Show TRAIN RUBBER RO KILLED ACT Brave Express Messenger foils Attempt at Holdup Hold up DRIVEN CAR CARBY BY DYNAMITE f t He H Shoots One Bandit Dead and Chases Other Away way 1 r Ia la Oct 3 Two men menhem held hem up UD the passenger train on the Burlington Bu lington road three miles south of this city at Express Charles Baxter shot and killed one of the robbers and his body pow now lies in the morgie in this city He was about six feet taU tall pow pew powerfully built apparently about 45 years of or age and had black hair and mus mustache mustache tache ta L f The two men men boarded the tra the Pacific transfer and cl ci clover clover over the tender just as the train crossing the Mosquito creek brit briL Engineer Donnelly and Frank fireman who were in charge of the I engine were ordered to slow up UD as Bos s I soon as the train had crossed the I bridge While the man afterward kill I pd rd d held a revolver on the engine crew his companion went back and cut off the baggage and mail cars leaving the day coaches and sleepers standing on the main line Acting under orders the engineer I pulled the train half a mile down doun the track where a it stop was made Here the robbers approached the express J I Icar car and ordered Messenger Baxter to i open the door He refused to do so soUnder soUnder soUnder Under compulsion Engineer Donnelly attached a stick of dynamite to the side door of the car and blew It open Messenger Makes Escape In the meantime Messenger essen er Baxter seized his gun guit and escaped from the thedoor thedoor thedoor door on the opposite O side of the e car ear carAs tho thoe As i soon as the door was as one I of the robbers entered the car while hile his companion com anion marched the engineer I and fireman back to the engine Baxter crept around in front of the engine and seeing the robber standing I gard over oyer the engine crew fired one shot killing him instantly As soon as j the shot was heard the he robber in the I I Icar car jumped to the ground and fled fied i I through a corn field I Ion The dead man was w s picked up placed on board and the train backed into this city The body was searched but noth neth nothing nothing ing was found on it by which ich it could be identified I The dead robber was dressed in a I neat suit of black clothes over oer which overalls and jumper had bad been drawn In his pockets Dockets was found about 15 in money and a watch atch and chain Con Conductor j ductor William McGrew who was Va in I charge of the train thinks the dead deadman deadman man is one George of St Joseph I The robber who escaped was larger larser and taller than the dead deat man being beins bein I apparently above six feet in height Both men were masked and both lOre overalls and jumpers I The door of the express car was bad badly badly badly ly shattered by the explosion of dyna dynamite dynamite mite The robber inside the car was pre preparing preparing preparing paring to blow the sate safe at the time his companion was killed He ceased operations at once and an anno I no damage was stas done to the contents of the car nor was anything taken After Atter 1 putting on a new express car and transferring the freight the train pro proceeded i I to Kansas City r I I |