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Show BB A TftAIH H Passengers In Sleepers LLH 1 H, jobbery Occurs on Diamond ' Special, on Illinois Cen- j tral Road. l H, iwo Attempt Hade to Loot Mail 'j or Express Cars 9 1000 H . Secured. II' t CHICAGO, Aug. 2. Four higlrway- I men, nil heavily armed and two of I ' them wearing masks, held up the pas- ncngers on the IlllnolH Central Chlcago- R St. LouIh express train No. 1, known as D the "Diamond special" as It neared H Matteson Inst night. The robbors got I1 nil the money and valuables carried by I the thirty passengers In the two Pull- I man sleeping cars, stopped the train ' and escaped In the darkness. The forwnrd sleeper was entered first, 1 the occupants aroused and with noth- ing on but their night clothes were marched back to the Pullman car be- I hind. Two of the passengers who were 9 slow In responding to the command of J the robbers were hit on their heads I with a hatchet and one was seriously Injured. I Passengers Lined Up. j When the passengers In the two cara J had been lined up In the rear Pullman jl two of the robbers stood guard, one at I each end of the car with drawn re volvers. The third, who Is supposed to have been the leader, ordered the passengers pas-sengers who had been compelled to bring along their clothos from the first car to throw the garmenta on the floor of the car. The passengers In the rear car were then commanded to return to their berths and deposit their clothes In the same heap. Filed Garments on Floor. Then the leader with the utmost coolness began to search the clothing for valuables. "When he had finished 1 this search he made a close examina tion of the passengers for any money that they might have secreted. When the search had been completed all the ,' booty was placed In a flour sack and the three robbers Joined their compan-, compan-, Ion who had stood guard In the vesti bule of the train. Pulling the bell rope, l the signal to the engineer to stop was given and when the speed of the train I had slackened sufllclcntly the robbers, after having locked the aoors of the , ' car, Jumped oft and fled in the dark- ( ness. Worked Systematically. So systematic was the work of the robbers, and with so little confusion. I 1 that the train crew was unaware of , what was going on. It was not until 1 the engineer, In response to the signal brought his train to a stop and seeing ! , j nothing of the remainder of the crew walked back to the rear of the train to I ascertain what was the matter, that he j learned of the robbery. No attempt was made to rob the mall or express cars. The robbers secured more than i 31000 In money and valuables. I, Police Are Notified. 1 1 G. H. Gross, superintendent of tolo- I graph of the Illinois Central, who was one of the men robbed, left the train ' at Kankakee and notified the Illinois I Central detectives in Chicago. The lat- ' ter notified the central police, and de tectives were sent out on a train to oegln a search for the robbers. Superintendent's Story. 1 Superintendent Gros&'s story, made at Kankakee, was as -follows: "The men I must have boarded the train at Har vey, for we were- but a few miles out , when they appeared nt the door of the last Piillman and, cursing the brake-I brake-I i man and porter, ordered them into the I smoking' compartment. They went through the car and ordered all the J men out. Thought It a Joke. "At first the men seemed to think the ; affair a Joke and did not hasten. One ' of .the bandits then fired Into a berth whose occupant was slower than the I rest. He came pcrambllng out In a hurry and the rest responded more read-ily read-ily to the orders after that, Boy Struck With Hatchet. ( "One other passenger, a boy about IS f years old, was partly awake, and the ' , shot Etartled him. He, too, was slow, ; and when a bandit told him to get Into the aisle the robber struck him with a I i hatchet. He was cut severely. I 1 Searched the Men. , "They drove all the men to Uie smok- I lng compartment, and there two of them searched us while the others trtood gunrd In the doors They took $100 from ' me and $300 from a man near me. I guettJ those were the largest Individual 1 amounts they obtained. They searched , ) the women who were yet awake, but did not Bother thoee who were In the ' berths where the curtains were drawn. , In the second Pullman there were only five or six passengers, and they had an I experience like the rest of uh." j Carried Many Passengers. The train, which left Chicago at 9:27 I o'clock, carried many passengers for the St. Louis fair, and all remained on i the train despite their experience. |