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Show YOUTHFUL DESPERADOES TRY TO STOP A TRAIN With Target Rifle Tlicy Attempt a Hold-Up in Regulation Regu-lation Diamond Dick Fashion. . FRANKLIN, Ind., March 6. Jimmy Campbell, 11 year3 old; John Logan, 10, and Arthur Jordan, conceived a plan to "hold up" and terrorize the crew and passengers of . the northbound passenger passen-ger train on the Louisville division of the Pennsylvania lines. ' They had read Jesse James and Diamond Dia-mond Dick until their brains seethed Injuring no one. Conductor Wren Jumped off his train and pursued the youthful desperadoes. He caught them and took their names, after which he returned to his train and reported the "hold up" at the station. After their release by the conductor the boys continued their flight, but they were overtaken at Whiteland by the father of Arthur Jordan' and were compelled com-pelled to return home. with activity. Logan is a colored boy. When the train began slowing down, Just north of the Junction with the Big Four railway, the engineer heard a child's voice shouting something which he could not understand,' and as he glanced out of the cab window, he saw one of the youthful desperadoes raise a target rifle and shoot. The bullet passed over the engine. ' The engineer threw on the brakes to stop for the crossing, by which time the train had advanced until t,he boys were opposite the coaches. Conductor Wren, who was on the rear ,platform of the first coach, heard a command to stop, and then a second shot was fired, the bullet crashing through a window Into the coach, but |