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Show TRAVELERS SUBDUE GOLORADO BANDIT PLANS OF TRAIN ROBBER, FRUSTRATED FRUS-TRATED BY. ACTION OF HIS VICTIMS. After Collecting Passenger's Valuables Bandit Is Trapped in Vestibule of Train and Turned Over to the Authorities. Denver. Passengers on a Santa Fe train were robbed early Thursday morning by a masked bandit between L;rs Animas and La Junta, Colo. The passengers then captured the robber iind delivered him to the police at La Junta, nfter recovering nearly all their valuables. It was reported that the robber boarded the train at Las Animas. He proceeded through the train, collecting collect-ing the passengers' valuables. C. A. O'Brien, the conductor, .dropped a message out of a window at some little station describing the rob-' rob-' ber. The telegraph operator saw it and sent u warning to La Junta. As the train n eared that place the conductor led I he passengers in a rush upon the bandit as lie entered a vestibule. He was overpowered and bold until the train readied the La Junta station, where local officers took him in charge. The man is said to have obtained about $-100, of which all except' $70 was recovered. He told the wonui passengers that they need not be ularmed. He gave the name of John Morgan. |