Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-07-12 | Page 1 | Police Use Autos and Capture Four Would - be Robbers

POLICE USE AUTOS AND AND CAPTURE FOUR WOULD BE ROBBERS NEW lIEW YORK July 12 A. A A daring at attempt attempt attempt at- at tempt to hold up and rob a a. freight train on the Pennsylvania road at Rahway N N. 3 J. J yesterday frustrated n as frustrated by Engineer William R. R Lawrence The Tho would would-be robbers robbers rob bers four negroes were captured after an automobile chase The freight train was approaching Rahway when the engineer saw a signal to stop Wh When n he did so 80 he was surprised to see four negroes Jump from behind a clump of bushes and climb cUmb on board One of the e men boarded the e engine while i the theother theother f eTh other three r got on t the t train The Tho negro e on the engine ordered that one car ear be uncoupled from the train and left behind to be ransacked by them He threatened that there would be trouble if tho the order was not complied compiled with I w would Realizing 1 li be along I that n In a a few fast minutes express the train engineer engineer en en- er grasped the throttle and set the train going at full fulI speed while the negro looked on In amazement Twice the men endeavored to to Jump from the train but fe fear r of being dashed to death prevented them theme and they hung on until the train reached the freight yards of the the- company at Waverly twelve miles away There the men fled into the country but some policemen who were notified ot d pressed e an l automobile jg Into o service I and t the negroes ro were soon overtaken and arrested They gave their names as Joseph Wilson John Johnson Norman Tobin and Florence Davie Davis Da Da- Da vis vie all of ot Philadelphia