Show I ENGINEER FRUSTRATES A ROBBERY I Southern Pacific Express Trail Boarded By Three Masked Men t Jen 1 USES A REVOLVER WITH FATAL EFFECT Jj Jj The Nerve of an Engineer Saves 1 the Treasure 1 11vT One Robber I Killed Outright Pos ae in Pursuit IIicl the Outlaw Beeni Successful n Rich Haul Would Have Been TiEade T3ie Scene of the Holdirp Wn at D Point Near Were Brady Did His Successful Work SACRAMENTO Cal Sept E Tnti Southern Pacific easE bound overland express was bare at Swingles station sta-tion nine miles west of Sacramento tonight by three masked men who commanded the engineer ad fireman to throw up their hands The engineer wag then instructed to slow down near a trestle a few miles dint and the 1 fireman was taken back to uncouple the baggage and express cars from the passenger coaches When the robber and fireman reached the platforms of the first passenger coach the passengers passen-gers crowded to the door to see what was the matter and the bandit fired a few shots upward through the door to frighten them The noise of the shooting 1 shoot-ing attracted the attention of the robbers rob-bers who were guarding the engineer They turned their backs for an instant giving the engineer time to grasp his revolver and use it One robber received re-ceived two shots in the bacK and lI d ceive wo s o s n te bak an rolled from the tender to the ground ded The second outlaw saw that a fight was on and immediately jumped and fled ito the darkness The robber with the fireman i1 charge remained o the coach platform until the train reached Sacramento river bridge when he jumped jump-ed and disappeared The Oregon express which followed the overland picked up a brakeman of the latter train who had been lefd at the scene of the holdup The brakeman brake-man reports that one robber lies dead by the ed of the track and that the other who jumped a the time of the shooting has disappeared A posse i now searching for the bandits Had the robbers been successful they would have made 3 rich haul The scene of the holdup Is at a point near the spot where Bandits Brady and Browning looted the express of 553000 in gold taken from the WellsFargo safe on the night of October 10 1891 |