Show BOLD TRAIN ROBBERY express messenger fer killed and the pas robbed springfield NOFIELD mo sept 3 near the little station of mound valley kansas at 4 this morning three men held up the st louis and san francisco passenger train exp eap express ress messenger chapman was shot and nd killed failing to secure money f from rom the express car I 1 the bandits robbed the passengers it is estimated that the amount of booty secured fell not far short of watches diamonds and other valuables were taken along with cash the women were not mothe exact manner in which the ox ex tr press e 8 8 messenger lost his life is not known n 0 w n but he lie fell a victim to a bullet from one of the outlaws deadly win chesters cheaters the train in charge of conductor d ue for mills arrived in this cita nt at 11 this morn morning ing nearly two hours late throughout the robbery only two shots were fired and they were tho the ones that blotted out the life of f the express press messenger rutus rufus cone chief of f ex police of wichita was a passenger on to the ll train etrain the train crew who went through the hold up with the exception of baggage master leitwein reside at monetta and did not come through this city the only ones beside the women unmolested were those who were traveling in the sleeper the work was performed with the coolest deliberation tho the robbers boarded the engine at mound ya valley I 1 ig the engineer was ordered ordered a ato to pull u out and keep moving I 1 until or ordered ered to sto stop A about 1 at u one and a half in miles I 1 lea out of t the e station the leader called to the engineer ene ineer to stop the train the tile crew were r robbed 0 abbed and next the tile passengers in t the lie smoking and chai chair rears cars chief cone and the porter of the sleeper who were armed had taken up a position so that they were shielded but could see sea the door and waited ready for the battle but the robbers went by that car and escaped in tile darkness when the train reached 0 oswego s wego a sheriffs posse was organized and started in pursuit of the bandits when the train halted at mound city express Mee chapman left the haless ex express car carto to go into the smoker he had got out on the depot platform and started toward the rear of the train as the robbers who were on the engine thought he lie was going to give an alarm and opened fire tire on hm him lie ile wae was shot through the head the tile train was forced to move on and leave leav him lying on the slat platform form after the 0 bandits had abandoned the train it went back after the dead man chapman was 24 04 years old and lived at joplin ho ile leaves a wife to whom he lie had but recently been married WICHITA kan sept 4 railway and express company officials liero here are of the opinion that the frisco train ro robbery at mound valley yesterday moning was committed by bill dalton dynamite dick and another one of the outlaws who escaped after the battle battie with the U 8 marshal marshals at I 1 ingalls aig all 8 friday these three desperadoes were seen by the tile indian police early saturday morning in usage county about forty miles south of the scene of the robbery going towards the kansas line |