| Show ROBBERS BLOODY WORK They Kill a Railway Engineer rind Wound a Passenger flat all Hrm F91tireir 0 14 tn of the JBhoonanla vrUe Trust Held Up mid Iluhlicd San Francisco April 20Th Santa re Pacific westbound parsenger train win In M up I nt Oro aranl Sit mile east of mojave at 3 oclock this mom Ing Engineer Gifford wan hilled and I passenger Injured Los Angeles Cal A Ill 11 21 > The Santa 1 > overland No 1 vvc mlhoord 1 VOB held up at the Mojave river bridge Iwo miles west of Oro Grande in San Bernardino county nt iJO thli torn Ing Engineer alffoM was klinl hon h-on of tin robbeis VQ wis Marta Ify wounded by Gifford in an exchange 01 shot The robbers nagged the train nt the approach to the bridge nnc boarding the engine took the eIlneer and fmmnO back to the express car and endeavored to detach It from the Ort passenger coach hut could not uncouple It They succeeded In cutting cut-ting off the mall car and engine how over and compelled the engineer to 1 nil these up to the sitting Here they rte the mail car find secured the registered mall I They then backed down to the trolls again and werv proceeding to the express cur when Engineer Clifford opened Ire on them with a revolver IIo fatallj wounded one of the robbers Paul Jones of Oro Grande but the other escaped after hooting Clifford with a charge of buckshot Clifford died at once Ilxpress Mcs enger Molt remained on the rear platform of the express car The tram with the body of the engineer proceeded I pro-ceeded to this city Sheriff Holcomh 10n n len Or San Bernardino arrived at th edFn 6 oclock thin morning and racked thft other robber to Cum robberblu lings ranch sea Into the hills Head He-ad a horse Ilia Identity Is I unknown The robbers got nothing but the leg littered mall Loa Angeles April 2OIt 1s stated I Ir MOlt fired the shot which killed Engineer Gifford and wounded one ot the robbers He fired tit the men as thy approached the car believing them both to ba robbers The train ulllclals however tell a different storyi |
