Show HOLDUPS fOILED BY MESSENGER I i t. E Express Pr ess Train Held Up tp in 0 ArKansas s Bandits Get Nothing MESS MESSENGER NGER BURGETT FATALLY SHOOTS ONE Is Himself Severely Beaten a and nd Bruised by Remaining Remain Remain- ing IDe g Rob Robber er I FORT SI SMITH UTH Ark Oct 11 Four 11 Four bandits bungled a a. holdup of or a northbound north north- bound Kansas City Olty South Southern passenger train between between Hatfield and Mena Ark Ark- early today One was waR wounded wound d and captured and and- the other outlaws escaped after a a. battle with Express Messenger M Merrill nUl Burgett of Kansas City Mo in which h Burgett exhausted his ammunition ni tion and wa was badly beaten Burgett shot hot the tho robber who Was was discovered discovered discovered dis dis- covered an hour later after his companions companions companions compan compan- ions had deserted him The rhe robber is being conveyed to Mona Fifty or more men in armed posses are pursuing the bandits Burgett is in a a. hosp hospital tal at t Mena Men He will recover The Tho train irain known wn as as' Iso No o. o 2 left Hatfield Hat Rat field ld Af Ark about 2 0 cl t k While White I Ito in his car af ho saw to B Burgett r tt was working tho the bandits bandito clambering up to the side door They The smashed tho glass tho-glass with their revolver r butt butts Hides Valuable Packages Burgett hid his most alu valuable ble packages pack paek packages ages despite despite- the hail bail of bullets which th the bandits poured into the Ute car The pa packages hidden Burgett turned his attention at to the invaders As Burgett Barett fired flied at them tho the robbers reached reach d through the smashed windows o 8 and loos- loos ened the catch which hold the door from tho the inside Then they opened the iho door and Rud sprang into the car ear one b bone by byone byone one firing on Bartlett as M they advance eL The messenger r protected by baggage met net the robbers robbers' ors ors' fire tire The train had attained a s o p ed of ot about thirty miles an hour hoar an and a aar apparently p ar none of the tho train or locon oeo tive ive cr crews 5 know that a a. holdup was being at at- tempted A shot fired b by Burgett before before be be- f fore re the th robbers gained tho the inside of the thA car wounded one of them Tho rho fight continued until Bur Burgett's etts ett's cartridges were gone o The robbers robben closed dosed in and by br f orco of numbers overpowered over over- powered ower d him although he be gave o battle t to o i three wielding the tho butt of his shot shot- 1 run cun un effectively ft The bandits clubbed the me messenger rop repeatedly rate asking Wheres Where's that package e of money Bleeding Burgett crouched in a a. corner cor cor- corner ner of the car while the robbers brutally brutally brut bru bru- t tally beat and kicked him but did not reveal the hiding biding pla place Bandits Search Car The bandits searched arched tho the car carefully care care- fully but found nothing Then Theu they applied the an and escaped In answer to the conductors conductor's repeated repeat repeat- ed kno knockings s 8 on the do door r of ot the tho car ar Bar Burge ett t struggled to his feet unlocked unlocked un un- un locked the door then f fainted Ho was revived re Jon long enough to give 0 a brief ketch of the attempted holdup and the train wa was rushed rushed- into Men Mona ona a. a A p posse posse ne was organized to pursue the robbers into th the hl hills JS near IT Hatfield and Potter Ark Near Potter the wounded robber was found 80 So f far r as known the outlaws 8 took nothing Tho The wounded robber who is 6 unidentified fled fied received a charge o of shot bot in the breast breut near the heart Probably he h. will die |