Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-10-19 | Page 3 | Train Bandits Use Auto to Carry off Loot

TRAIN flAIN BANDITS USE AUTO TO CARRY OFF lOOT i Robb Robbers rs' rs Hold Up Two Freights Fail to Connect Connect Con Con- neet With Express NEW NW EW YORK Oct 19 SIx Six armed men held up and robbed robbe-d two freight trat trains and attempted to rob an American Amer Amer- ican Express train on the W West Vest st Shore t railroad at the entrance to a a. tunnel h between Congers and N. N N.-i N. early toda today todar After Arter loading an automobile With Ith packages taken fron from th two freight trains the bandits I Att Arriving at the he mouth of ot the tunnel tunnel tunnel tun tun- nel fn In an automobile the robbers tampered tampered tam tame with ith the wires controlling a 81 signal nal and caused the light to show red rell This halted the first freight train and as it stopp stopped d the holdup men appeared beside the locomotive and covered the engineer and firemen firemen firemen fire fire- men with revolvers They th then n open several freight cars and selected such packagEs package as the they wanted loading them into their automobile au au- au- au They then ordered the engineer to proceed The second freight train Was v held up and nd robbed In ii b. similar manner When the American Express train stopped at the red signal the robbers robbers rob rob- bers bels neglected to station a a. man at the locomotive and all of ot them went back I apparently with the intention of breaking Into one of the cars As I soon as they were out of ot sight Right the I engineer started up the train The I looted trains were stopped at West Vest Haverstraw th the next station north from the tle scene of ot the holdup and the crews gave the first news of ot the robbery rob rob- bery Sheriff Sarven of ot f Rockland county and others other attempted to pursue t the te e robbers in an automobile but were able to trace them only as far as s JI Hackensack N. N J J. I