnced that the man he once had In Jail aided in both robberies. x Sheriffs Office Busy. . Sheriff Harrison Is following every clue that comes to his attention In an effort to get some trace of the robbers and bring thorn to justice. Deputy Sheriff Ludwig accompanied bv former Sheriff Belnap, has gone to Warren district to look up certain evidences that may lead to tho trail of tho desperadoes. It is said that certain parties In the outor districts are under suspicion and a car'Tul watch will be kept A resident of that section tells of hearing some ono drive by his place with a buggy at a Httlo after 2 o'clock on tho morning morn-ing of tho holdup, nnd that thov were driving eastward, evidently headed for Five Points. Miss Ella Lund, living an Twentv-elghth Twentv-elghth street telephoned the sheriff's office that yesterday afternoon, at about 1 o'clock, she saw the tall and short men. The short man, she .said carried a small grip and held an overcoat over-coat across his arm. Ho crossed tho river near Twenty-eighth street and entered tho jungles. Shortly aftor ho passed from view, the tall man enmo along aud followed the short man's footsteps Into tho jungles. This clue is bolng followed. Conclude Investigation. The railroad officials practically concluded their Investigation yesterday yester-day afternoon, when all of tho trainmen train-men and engine crew of tho Overland limited arrived in th0 city and spont soveral hours In secret conference with General Superintendent E. C. Manson, Superintendent T. F. Row-lauds Row-lauds and Assistant Superintendent Eaaton. H H. Hancock, the flagman, was probably the most Important witness at the conference. In view of tho prominent part which he took. 11 was Hanciddk whom the bandits forced at the rolnr, of a gun to accompany them thifmgh the coaches and hold the bag Into which they deposited the loot Hancock's Story of Holdup. In the main, Hancock s story tallies with that publlrhcd in these columns, with ho exception that the flagman claims Uie two men boarded the train at the Intermediate semiphore and robbed the passengers as the train moved slowly on to the semiphore at the Reese switch. After leaving tho coaches Hancock was ordered to got down and uncouple the dynamo car from the baggage car, leaving tho former attached to tho engine. en-gine. The flagman claims that ho was unable to disconnect tho steam hoso between tho cars. After several fruitless efforts tho bandit who was covering him with a gun, ordered him out and, stopping in botween tho cars, uncoupled tho hose like a veteran railroad rail-road man, Tho complete list of the passenger on the limited at tho tlmo of the robbery rob-bery was received by the local officials offi-cials late yesterday afternoon and mado public last evening. The only Ogden resident Included In tho list Is Flagman Hancock. He w-as the first person robbed, his gold watch bolng the first article to drop Into thq hag, which ho afterward carried for the train robbers Those Who Were Robbed. ' The list of passengers and trainmen train-men Is as follows- F C. Havens, Union Savings hank building, Oakland, Cal., los& $11. F. E Cathnrln, C2 Pacific bnlldlng, San Francisco: no loss, no damage. L. D Waddell, Palace hotel, Sari Francisco; loss 51 o. Miss E. L. Edlin, 2123 Evergreen avenue, Chicago; no loss, no damage. J A. Seymour and wife, -1352 Lake avenue. Chicago; loss $S5 and watch; no damage. W. K. Naylor, wife and child, Evans; ton, III., loss $47 and watch; no damage ' A E. Kennard and wife. 1707 K ,St., Lincoln, Neb ; loss 51100.50 in cash and drafts and diamond ring. Miss Cecil Darraugh, 2LC East Second Sec-ond street, Oklahoma City; loss 530 and diamond stone Joseph Snce, S259 Prairie avenue, Chicago; loss $227.50 In cash, signet ring, watch and chain. A. Stock, 3105 Jackson St, San Francisco, no loss and no damage. W. T. Roid, Bellmont, Cal., loss $5 F. E Alderson, Lay ton avenue, Los Angeles; no loss, no damage. F. Bauhard, Memphis, Tenn loss 11. Miss Madallno Saurez. 213 Ilavino St., Reno, Nev ; no loss. MI6S Hazel Clasklns, Rono, Nov.; loss 10, diamond ring and cameo ring. Miss Caroline Mllbuni, 1011 Lincoln St., Denver; loss $G 50 cash, gold purso, with stono settings, valued at $100; gold bracelet and threo keys. Mrs. John Miller, 1157 Pearl St., Denver; loss $12 cash. Miss Maude Powor, Lcwiston Mont., loss $2 cash. MIbs Florence Hockenhuer, Munclo, Ind ; loss $100 cash, gold watch, small diamond ring and threo plain rings. L. Hellbramur, 23-1 West 122d St., New York; loss gold watch. W Bumstad, 10701 Amos street, Cleveland, Ohio; loss $95 cash Mrs. Mary p. Smith, 717 Hawthorn, Hollywood, Cal.! loss diamond ring, valued at $300. H. G Chatfleld and wife, 203 West Fifty-fourth St,, New York; loss 150 cash. T. P. Alexander, Mansfield, Ohio; loss $41 cash and gold watch. 'W. A. Middleton, train conductor, Ogden; loss $2 caBh and gold watch J. P Plunkot, Pullman conductor Chicago; loss. $95 cash and gold watch. Robert E Moffett, dining-car conductor, con-ductor, San Francisco; loss gold watch and ring. II. H Hancock, flagman, Ogden-loss Ogden-loss gold watch. ' N. Cross, brakeman; no los3. P. M. Wittman. observation car porter, San Francisco, lo3S ?30 ensh. From the amount of losses shown In tho above list it is very apparent that the total amount of loot securod by the train robbers wjll exceed $3,-000. $3,-000. Of this amount almost $2,000 was in cash and drafts. Cowardly and Amateurlcli, Detective James Pender, speaking of the train robbery tonight, characterized charac-terized the bandits as cowardly and amateurish The detectlvo does not believe that they arc crooks accustomed accus-tomed to turning big tricks,- but says 11 It Is more probable that they aro men who have been used to holding up pedestrians. "The fact that they arc amateurs In train-robbing," said the detective, "Is evidenced by tho fact that thoy took such long chances with so little t prospects of returns. Crooks of experience expe-rience in this Uno of work would hardly hard-ly take the chances of robbing a train ("hat carried only passengers. An express ex-press train would yield much moro booty and the hazard would not be so great Took Desperate Chnncec. "Any criminal of experience would ! know that tho Job ot holding: "l an o- I press train wmild bo far easier, thnn that of holding up a pas?enger train aud the presnect of gaining Indefinitely Indefinite-ly greater. In the robbery of Monday night tho men took the most desperate desper-ate chances possible for only petit larconv returns. "I sny the mon wore cowardly because be-cause thev struck womon without any provocation Professional train robbers rob-bers are generally chivalrous enough I not to strike womn passengers Then, tho robborv of the two girls on the road to Warren marks tho mon as cowardly and as crooks of the petty sort. This action more than any other places tho brand of common street holdup men upon the robbers of the Overland limited. Displayed Recklessness. "While the irsn displayed a great deal of recklessness In their crime I do not consider that they displayed any bravery not even criminal bravery brav-ery Tho undoubtedly had an Insido knowledge of railroading. Most crooks of tho cheaper sort have such I knowledge. "That the men arc etlll at liberty I Is moro a matter of luck than cleverness clever-ness on their part. Then no doubt I roturned to this cltv and once here I and In different costumes It Is easy to understand how difficult It is for I tho police to spot them. Wo have no definite clew to work on, and must, therefore, work blindly and take I chances of finding some ovldenco that will help us In locating the robbers." |