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Show WON PACIFIC LIMITED LOOTED BY LONE BANDIT PASSENGERS POINTJF CM Thief Gets $250, but Is Wounded by Shots Fired From the Train as He Takes Leave. United States Cavalry on the Trail of Fugitive, Fugi-tive, Who Is Believed to Be Escaped Convict. t'llKYKNNK, Wyo., Nov. Is. A lone bandit, believed to be William Carlisle notorious train robber and Escaped convict, con-vict, tonight boarded westbound I'nion Pacific train No. 19. the Los Angeles limited, robbed passengers of a tourist sleeper of money and vuluables aud escaped es-caped amid 11 shower of bullets from train guards as the train slowed down near Medicine Bow. Wyo. A snecial 'lain ti route fioui iTns carrying a posse to Medicine Bow was reported to have been robbed of three rifles and a quantity of ammunition ammuni-tion nbn: Medicine Bow when the posse I had left the train to search the country for Carlisle'. The report said Carlisle is believed to have replenished his am- munition. l.ale tonight he was leing hunted by j posses from Medicine Bow, Rock River, I Saratoga and Wheatland, und a special train is carrying a troop of cavulry from Fort D. A. Russell, near here, together with an armed posse under the direction of W. J. McCleinent. chief of detectives I for the railroad. The bandit is said to be wounded and it is believed his cap-1 cap-1 ture is a certainty. FUSILLADE OF SHOTS FOLLOW FUGITIVE. The bandit boarded the Los Angeles Limited at Rock River. After the train ; had left Hock Kivcr, he entered the tourist ear, relieving passengers of their ! valuables at the point of a gun. Armed I guards, placed on the train alter rail- road officials learned of Carlisle's es-i es-i cape from the state prison at Rawlins, were attracted to the ear just as the train was nearing Medicine Bow and I opened fire as the bandit jumped from i the platform. The train was traveling about twenty miles an hour and a dozen shots were fired as the bandit rolled down the embankment. em-bankment. The train was stopped and the guards, accompanied by United States Marshal Don 1 Hudson, who was a passenger, returned to the place where the bandit had jumped. Blood was I found on the revolver which the bandit I had dropped and it was believed he was I wounded. His hat was found and is j said to answer descriptions of the hat j Carlisle stole from a sheep herder yes-I yes-I terday. FOSSE HUNTS WHILE TRAIN IS HELD UP. While the robbery was being perpetrated, perpe-trated, another armed posse was searching the red desert near Wamsutter. Wyo., for Carlisle, where he was last seen following fol-lowing his escape Saturday from the state prison. Carlisle is believed to have doubled on his tracks, caught an east-bound east-bound train early 1 today, and to have passed through Wamsutter as the, posse was detraining for the expedition Into the desert. The posse from Saratoga, which Js about thirty miles southwest of the scene of the robbery, will endeavor to prevent the bandit's escape to the Colorado mountains. moun-tains. The posse from Wheatland will scour the country to the north of that place for about sixty miles, where Carlisle hid out for three exks following one of his train robberies In 1916. i Carlisle is one of the most daring bandits ban-dits in the state's history. At one time I he told Union Pacific officials in a letter t he would roh a certain train, and did so 1 despite precautions. Two of his train I robberies were staged within five days. He is said never to have used his revolver revol-ver except to frighten people, and to have shown unusual consideration for women and children. WOMAN SCREAMS; BANDIT GETS $250. ! RAWLINS, "Wyo.. Nov. 18. The bandit j who held up Union Pacific tra in No. 19 tonight apparently was badly wounded, acco rdlng to an a ccou nt of t he robbery ' told here by passengers. The train plat-1 plat-1 form from which lie leaped was covered I with blood. A passenger fired at the ! 1. audit just before he left the train, it is (Continued ou Page 4, Column 1.) PASSENGERS ROBBED AT" POINT OF GUN (Continued From Page One.) said, and other shots were fired Into the darkness. Armed with a revolver and carrying a rifle slung over his shoulder, and a shotgun, the bandit entered the tourist coach by breaking a vestibule window, according to Machinist's Mate Elkins, oho of the passengers. Elkins scid he was in the smoker when . the bandit entered the car, firing a shot through the roof and cal. ing to the passengers pas-sengers to hold up their hands. The bandit had cut his hands in smashing the window. Elkins said he heard a woman &cream, and then the woman ran ir.to the smoker and told him there was trouble When ho entered the car he was greeted by the command. "Hold up your hands." Elkins was ordered to sit down "and behave." be-have." Then the bandit added. "I am not robbing old men, women and children, soldiers or saiiors.'' The bandit got $250, according to reports. re-ports. After leaving the car, Elkins said, the bandit pulled the cord and waited for the train, to stop. As he stood In the vestibule a passenger crept from the smoker and fired point-blank at the bandit. A quantity quan-tity of blood was found on the vestibule floor. Several shots were fired at him as he made his escape. Elkins said h was satisfied the bandit was badly hurt. OMAHA, Neb , Nov. 18. "That mm l-i a bird," declared Oenernl Manager W. M. Jeffers of the Union Pacific, upon learning learn-ing of Carlisle's latent exploit. All I can say in self-defense is that f outguessed him and had a guard on the train anyhow. any-how. The guard was a Wyoming cowboy cow-boy named Hampton, and I guess he put up a good fight." Train No. 19, the Pacific Tvlmlf'd. Wt Omaha after midnight Tuesday morning for the west. |