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Show UNION PACIFIC TRAIN HELD UP May Be the Same Bandit Who Robbed the Mail Train at Roy. Cheyenne, "Wyo., April 4. Union Pacific Overland limited No. 1 was held up by a lone bandit at Corlett Junction, five miles west of, here, early tonight, according to a report received here. Passengers were relieved re-lieved of $450, it was said. The robber rob-ber escaped. A sheriff's posse is hurrying hur-rying to the scene. The bandit appeared in the aisle of one of the Pullmans about 9 o'clock tonight, shortly after the train had left Cheyenne. No one In the car appeared ap-peared to know how the robber entered en-tered and attention was first called to his presence when he began to call for valuables from the passengers, passen-gers, flourishing a revolver to enforce his demands. After the bandit had collected about $450 in cash, according to Union Pacific Pa-cific officials, he disappeared from the rear coach Authorities at Cheyenne Chey-enne were notified and within a few mlnuteR two automobiles, with a sheriff's sher-iff's posse were racing toward Corlett Cor-lett Junction, where the holdup occurred. oc-curred. In general, officials said, the bandit ban-dit answered the description of the man who within the last few weeks held up Union Pacific trains near Green River, Wyo., and Ogden, Utah. He was described as of medium weight, wearing a macklnaw coat and was apparently about 35 years of age. The Oregon Short Line train was held up at Roy at 12:40 a, m., March 26, by a lone bandit, described as a young man about medium height and weighing about 160 pounds. The bandit ban-dit gave his entire attention to the mall car, from which he secured 31 pieceB of registered matter. A reward re-ward of $3000 has been offered for his arrest. The government, the railroad rail-road company and the state each offered of-fered $1000. According to the latest available reports, re-ports, the robber secured a wallet containing con-taining $546, contributed by B. H. O'Brien of San Francisco. Besides this amount, only small change and a watch were taken. The robber, described as a youth, swung onto the observation car Just outside of Cheyenne. Seven passengers, passen-gers, two of them women, were confronted con-fronted with a demand for valuables. In each hand the bandit gripped a revolver. re-volver. The train's stenographer was compelled to take up the collection. The women were not molested. While the scene was being enacted, a flagman entered the car. Sensing the situation, he cut the bell cord and retreated. The bandit, after presenting present-ing the porter with the watch he car ried, which he said he "got In another robbery," leaped from the train, which was running about thirty miles an hour. The train continued without a stop. |