Show y Amounting to and Escape With 1000 After Locking Up Guards Sheriff Organizes Posse and Starts in Pursuit But Robbers Have Twelve Hours for Eighty Miles 1 Well Settled Country Special to The 11 Wyo Aug t are now in of the bandits who Ex Agent D i and George at s the depot in this town of amounting 10 at a ni to today day Sheriff P iL James by Deputy Sheriff John Jones a pose of seven men all armed and upon the trail of the robbers It Is known that they started out the ig Pin country Hole probably ably Intending to take refuge in which bai been a for train rob bern and The bandits known to have been well and they had several tart of the bout eighty MIles of the route to the Hole lieu a country and Sheriff James ad his posse are to overhaul them before they reach the boundary of this district they succeed a gun gunfight fight will probably result A number of railroad caine here from today to Leip or organize the pursuit of the robbers Special to Th Herald Kemmerer Aug devel developed early today that the bandits who held up robbed Ben Harding the express agent and George Merritt the guard at a in here Just after Oregon Short Line train No had pulled out got away with but In their haste to leave with their booty dropped a bundle of currency con taming The money taken was a part of 14 consIgned to the Union Pacific Coal company from Cheyenne to meet the semimonthly payroll of the land mInes It looks as though the robbery was committed b familiar with the business of the Pacific Express at thia place They bad evidently noade them themselves selves acquainted with the fact that a large sum of money was to arrive on onNo No 5 and they made their preparations to get the money They went about work deliberately and had it not been for bee seared mit pin suit just alter the 1 rl would hI much more u show their th of the of the the IiI It is not that they ie ny ut thu ti lost i ALt their hurried Robbery Was Committed train on fl gon Line arrived ii Kimerer at a three package of 1 ing iii silver and O in pa money and the other ani In transferred fr j the x press ar t a truck as astrain train pulled out ien agent and George tue started to whee tr ih depot ottlee Hardin sad hold of ih handles of the truth v hUe was wasat at the rear pushing Just rn hers three in the scene stepping out he alongside the depot Thy i ithe the men to threw up their hands Mr ritt endeavored to draw his gun lii before he could do o cne of the dUn struck him on ft I butt end of a revolver hm the station Merritt Just before lie was down an I Switchmen Naon and lark who r rin in the yard iVan t his lii covered them amid wit 1 their guns and Into the depot or station lock the door and quiet 1 I thirty minutes under of shot The bandits then the park ages of money and rait p th tU the and an aliCy lii th rear of tin mounted their hoses and away Hardin followed on foot a found the two in currency they had tn their horses nhen they went ti th depot to commit the robbery |