Show another daring baring wi bu fc fatal attempt at train dolbery Rol bery ST JOSEPH sept 25 A bold atempa at train robbery was cleverly frustrated juat after midnight this thia morning As a result two would be train robbers bernare are dead and throe three are now behind tho the bars in jail of the six men who nho attempted tile the robbery only ono one escaped the train which the bandits had attempted to rob was passenger train no 3 on the kansas ci lity city st joseph council bluffs railroad which loft kansas cit city y at p ii m L sunday night which arrived hore hero at 1230 sunday morning the officials cals of the road had been noti notified fied that a robbery of the road had been planned and they notified the police when the train arrived here a dummy train was made up and nud sixteen police polica officers under the cum command mandof of tho the chief of police wore put aboard in order to thoroughly deceico the robbers the train was as made an exact duplicate of tram train no 3 and consisted consi of tile the and tender au an express und and baggage car and the urual coaches and pullman when whan the decoy reached a point two miles north nor th of st joseph tile the engineers engineer attention was aroused by a lighted lantern moving to and fro between the rails ho he obeyed the signal and soon six masked men surrounded the engineer aud presented a re revolver volyer ht the engineers eer Is head and another at the firemans foremans fi remans keeping them in subjection while the other livo live men hastened on to rob the express car they ordered the messenger to open tho the door which lie he did forthwith three ban bandits aits entered the car leaving two without to gaurd the policeman who wore were guarding the train were distributed in various cars tho majority of them being in the express ca car r immediately the three bandits who had bad undertaken the work of robbing the car entered the door ano policemen ordered ordered them thern to surrender tile the robbers were taken entirely by surprise but they opened fire at once upon the police the police returned the firo fire and a general fusillade fusi lade followed about twenty five shots were fired on both sides when the smoke had cleared i away the tha lifeless bodies of kohler and gleitze were were lying on the floor of the car they had been shot through the head tho the bullet which pierced koh lors head bead produced instant death he never stirred after he was hit gleize aloize was still breathing but lie he died shortly after he was brought fr ought a here bere fredericks the third robber engaged in the fight was not injured and wits was placed under arrest nono of abo I 1 officers injured |