Show DARING TRAIN ROBBERY ROCHESTER N Y feb 21 the shooting of an express fx messenger meBs euper on a new york central train the rifling ing of the safe the flight of the robber on the engine neof of another train from which he had driven the crew at the point of a revolver a running fight from the engine for miles followed by another engine filled with railway men and the final capture of the desperado by a posse in a swamp after a wild pursuit across the country are some of the sensational features of the mot moat a desperate attempt at train robbery in the history of the central railway and which cast in the shade as an exhibition of coolness aud and nerve the famous exploits of the jesse james band or other outlaws of western tame fame the american express companas Comp anys special between new york and buffalo carried 0 only I 1 goodu shipped by that company nearly all the cars care are run through to chicago and contain the most valuable express matter one cor car known as the money oar car contains specie from the united states stales treasury for the western banks and money in process of exchange between the banks of new york and the west THE LOAD OF WEALTH sent out from now new york on this thin train is in greater saturday evening than on other days and often amounts to more than a million dollars in addition to co jewelry and other valuables the most trusted messengers are placed in charge of this car only one messenger daniel T mcinery wits was assigned to this money car saturday night as the work of billing biding was light the other cars care had bad two mes messengers senners the train left syracuse at 6 5 this morning in charge of conductor emil laas with caleb cherry as engineer A coach was in the rear of the train and the money car just ahead when the train was wars near westport the conductor thought he be heard an air whistle sound souna faintly it aroused him to believe that something was wrong on the express car going out on the platform he climbed onto the car and looking through the hole which the bellford bell cord comes through he be saw the upper part of a 8 man whose face below was concealed by a red flannel mask the messenger be could not see he went back set net the airbrake air brake and called his two trainmen suddenly the mans man a form appeared at the side aide door of the express car revolver bullets whistled past their ears and a voice was beard commanding them to signal the engineer to go ahead ox or take the consequence the train men were unarmed the conductor told one of his men to jump julep oft off and run back to jordan and telegraph a line to rochester that they had a train robber on board this was done and the conductor signaled the engineer to xo RO ahead abea at full speed thinking the robber would not dare to jump and would be captured at the next stop THE TRAIN WENT TO FORT BYRON here the brakes were set met again and the conductor and trainmen went to thi the express car the oar car showed signs of a desperate struggle money meney packages and nd jewelry were lying scattered all bout about everything in the car was stained with blood and messen messenger gerMo mo anery was lying bleeding from several wounds and almost unconscious the robber was nowhere to be seen and it was supposed that he hal had jumped and made has escape the train went on to lyons the news bad spread all along the line by this time and the station at lyons was alive among others in the crowd was a well dressed young man wearing gold eyeglasses eye glasses and carrying a satchel slung over his bis shoulder it happened that the trainmen noticed this young man at syracuse before the train started and they had not seem him since I 1 a and nd the question what he was doing at lyons at once suggested itself an attempt to arrest him was made but he pulled two revolvers verk held the crowd back and backed across the yard until be reached a coal engine which had steam up ready to pull out for the west he pulled the pin holding the tender to the first car climbed over the coal into the cab drove the engineer and fireman out with his bis re vc vol Avers vers pulled open the throttle and STARTED THE ENGINE conductor lane laas and one of the switchmen procured a shotgun freed the engine of the express and with the fireman reman and engineer started in pur suit of the fugitive the central hudson is a four road and the engines though going west were not on the same track the express engine soon overtook the robber who suddenly iud udden denly Jy reversed his engine and let his pursuers pass him pouring a perfects perfect shower of bullets bulletin into the cab as his pursuers went by then the pursuers pur euers stopped and the pursued went ahead another artillery deal ensued he be shotgun taking part this thin time no no ne was hurt in either battle about seven miles farther on the t rubber robber found out that the steam was going out of his engine he dropped off at a cross road and started across the country going south he managed to terrorize a farmer into letting him have a ahoise hoi se and rode on about two miles here he procured another horse the party in the express engine had returned to lyons where the sheriff of wayne county organized a posse pose which under the command of a deputy started in pursuit meantime the farmers along the robbers line oft of retreat also turned out fully armed in in pursuit i THE RUNAWAY WASI WAS SIGHTED about five miles south of newark the roads road were very bad and he made very I 1 poor speed he abandoned his bis bone and ran across lots loto to bennona Ben tona swamp but the swamp proved too full of water crater to be penetrated and the fugitive took up a position behind a stone wall and faced his big pursuers after some parle parley he be surrendered to deputy he was taken back to byors and lodged in jail he gave the name of william cross and said he was from new mexico and had bad been boarding in syracuse some time he admitted that he be was the man who attempted the train robbing to chief of detectives hayden of this city who had been wired for he is believed to be the much wanted oliver curtis perry who robbed express messenger moore near utica last fall the story of what occurred gin the express car as far as it can be gathered is cross boarded the train when it pulled out of syracuse climbing on top of the express car he was provided with a hooked rope fastening the book in the root roof of the side of the car be let himself down on the other side resting his toes on the ledge that runs across the car looked through the glass of the side door and saw the messenger in froot brov t of one of the safes which was wag open smashing the glass with his revolver he covered the messenger ordering him to hold up his hands instead reached for the signal cord with one hand band and for his bis te revolver volver with the other A bullet smashed his hand but not before the signal was given that aroused the conductor then Idol nery fired on the robber putting a bullet through his hie coat the robber shot hot the messenger twice once in each log leg climbed into the oar and a desperate struggle took place which did not end until the train was stopped for a time tiam near weedsport Weed sport it is evident that the robber then climbed out on top of the car remaining there until the stop at lyons so go far as learned the robber secured absolute absolutely V nothing 9 it is now learned the robber was formerly a cowboy and later worked as a railway brakenman bra kenaan WHO is HE ROCHESTER N Y feb sheriff thornton today in reply to a telegraphic request foy forwarded warded a detailed description of the train robber in jail here to the st louis authorities this afternoon he received an answer that it tallied with that of orth stein whose career as a newspaper reporter forger confidence man and robber is in well remembered |