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Show FIREMAN PREVENTS ROBBERY. . Hits Bandit With Coal Scoop and Frustrates Train Robbery. Apploton, Wis. A passenger train hnd Just passed Apploton Junction when n masked man climbed over tho tender Into tho cab of tho cnglno from tho plntform of tho blind baggage bag-gage car, whero ho hnd been hiding. Revolver in hand, bo commanded Louis Wnndell. driver of tho locomotive, locomo-tive, to stop tho train, uncouple his cnglno nnd run up tho track a short ' distance Wnndell, covered ns ho wns by tho ; man's rovolver, was nbout to comply when Gustnvo Pnhl, his Ilremnn, 'hit the highwayman a heavy blow with his coal scoop, knocking tho rovolver from his hands. Pahl was swinging ; tho scoop for another blow when tho mnn Jumped from tho doorway of tho y cab while tho train was running 1 twenty miles nn hour. v i |