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Show DEPUTY SHERIFF IS SHOT DEAD Ml.uk.n For Train Robber by An- other Officer Searching For Holdup Cottondale, Ala., Sept. 20.-Two "boys were tho bandits who rifled rt mrll car and dynamited the ox- . safe on Alabama Great Southern TIno 7 near this place after 1nnlCn and escaped with booty SSSJ orated from a few bun-dt bun-dt Jhearch for the bandits this morning. Deputy Sheriff Jame, Bon. er of Birmingham was shot and killed by a member of another rosso from Montgomery who mistook Bon-ner Bon-ner for one of the robbers. After stopping the train at Htaf vllle sluing at 12:30 a.m. by rnwju-0f rnwju-0f a block signal tho young bandits ,1th drawn revolvers rorced tho trill. men express messenger and six mall clerks to line up at the side of the track. The robbers then compelled one of tho trainmen to detach the ...m nxnress and mall ca.rB, after which the bandits boarded the loco-motive loco-motive and with one robber at the throttle drove several miles down the track, where the express Bafu was blown to bits with dynamite and the registered mall pouches were rifled. The jobbers then threw open tho throttlo of the engine, leaped to the ground and escaped with their booty into tho swamps while the runaway engine with the express and mall cars ran on through soveral towns until un-til the steam was exhausted and 't stopped at Englewood, Ala. j I Ulrmlngham, Ala., Sept. 20. Dep- uty Sheriff James Bonner of Blrm- j Ingham, whllo searching for bandits, was shot and killed at 7 o'clock this morning nehr Cottondilo by a Montgomery Mont-gomery deputy sheriff who mistook Bonner for ono of tho train robbers who held up and robbed Alabama Great Southern train No. 7 of tho Queen and Crescent Bystom at Blzz-vlllo Blzz-vlllo Siding shortly after midnight. Not even an approximate estlmato of tho amount of booty obtained by tho robbers could bo obtained hero this morning but It Is reported they ;Y tcok a pouch of registered mall and "tf small amounts of mono)' from mall I and express cars. I Engineer Daniels had stopped tho I train for a "Red Block" when tho I robbers climbed In, crdcred the fire-I fire-I man to uncouplo the express car, I which was carried some distance I down tho track. After dynamiting I the safe, tho robbers two masked I men ran tho engine down the trpek I several miles, pulling tho fireman off. I Express Messenger Kelly was cov-I cov-I ered before ho knew what was hap-I hap-I penlng, and could not say what tho losses would be, but thought they would bo light. Tho mall car did not havo much of value, so far as known early this morning. Tho engino, nihil and express ex-press cars havo not been recovered. Several shots were fired into tho mall and express cars before the clerks and messengers left them. Three of tho clerks, Saunders, Phlllpp and Poole, narrowly escaped death, Sounder's head was filled with glass from the door, which a bullet shattered. Two dynamite charges were necessary neces-sary to open the safe, the last ono being so heavy as to Jar the ground Bevcral hundred feet away. The train left here at 10: SO o'clock last night. The scene of the holdup Is a sparsely settled mining Bectlon. |