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Show LONE BANDIT ROBSJRAIN Engineer Fells Desperado Despera-do With Torch After the Robbery. New Orleans, Sept. 5. Suffering from a fractured skull, the bandit who single-handed robbed the New York Limited train on the Louisville & Nashville railroad 12 miles east of New Orleans last night, later to be felled by the locomotive driver, wns brought to New Orleans today and placed lh tho Charity hospital The bandit said his name was Howard How-ard Edwards and that hie family li-cd li-cd in Jupiter, Fla He gave the police po-lice information which is expected lo lead to the early capture of three other oth-er members of a gang that is believed to have been responsible for a sories of sensational train robberies in this section. After Edwards had completed the round of the coaches, he went forward for-ward to the engine. Caught off his guard for an instant, he was struck by Engineer Baer, who wielded a heavy torch. The bandit dropped unconscious. Followiug so closolv upon the attempted at-tempted robbery of the Cincinnati southbound passenger train on the same road at almost the same spot the night previous, the work of Edwards Ed-wards is considered most daring. Edwards first crawled aboard the engine not far from Now Orleans and coered Engineer Baer and the firo-niau firo-niau with two roolvers. He carried a small valiPe In which he had dynamite dyna-mite and nltro-glycerln. Tho train was stopped and, with the engineer and fireman preceding him at the. point of a revolver, Edwards rifled the mail car of all registered mall and then relieved tbe men passengers in five sleepers and a chair car of their valuables He did not offer to mole3t women. He secured almost $1,000 in cash, then marched the engineer and fireman back to the engine and ordered or-dered them to proceed Strikes With Torch. After riding on the engine for about 25 miles, Engineer Baer caught Edwards off his guard and struck him a terrific blow on the head with a brass torch, fracturing the base of the skull. Edwards fired one shot as bo fell It went wild. Engineer Baer proceeded to rain blows with the torch until he had the bandit -unconscious. When the train reached Bay St. 'EouJs, Miss-., the robber waB taken off and placed in charge of the railroad surgeon, until police officers and detectives de-tectives from New Orleans arrived there in a special train. Although Edwards was unconscious at intervals throughout the night, ho gave the police alnable information concerning his alleged partners. Edwards is five feet sir Inches in height and weighs KJ0 pounds. He np-pea-ra to be about 30 years old. Superintendent Marshall of the New Orleans division of the Ixmlsille Si NiLalftllle railroad, -who was a passenger passen-ger aboard the train, stated that only one man on the train had a revolver, but he could not use it because the robber kept tho trainmen in front of him when he passed through the cars. Many of the passengers know of the preEence of a robber and they had hidden their valuables. |