Show TRAIN ROBBERS Of LANE AN CUTOff CUTOff- GET VAY A WITH PLUNDER Four lien in Express Wagon Wag Wag- on May Have Haye Been Escaping Escaping Es Es- caping capin Criminals OMAHA Neb Nob May 24 Tn In In spite of the yi vigorous orous search for the Iane Lane cutoff train robbers the authorities have as asyet asyet yet ret secured no tangible clues John an employee of a stove factory was walking walkin to his home in South Omaha from front Ralston a suburb and about midnight bt was passed by four men in an express wagon fagon headed for South Omaha and driving rapidly It is the general belief that these were wele the train robbers was unable to Continued on pa page e 4 TRAIN ROBBERS Continued from page 1 furnish any definite description of the men Two empty emph mail pouches taken from the train were were found some distance from where the robbery occurred Saturday Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- ni night ht The They had bad bee neut open and their contents removed remo-ed the outlaws outlaws out out- laws overlooking only one package e. e It his has b b en learned learnt d' d thata fire was burning on the bank near where the tho robbery occurred and it is believed to have hac been used as a signal bv by the robbers rob rob- hers bers in order that they might know where inhere to secrete themselves The police police po po- po- po lice believe the outlaws went to a rendezvous rendezvous ren ren- ous de already selected elected either in Omaha or South Omaha and devoted Sunday to dividing iding their loot Their principal efforts therefore are being put forth in the two cities where the robbers robbers rob rob- bers are believed belie to be in in hiding Conductor Wallace allace says he was more surprised at the boldness of the robbers than anything elseI elseI else I g got t out of the sleeper at the rear of the train when I heard the shooting shoot ring ing said Faid Wallace U and and the robbers r promptly began using my lantern as a target I walked forward to the next car when one of the robbers yelled at atme me file Obeys This Order I Get inside iMide there before you jou get Jet Your head shot off It did dil not take Tn me long Ions to obey I I went forward inside the train and when I r got to the dining car ear just behind the baggage ear car the robbers had about finished their job I found th colored waiters in a panic They were all up expecting to leave lesye the train at Omaha I Two or oj three of the dining ear car men had stuck their hea heads ls out and the robbers rob rob- hers bers sent a n few bullets in their lion None of the passengers knew what had happened e because they were vh f nearly all asleep fe fee Chief Clerk Whitmore of the mail maH ear car said car said the pouches stolen were ere considered con con- among the less important re registered reg- reg mail One of them was a foreign for ei eign pouch four were destined for Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago and the other two hlo to New York Passenger Was Cautious John P. P Maurer representative of a aNew aNew New York firm had a a. thriving experience expert expert- ence euce and aDd gave the tho sheriff an exciting five minutes minute after the holdup occurred Maurer had not gone one to hi his berth when the train stopped and hearing hearin the shooting hooting he got out on the rear platform platform plat plat- I form to investigate te He lie surmised a holdup was going oin on and having a large larte sum of ot money in his bis possession derided not to wait for lor the robbers to call cn on him bim He started for the brush at once onet and crouched in a bunch of i weeds where he watched the proceed proceed- ings After the train started be heard the robbers make off but bot it was several several sev sev- eral hours hoars he before Core he left his hiding place Just as all he c did d d so so he came in in contact with the sheriffs sheriff's automobile That official promptly told Maurer aurer to hol hold 1 up his hi hands or he be would be shot After explanations satisfactory to the sheriff were made was brou brought ht to the city |