| Show u I I i I I Railway 0 Postal Clerks Bound nS r u n Pouches S r S Rifled o rs jroud o jL Ci Armed Bandits Rob Car Between Rawlins and utter sutter Early This Morning and Escape When Confederates Slow Down Train Posses Searching I In Hills and Prairies But Crooks Have Big Start ONE O NE of o the most sensational mail train robberies of recent recent J years Jears vas yas as enacted at 1 OS 08 a m in today between Rawlins and lock Hock Springs Wyo Jo by two masked bandits three twenty twenty pouches of registered mail being rifled before the highwaymen disappeared into the thc darkness Railroad officials s today had no method of at determining th the value ot of the loot taken by the tho robbers From orom all Indications they board board- boarded boarded ed the tho Union Pacific we westbound mall mail train number five at Raw Raw- Rawlins line un lins after arter the tho train had been In- In Inspected inspected In Inspected by car cor Inspectors and prior to Its departure for Cor the west cst est They gained admittance to th the stora storage o car which carries valuable mall mail by breaking the th window and screen creen on the door then opening the door door from the Inside Ith n ith their hands ROutERS Uti V The robbers conceal concealed d then them them them- themselves selves in the storage car until Clerk Jack an Madigan of ot Cheyenne entered the this storage car to secure mall mail to take to the tho dIstributing car Two masked men seen confronted Madigan a relieving him of ot his gun un and proceeded pro pe to tie tl him nub twIne Madlean Madigan was as then placed face roco downward do In the th front end endor or of the car The bl bandits bandit then proceeded l to the working car held up A A J JMiller In chare charge ot of o the mall mati train and 1 look him Into the storage car non Itoh 23 3 POUChES Tho The two Iwo bandits then to tho working car car here they rifled 23 registered mail mall pouches Two hours later when hen the traIn arrived Cd at Rock Springs tho the news or oC the robbery was first given out oula a and nd posses from all parts of Sweetwater and Carbon counties landed together In la the search curca for forthe forthe forthe- forthe the bandits Mall Mail from the east cast Is transferred at Rock nock SprIngs and s station at- at attendants attendants at attendants on falling failing to secure pouches on arrival of ot tho the train investigated finding Madlean Madigan and Miller bound In the th car H II A Connett superintendent of the western division of ot the Union Pacific over long distance tele tele- telephone tebe- tebe telephone phone today gave cave The t Examiner hand first information on n the tho robbery lie He II nO ROBBERS BEHS EXPERTS The train robbers are aro experts and knew their game camo to a letter The manner In which they bound lIler and Madlean Madigan convinced railroad officials of ot their professionalism The bandits evidently knew the tho manners and habits of ot the train crew and also the th Inner of oC mall mail clerk clerks and Miller happ happened ned to be the tho only clerks clerk on the en- en en lire train an and once bound the robbers worked without disturb disturb- disturbance disturbance ance Members of ot the tram train crews are not allowed admittance to tomail mall mail cars ears another reason why the I 1 highwaymen completed their job without Interference one Forty miles out of or Raw Raw- Rawlins Rawlins lins lies the train made a must most UP- UP unusual un unusual usual stop at The Tho block signal halted the train and It it Is believed that the train rob rob- robbers rob robbers bers hers jumped from tram the tho train at this point point Ordinarily the tho train makes II a through run from Rawlins Haw to lock Hock Springs without a 0 stop Mop the th distance between these points be- be beIng being Inc bc-Inc Ing US III miles l I MONTY MONEY AND n It V There Is a possibility that the robbers might have left lert the tho train at the th coal cool shute at node Springs The highway men took only money and jewelry from the reg reg- reg- reg registered pouches bonds anti and checks lot of every kind and description be- be beIng be belne leg lne left on the floor Tho Tue car on arrival at Green River looked like a cyclone had hit It Doth Both Miller lI and Madigan Madlean were vere threatened with death by the In the Iho event ent that they made any dl disturbance The rob rob- rob br however did not Jai has the I two clerks Under usual circumstances Miller MilicI and Madigan work between The Th Th C Cheyenne and Green River niver have hav t been een or- or ordered or ordered two men however tr dered tiered to to tell their story to postal lostal authorities Warden Frank of ot the tI Wyoming state prison and departments In Carbon and Sweet Sweet- Sweetwater water water counties are operating co-operating co with railroad and postal author author- authorIties authorities authorities in trying to run down don th highwaymen BANDITS YOUNG YOl d There Thero are few clues lues to the robbery as neither Madigan nor Miller rot got ot a good glimpse of ot the themen themen themen men They are de described as being men about 25 years of at 01 aRe age how how- however ever eer dark complexioned hinc weiching about 10 poun pounds From reports of ot th the clerks and railroad the 1110 highway highway- highwaymen highwaymen men were were- experts at their busi bust business bustness business ness The train was u In charge chare of ot Con Con- Conductor Conductor Con Conductor ductor J 3 Storey of ot Cheyenne and EngIneer Dates Dales The distributing car In which Madigan and Miller were working li is I placed on westbound mall train number nine nino at Green I RIver r for forI forth I lbs he west This car It l Li is believed registered moIl mall for tor Utah Nevada California and ond Iho the Ha lla lIa- lIa Hawaiian Islands |
