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Show PLUCK! BIKEMI . KILLS M BANDIT Shasta Limited on Southern . Pacific Held Up j'One Robber-Escapes With Mail: By International, News. Service. JJEDDTNG.'Cal.', Nov. S. The Shasta limited, north bound, was. hold. irp at. Delta, thirty-fivc- milos north of Red ding, at .S:30 this evening bv "three masked bandits. One of the bandits was killed- by a brakemau. The other two escaped with the registered mail. The train slopped for wator and had moved J 00 yards uorth.when tho locomotive loco-motive hit a torpedo. The engineer Uenrv Wcntz, (brought- the train to a stop. As ho did so a masked robber climbed over the tender with a revolver in his hand aufl ordered him not to turn a wheel. Atthe samo time another masked bandit was afwork in the mail car, holding up the two mail clerks and rifling tho registered mail. Conductor Dickie was in charge of the train. Tho head brakoman, Tom San ford, ran 100 yard3 ' west t o John lorton 's . saloon asked for a revolver. The proprietor save him a loaded weapon. wea-pon. San ford ra across to the railroad. Ho was covered by dnrknep3 but he saw tho robbor by tho light of tho engine and flrod. The bandit tumbled out of tho cab dead. All -this timo no one realized rhat a robbery was going on in the mail car. The craek of the revolver that slew the .bandit warned his comrade in tho mail car that the holdup was discovered, discov-ered, lie grabbed up the registered Mini I, jumped out of the side door and disappeared. Passengers on the train were not disturbed dis-turbed and did not know of tho event until thoy were told about it by members mem-bers of the train crew, ' The mail clerks were so rattled that thoy could give no idoa of tho amount of mail taken, further than that every sack of registered matter was rifled. The dead (bandit was laid out be-Iweon' be-Iweon' the tracks and the train went on, having been delayed only half an hour, No identification has been made. He was about 20 or 2S years old. |