Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-08-04 | Page 18 | Bandits Hold up Rio Grande Train at Roy, near Ogden, and Camera Shots Fired

I TRAIN AT ROY, NEAR OGDEN, I - AND CAMERA SHOTS FIRED I Denver & Rio Grande train No. 5, the Denver Limited, was held up by six masked men this afternoon near Roy. The holdup occurred about 4:30, just after tho train had gathered headway head-way after passing Roy station. Amidst a fusillade of bullets, the engineer and fireman were ordered to stop by two of tho men. The others boarded the train when it came to a stop and made a hurried search of the passengers until the object of tho holdup was revealed. re-vealed. There was a bride and groom oni the train. They were the objective of the bandits. The groom was seized, bound and gagged and thrown out a window. The bride, a winsome maiden maid-en of abbut 19 years, was roughly seized and hurried to a waiting automobile auto-mobile and the bandits made their escape es-cape down the road. Although it may seem on the face of it, as though it were a real holdup, hold-up, the above had been definitely planned as a part of the motion picture being made by the Ogden Pictures Corporation. It is a scene of the picture pic-ture written by W. Fred Bossner. It is a delightful comedy of the "slapstick" "slap-stick" order. It is one of the final scenes before the picture is released. After many negotiations, Mr. Bossner Boss-ner finally got the consent of the officials of-ficials at Denver to hold up one of their best trains, to make the picture" more realistic. The Denver &. Rio Grande officials were pleased to cooperate co-operate with the Ogden producing company to help all they could to make it a success. Tho train crew had their orders be-foro be-foro leaving Salt Lake as to the holdup. hold-up. The performers boarded it at i Clearfield so that they would have plenty of time to get ready before the big stunt was pulled off. Under the direction of Thomas Brierly, every thing went as planned and the picture will be completed in a few days.- Ogden Og-den talent is used In most of the scenes, although the leading part is taken by Brierly himself. That the picture will be a credit to the work of the local company is the prediction of those who have seen some of the finished film. The comedy has not been named, or rather, Mr. Bossner has not'announced it. He says that when the name is put on tho billboards, It, of itself, will guarantee a full house.