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Show BOLD BANDITS HOLD UP TRAIN Secure Registered Packages Said to Have Contained $30,000 and Make Their Escape. Robbery Occurred Within Eight Miles of Outskirts of Colorado Capital, and Two Miles From Fort Logan, Trick Being Turned by Three Men. Denver. Almost within the city limits of Denver, at what is known as Military Junction, three masked robbers stopped eastbound Denver & Rio Grande passenger train No. 4, known as the Atlantic express, en Saturday, February 13. Amid a fusillade fusil-lade of revolver shots from one of the robbers, the other forced the mail clerk to open the door of his car. The robber then coolly searched every piece of registered mail in the car, threw the packages he desired into a sack and jumped off. At the point of revolvers, the engineer, fireman, fire-man, mail and baggage clerks were marched up tlfe track a distance, then told to get back to their train. The robbers then disappeared with their booty. Investigation by railway officials and the police show that at least $30,-000 $30,-000 was secured by the robbers. From the manner in which the holdup was accomplished. It is thought possible that the robbers are the ones responsible for the hold-up of the Denver & Rio Grande train last May, when Express Messenger Wright was killed. The robbery was remarkable for its originality and daring. It took place within eight miles of Denver, within less than two miles of Fort Logan, the United States military reservation, and at a spot where habitations hab-itations are plentiful. Yet so thorough thor-ough was the work of the robbers rob-bers and so well were their plans laid that they had fully an hour and a half start of the officers. It seems two of the robbers crawled over the tender of the engine and at -the point of their pistols compelled com-pelled the engineer to stop the train. The engineer and fireman were then inarched to the mail car and ordered to call out the men in the car. When they came out, one of the robbers entered the car and secured all of the registered mail, the robbers outside out-side keeping up a fusillade of shots which kept the passengers from Intruding. In-truding. Securing the registered packages the robbers disappeared, and the engineer made a record run to the union depot, where he reported the robbery, and within a few min also notified, and posses started out from the army post, Littleton and Petersburg. utes officers in automobiles were hur rying to the scene. Fort Logan was |
