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Show HELD Ur A TRAIN. Feur Bandlte Kob aatungera an Train In llllnola. Kour highwaymen. all heavily armed and two of them wearing niaxka, held up the panneotcera on the llllnola Central Chlrago-Ht. l-nula ni-pri-m train No. 1, known aa tlin "Diamond "Dia-mond apecinl," aa It mrnrrd Mnttenon, Ilia. Tim roliliera recured all thn money and valualilea carried by the thirty paKaengera In the two Pullman aleeplng rnra, atopped the train and CHcaped In the rtarkncne. Tho forward aleeper waa entered flrtit, thn orrupanta aroiiflcd and with nothing on but their nlcht clothea wern mnrrhed hick to the 1'ullman ear behind. Two of tha paHenirere who were alow In responding to tha roinmimd of the rohhera wnro hit n their henda Willi a hatchet and one 1 waa aerloiinly Injured. Ho ayitematlc waa the work of the robber, and with ao Utile ronrualon, that the train crew waa unaware of what waa going on. It waa not until the engineer, In reaiionKa to tha alg-nal, alg-nal, brought hla train to a atop and Boeing nothing of the remainder of the crew walked back to the rear of the train to aarertaln what waa the matter, that he learned of tha lob-bary. lob-bary. No attempt waa made to rob the mall or eapreaa cara. Tha rolh bera eecured mora thaa $1,000 In money and valualilea. |