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Show BOLD BANDITS ' HOLD UP TRAIN 1 iii 1 iti . ,1 '' TWO ROBBERS WATCH . . ON ROOF OF CAR , I, . I !. ,l ll' II I' ' Southbound Qr.eaon. Express o,i,South-ern o,i,South-ern Paelflc.Looted , by threa.Robbcrs One of Therrmat Negro Safei Were Blown Open. 'Iteddlrig, Cal.,"Sept, 1, Three"rob-berk, Three"rob-berk, one u negro', held (ip'tho Vou'th-bpund Vou'th-bpund (Jregpn 'expiess ol) the Southern South-ern l'aclflp ifllroad, a mile nnd a half north of Lamolnc, forty miles north of Redding, at 9 o'clock' tonight. They "Wow both safes Itf" thV'L'xpress car, .tilled them .nnlj, escaped, accompanied accom-panied by two lOtlipr ,iobhors who had been riding on thu roof of the car. N6 bne was hint. The vnlile df the lobbers' booty has dot been learned. Tlie robbery was reported ot Delta, Cal., by Conductor Dlckeyy, within fifteen minutes after It happened. A special train warf Immediately prepared pre-pared at Duusmulr, Cal., ond leH bearing bear-ing a pohse, Sheriff Montgomery of Tehamn county also was notified and oigunlzcd another posso (which was picked up by a special train ut Hed llluff. 'A tblrd posse was organized at Ke'ddng nnd Joined the Hed UlulT men, . A battle Is expected wlthi the band-Its' band-Its' who fled to the Wrests west ot the Southern Pacific right of wny. The robbers boarded tjio train as It stood 011. a siding n't GbBon, near Lamolnc. When tho train got under waj' three ot them Worked their way Into the express car, holding" thu part-Bengers part-Bengers ,nt bay wltli, revolvers, Only one of the bandlts,,jhe, negro wns unmasked. un-masked. They blew tho safes and at the soimtl of the explosion tho, train slowed down. The robbers grasped what t,hey could lay' hands on and JumpeiLJnto the duikncss, vlieretlielr two companions (Joined ,thon 'The 'hegl'o I dlierlbed In illspntcheR recejveil Viere ai 'being five feet Hix Inches tni,' anil weighing ir.O pounds' Ue.worQ, a V'nck Hlpuchfjnt" One of tho whltuinion was slightly 1nl)er, hn.4 n ianUy mutnche and wore'blue ovei4-alk'"The ovei4-alk'"The 'third' wllfc of uiedlum'Jielght and woj,o'a,gray siill ailll' grriy sloufch hntf,-N de'sQclptlpn wns obtaVuq'd of the men wlio ivero outside thr,,V,ar. Tho first special train was. not, due to reach the Bcenu of the rohlierjti until un-til aft.er mltlnlpht. " ' ' , ,.A, InnUcmaii ql the .(riilu. It was Itiirneil Into tonight., f itKJJlfii l9"l' Intb Hit nutomobHo which headed, fpv itunsinuir'. Tills in believed to Increase the chance of capturing the baVidlts. |