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Show ROBBERS TACKLE WRONG TRAIN Express on Parallel Line Carried $350,000 in Coin; No Trace Found of the Bandits. ' i LEADVTLLE, Colo., Oct. 18. It is the opinion of the local authorities that the attempted robbery of train No. 5 oa the Denver & Bio Grande railroad near Kildare was the. work of expert . train robbers,, and that the men who held up the engineer and fireman were the same who cracked the safe about a week ago at Hot Sulphur Springs. It is also established that the two men had confederates near the scene of the hold-up, but that in the darkness the latter were missed. All day long several posses of armed deputies, scoured the hills ia the vicinity vicin-ity of the hold-up, but found no trace of the bandits. Last Monday train No. 5 on the Colorado Colo-rado Midland, which parallels the Bio Grande, carried $350,000 in specie for Wells-Fargo Express compan-. but it was guarded by a heavily armed force of ten men. |