Salt Lake Herald | 1899-01-19 | Page 4 | Train-Wreckers Ill Idaho

TRAINWRECKERS IN IDAHO The highwayman is less an enemy to society than is the murderer and the trainrobber is not so dangerous as the trainw recker The thief is usually content with his plunder He takes that which may be regained or replaced But the wrecker I plans wholesale murder He Is worse than the ordinary assassin who may be I suffering from wrong real or imaginary imagin-ary or beside himself with anger or acting In defense of life or honor Indiscriminate murder like a savage massacre of helpless babes and women wo-men is the crime of the trainwrecker Every once in a while the wires relate a story of the attempted or successful ditching of a train Not far from Mountain Home Ida I