| Show HE ROBBERS BOLD WORK olds up a U P passenger train her ber flood film business sead ilam an tits the englan aa ken ke he but at kh his bin work ila he trains land leers in sa sail lake city oct 14 ejna a mall all station on the union pacific rall rail oad in weber canyon miles east cast il f Ogden waa was the scene at an early hot hoi r yesterday esterday 3 morning of one of the most daring robberies ever perpetrated in the west it appears that the holdup was the work of one man tingle single handed i and alone who by a clever coup cajoled the I 1 passengers and trainmen into the belief that he had ample assistance in the raid that he was making ills method of operation was as follows ire he first made his appearance by climbing over the tender lato into the cab of the engine and peremptorily demanding the fireman and engineer to throw up their hands saying that he was about to rob the train the robber was disguised in fit such a way as to prevent any possibility of identification having his head enclosed in a sack with e e holes cut the men immediately complied compiled with the request ot of the robb robber r and were forced to disguise themselves as he directed furnishing them with flour sacks to pull over their heads over tills this mask they were re quiren to pull down their hats hath in fit a man ner that would indicate to the gets gers and others that they too were ere rob bers at this point he compelled the no now captive eng enginger inper and fireman 0 un couple ahe train leaving the express and mall mail car attached to the engine after this wag done he personally mounted ILd the engine leaving the engineer anti and fireman upon the ground pulled open the throttle and ran part of the train halt half a mile down tile the canyon N where here lie he stopped and began his efforts boblow to blow open the safe the express messenger mes benger and mail calrk in ili the meantime remained in tur re spec tive cars the robber commanded the express it messenger lessenger to maintain absolute sil silence crice till nn injunction i aich lie he unwillingly billingly Illin gly but implicitly obeyed after this he spent an industrious but fruitless thirty shirly min utes to bore into and blow open the sale safe with dyna dynamite during the operations operation a of the robber the express messenger tat hat quietly on a box near by after falling failing to the inside ot of the site and seeing that success in that direction was impossible he abandoned his work and turned his attention to the mall mail car where here he commanded the clerk to th row irow 0 out ut t the he registered packages lind and fatir mall mail bags were according thrown out taking out his knife lie he immell abely proceeded to cut open the bags and rifle them of uch matter as suited his fancy lie ile secured a number of reg packages but as to the exact number and how much money they contained there la Is no means of knowing at this time at this point tile the robber fin tithed his business and turned his attention towards making his escape 7 the it ie direction which he took from this point Is 1 not known ning attention to the rear portion 0 ri train it was found that the ener 9 r during the time of the operations 0 if p robber in the express and mail C I 1 ahad add made ills his way to uintah station s ta where he sent out the report of the robbery during this time also the fireman had remained with the detached cars at the rear until a tramp came up the road from the direction of the er engine and reported that the robber had fled the fir firrman ernan then went forward and brought back the front part of the train attached to it the part which had been left behind and run tile the train into uintah station where lie he picked up the regular engineer the train reached salt lake tuesday morning two hours and forty minutes late the amount secured Is unknown but probably large the robber overlooked in currency cons consigned to salt lake banks bank i it Is believed tile the robber had cratem but had passed them before halting the train and was wan forced to do the ob himself posses passes nrc are scouring the country in every direction and guarding every mountain past through which the robbers bers are arc likely to pass and officers ex press every coad confidence dence tint they will bt apprehended |
