Show ONE WA KILLED I HOLD UP CAUSES A TRAGEDY IN i CALIFOUMV i I I j I Went Tlirousrh the Train and y huIeI I the PnNMcji crs Dump Their Val I tialilcs Into an Improvised Ilag i I j Sacramento March 30The north I I bound express was held up by two men four miles north of Wheatland 1 about 2 oclock this morning Failing j to secure anything in the express car the robbers went hack and started to I rob the passengers in the coach and smoker Sheriff Bogard of Tckama county was on the train and opened I fire on the robbers In the smoker I killing one and was killed himself by I another robber Several passengers were robbed The dead bodies were j turned over to the coroner at Marys I villa I was evidently the intention of the robbers to escape on bicycles The body of Sheriff Bogard and that of the dead robber were taken to ftlarysvillc where it was discovered the robber was attired in a full and complete bicycle suit over which he had drawn a pair of overalls In the overalls he had improvised pockets made nf toweling in which were two big pistols The dead robber is known in the vicinity of Marysville where foe had eaten j several meals at a restaurant the past two weeks He is over six feet tall I and weighs over two hundred pounds i Northcote the fireman has two bullets bul-lets in his body and may die The first intimation the engineer and fireman had of the presence of robbers rob-bers on the train was when they climbed over from the blind baggage I car and commanded at the point of a pistol that the train be stopped The brakes were applied Then the robbers I rob-bers caused the engineer and fireman to jump from the Jgneer and with another i I an-other robber who appeared to come I from a hidIng nlaoe in the roadway compelled the fireman to request that J the express car be opened This was j i done but the robbers did not find any thing of value as the safe combination was not in the hands of the messen gers The robbers carried a bag made from an old pair of overalls As they went through the first car and smoker they made the passengers put thelt coin and valuables into I the fireman being the custodian and shield behind which the robbers stood The colored porter of the tourist sleeper knowing that Sheriff Bogard was in a berth called mm That heroic man was in his shoes and trousers in a minute and armed with a revolver He crossed ithe platform between the sleeper and the day coach As he entered the latter at the south door the robbers came in at the north The sheriff fired His fred bullet Iropped the man nearest him but the second failed to reach its target i > tar-get One of the robbers must have seen Bogard enter and one jumped down and running along the side of 1 the car entered and snot him from i the rear The fatal wouna is in the I back just below the kidneys Wher the robber was shot he exclaimed Im done for The other asked Are you killed Bill and thereupon he hastily left the car telling the now thoroughly frightened trainmen and passengers not to follow The dead robber has been identified by a night clerk at the United States hotel at Marysvllle = I |