| Show GRANDE TRAIN ROBBED ic l alt Lake ir Cash Taken aken 1 REGISTERED ERED MAIL LOOT ED EDt EDI I t Pair of Bandits Get A Away way I After Daring Darlng Escapade Almost Within Denver Den- Den Deni Denver i ir ver City Limits 9 I Eleven registered mail packages from Salt Sat Lake were stolen by robbers who held up a Denver Deliver Rio Grande rande passenger passenger passenger pas pas- train early eary this morning near Denver None ISTone of the packages contained any large sums of Ino money ey however Several Sc of them were yere fourth class mail carrying only mer mer- chandise It was as believed at first that a package containing contain- contain Salt Lake bank in the list but I II lug ing ng a big sum sum from a was as I the thc local postoffice authorities say this is not so I I. I The Deseret National bank sent a package containing to Denver by registered mail but hut the postoffice Authorities say this tins package went ent over the Union Pacific It t was registered at the Salt Lake postoffice Thursday Afternoon at 4 0 clock DENVER Feb 13 Almost Almost within the Ery ty limits of Denver at what is known B IS Military Junction two masked at this morning stopped the the westbound Denver Rio Grande Grander rande r train No 4 known as the At- At p lactic express Amid a fusillade of re- re i bots from one of the robbers other forced tho the mall mail clerk to open i L i door of his car r. r Tho robber then coolly searched every overy tC of registered mail matI in the car threw throw the packages ho he desired into a sack and off At the points of revolvers the e engineer fireman reman mail and baggage tt clerks derks were marched up tho the track a distance then told to got back to their train bm while the robbers then pared with their booty How much they secured is not known but it is believed be be- to amount to several thousand dollar dollars That they were cro thoroughly familiar with the railway postal business seemed evident as S the robber in the mail car threw aside side package e after package after examining them carefully I Armed forces of or de deputies squads of s soldiers from Fort Logan and ands s are searching tho the country around Fort Lo Logan an and ani tho the foothills footh in m search of the t two o bandits but no trace of them has Wi been found A careful search is isaho f aho being made in Denver as the robb robbery rob- rob b bery rJ was wag only ei eight ht miles distant from the b heart art of the tho city and the rob robbers ers ersI ma nav nar have ha made their way here I t The e train which was several hours behInd time was running at a a. speed of oft t l k nearly earlY forty miles an hour when sud- sud f r J En Engineer neef Gunn heard beard a voice r f behind him Looking around ho found i the toe muzzle of an automatic revolver pok poked d into rito his face Fir Fireman man Lessi Lessig also found ono one with with- ma 1113 a few inches of his cheek I Rudy Ready With Threats Slam on tho the air and stop top this train n came the order U Be Be quick ir TJi- TJi it or ne well we'll ll blow blowout out your brains brain V- V This u came from tho robber attending i to te the Ibe en engineer ineer Ho lio was a a. heavy set n with rith red hair and wearing a red I the collar of which was vas pulled over the lower part of his face faco v His ls revolver rc was jammed against EJ En En- 5 Gaun's face a as the latter hesItated hesi- hesi tat a Kf The train rau was ras brought to a sudden udd n top a short hort stance of the little lit lit- I Kirit tle station tation which was as clo closed cd for tho the night Non you jou fellows get off ofT this thia en- en Zinc as q quick ick as you can cnn command command- commanded ed the red ed haired robber Dont run or make trouble If you do this auto auto- KIM do du business s. s tv ty Gunn r and Lessig obeyed with ith Covered b by the tSe train robbers r they Yore marched t to tho mail car next neat to e en ne Call to Man Mail Clerks Call tell to th the f fell in the tho mail car them to open tho the door and you your or r i i H-i-H H H ft- ft rt 1 t 1 GIRL r t r NEW EW YORK Feb After T attempts at suicide 4 z Ma of cx- cx x end ended d her lifo ifo i r aho found by his ga gas Mr rr t Daughter lying r r un di died ci on the bed and she 1 within hour nn 1 t ncy P re resulting Citing ur from 4 O v js is to have c r her act 4 f Wahle 1 17 was old veers 4 1 and Jived at Pelham N. N Y w rJ-i- rJ f j I 7 r r tell them shoot f too not to again commanded the red haired man Engineer Gunn Guna did so The Tho mail car ear door was opened An instant later the 8 stillness s of the night was broken by a fusillade e of shots fired b by the tho holdups in all 11 directions If an any passengers had intended to come out to see about things they did not do so 80 after the firing began Mail Clerks Coulter and were ordered to come out They obeyed instanter in- in in- in and were cro up with the tho en en- and fireman Taking Taylor Talor with him the ted haired man then entered d tho the ma mail J car His companion a short hort built fellow wearing a a. black mask was outside outside out out- side sid to guide the thc other trainmen Occasionally Oc ho fired a shot along the side of the train I Knows Know His Ris Va Way Inside tho the mail car the red reel haired man got Jot busy Apparently he knew cx- cx where the tho registered mail is kept and this he went for He lie carefully examined examined ex ex- ex- ex every e package took those he wanted and threw them into a sack and then ordering Taylor to walk ahead of II him jumped from the car 4 4 All told the tho robber took 4 I ei eighteen packages es of registered 4 4 r mail three throe of which are known 4 t r as as' as inner packages 4 t Now KoW then tIleD boys said paid tho the red heared ro robber ber to to o tho the trainmen walk walk along ahead of us like nice thee fellows follows They did BO so After Alter walking a short distance up the track the robbers commanded com corn the trainmen to return As Gunn and Lessig climbed on board the cn engine inc tho bandits ran in front shot out the headlight ht then disappeared running in tho direction of Tort Port Logan Information Brought Quickly Gunn made a a. record run to the thc union depot where he reported the robbery and within a few fow minutes officers in automobiles au au- au- au were hurrying to the scene Fort Logan was also alBo notified and j posses started out from the army post Littleton Little Little- ton and Petersburg Complete descriptions of the robbers were furnished thorn them but hut up to 11 1130 30 this mornin morning no trace of the robbers had bad been found Horse Also Stolen The only clue discovered so far is that a horse e and bus buggy were ere stolen from a farmer farmer- in tho the neighborhood of tho the holdup but whether thi this was done dono by the tho robbers themselves or by accomplices accomplices ac ae ac- ac has not been determined Estimates of the amount secured by the robbers ar vary and information on this point is ia very ery meager Both clerks agree that only re registered mail mal was I taken but hut they have no io idea of ot the value of it I One of tho the packages taken IK illi is said to have been a n package of currency froma from a Salt Lake City bank and this amount i is estimated at from 1000 to Tho The local authorities however say that at present they do ClO not know how bow much there wn was in this package Outside of this money no estimate te can bo be formed at present of the amount of boot boot- secured |
