Garland Globe | 1907-09-28 | Page 2 | Two Robbers Hold up Train

TW0 ROBBERS HOLD UP TRAIN Drive Mail Clerks From the Car and Carry Away Registered Mail After Dynamiting Safe. Montana tho Scene of Another Train Robbery In Which No One Is Hurt, Although Robbers Kept up Continuous Fussllade to Terrify Passengers. St. Paul. Tho Great Northern Oriental Ori-ental Limited train No. 1, which left St. Paul Tuesday morning, was held up by two masked men seven miles west of Ilcxford, Mont., early Thursday Thurs-day morning. The robbers crawled over tho tender and, nt tho point of their guns, commanded tho engineer to stop the trnln. They then onlered him to go back with them to tho express ex-press car, and instructed him to tell tho oxprcss messenger, mall clerk and baggagemnn to go back into the coaches. Whllo this was being done, tho robbers rob-bers kept up a continuous fusillade with their guns to terrify tho passengers. passen-gers. After tho messenger and mall clerk left their cars tho robbers went through , tho mall cars and robbed tho sack.8 of n lnrgo quantity of registered regis-tered mall. Then they went into nn express car, which carried an overflow of innll, baggago and express, and which contnlned n rcgulnr through safo. After exploding threo charges, tho saro was opened and found empty. The robbers did not enter tho regular oxpress car. ' On finding tho safo empty tho highwaymen high-waymen helped themselves to tho registered reg-istered mall and after firing a parting volley disappeared. One of tho robbers Is described as bolng about GO years of ngo and about 5 feet 11 Inches tall, and tho other considerably shorter. They woro black clothes and black soft hats.