Emery County Progress | 1909-05-29 | Page 2 | Quartette of Desperadoes Hold up Passenger Train

wm OF UP PASSENGER overland L m ted held up neap omaha seven reg estered mail pouches be ng secured by H gh waymen omaha eb four masked held up and robbed union pacific passenger train no 2 knoon as the overland limited a few miles west of the city just batore mian adur atur day may 22 and secured seven reg mall pouce es the sacks are believed to have con talked a large sum the robbers eat dently got on the train at some town west of here the holdup occurred abbit five miles west of the aty urn its in a deep cut along the recently constructed lane cut off the robbers climbed down over the tank and forced the engineer to stop his thain and then proceeded to the mail car the clerks were forced to open the door and hand out a number of pouches of registered mail once they secured the bags they hurried away in a southerly diorec tion and permitted the train to proceed the passengers were not mo bested and as soon as the robbers let the scene of the hold up the train came to this city A big squad of police hurried to the cene and quickly started in pursuit of the bandits