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Show fESSENGER KILLS TRAIN ROBBER I ATTACK ON TRAIN BY GANG OF I EIGHT FOILED BY DEADLY. GUN I FIRE OF 6RAVEEXPRESS CLERK I 'Bandits Who Stop Golden State Limited and Uncouple Un-couple Cars Flee to Automobiles When One Is Slain and Another Wounded; Dynamite Left Behind I TUCSON, Ariz , May 15 With two well directed bullets. Express Messenger H. Stewart early today frustrated a spectacular at tempt by eight masked bandits to rob Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Pa-cific tram No. 3, the Golden Stats Limited bound from Chicago to Los Angeles. Stewart killed one of the octet, apparently wounded H a second and routed the band empty handed rassengers were noi inwimw " the holdup, which was staged neaf Jaynes. a flag station eight miles ,jt of Tucson. PLLI WORE m BBER GLOl ES. Tho body of the slain bandit, whoso hands wero Incased In rubber glo.' -was recognized by Sheriff McTJan- lei of Pinal county as that of a Tuc- son pool room habitue. 'B I Beside the body was found a sack i'H I of dynamite with which the bandits I evidently Intended to blow strnn:; boxes In the mall and baggage can 'B A red fuse, a railroad stop slg- nal. was used by the gang to halt the aJSV limited at an Isolated spot midway I between Jaynes and Cortaro at 1:10 HJ o'clock thin morning. I Three masked men bound the en- BB glneer and a fourth stood guard ovr HH I the passenger coaches With revol- HJ j ver leveled, they forced a tramp HBl they discovered riding the "blind b.s- gage" to assist them In uncoupling tho mall and express ears from tho JH ' remainder of the train. ENGINEER OBEYS, j The engineer, obeying orders of the armed trio, rolled the mall and ex- press cars about a dozen car lengths I to a point where four of the masked I men WSre walling In an automobile. When Conductor Madlgan thrust , his head out of a vestibule of one of j the passenger coaches to ascertain j n hat had occurred, a member of tho bandit gang opened fire. Messenger Stewart had thrown open the door of the baggage car. h"n Stewart w that sfadlgan In d inger he Killed with one shot ' .1 bandit who had flrod at the ronrin i lor. Stewart then wheeled and sent another bullet at four robbrs who 'H were advancing on the baggago and mall cars. One apparently hit. stag- gored and shouted to his comrades. Then all seven of thorn turned and currled to two automobiles and sped west In their cars. j 'H The body of a member of the msskr i ed party which held up the Golden Vkl State Limited eight milee west of Tucson at 1 o'clock, was identified llLi as that of Tom DusaL . 11 GOAT RANCH OWNER, The slain bandit was the proprl-etor proprl-etor of a goat ranch a short distance west of Tucson and well known about r the city whero he was a pool hall , habitue. Sheriff Daniels announced that a large force of deputies ha-' ha-' been dispatched and Is hot upon the rheels of the bandit gang, who left the scen-e of the robbery by automo-bile automo-bile on the Cass Grande-Tucson hlgb- I way. Information regarding the di- 'aLI i rectlon taken by the robbers was withhold, With the statement thAl ; 'H work of the sheriff's office would be ' hampered should It be released. Reports that a second member of tho bandit gang was fatally shot and captured wore denied. BDGHTI ii S iRDED. It was nndorstood from local ;ia-thorlties ;ia-thorlties that all members of the ban- vlfl dlt gang probably reside In the vlcln-Ity vlcln-Ity of Tucson nndemay be known mU here, this being given added weigh bj thi of the d ntiiy i iaV the slam robber. ILw body of Ducal was brought Tucson this morning It was under- ! stood unofficially that the bandit traveling in a heavy car, had taken j a western course from the scene 1 the main traveled highway. A ', southern Arizona ;hJghways for l C ' miles In every dirOpton wero care-fully care-fully guarded thlstiornlng. pnrtlcu-larly pnrtlcu-larly those towardjwhe Mexican bor-der bor-der was Bspected the ban dits vould direct Sielr fllghl |