Inter-Mountain Republican | 1907-07-13 | Page 1 | Woman Nips Attempt at Train Robbery

t- t WOMAN NIPS ATTEMPT AT TRAIN ROBBERY Discovers Design of Desperadoes Despera does and Brings to a Show v Down Los Angeles July 12 i. firo Two men who hind had evidently planned a train robbery boarded the tho southbound Southern Pacific express at Salinas a afew few Cli minutes past midnight this mornIng morn morn- Ing concealed themselves in an upper berth that had not been mado down und and while awaiting favorable conditions condi before pulling their enterprise lilt into execution were touted from rota their nich by A. A V. r Kline a wholesale linen met chant of Now York whose wife hud had suspected their designs One of the men run into the tho rear icar Pullman sleeper and took a shut shot al altho aLIto Ito tho porter Porte who pursued hull him Ho was captured by the tue porter arid and brake brale- man The Ilie other surprised de desperado run forward into Inlo the tourist sleeper where members of the Iho train crow slopped und and held him This fellow begged KO so hard to bo be released that lint Air Mr Kline agreed to let him go atthe at the lie Itt st station Upon returning lo to tee see tho ho other man Mr Kline found the porter and brakeman brake brake- IOU man In apparent They had no prisoner and explained that thai he hind had pulled the bell cord brought the train to a stop and Jumped off They said ho he had wrenched himself free fice but Mr Kline who was inn scon In iii this city tonight said he thought though lie tho two tiiu bereaved captors were not as valorous as they might have been The Intentions ot of the midnight pus pus- were on a scale to comport with an aim old fashioned train robbery At Salinas they played the role rolo o ol arIstocrats and amid walked haughtily through thi-ough tho Ito train to ono one of the Pullman Pull Pull- man sleepers Here they dropped that thai role and climbed Into the upper berth