Show DARING ROBBERY A Southern Pacific Train Stopped Stop-ped and the Mail and Express Ex-press Cars Plundered An Aggregate Reward of 82200 Offered for Each and Every One of the Robbers Thirtyfive Soldiers aud Officers of the Law Scouring the Country ill all Directions I Train Robbery SAN FBANOISCO April 29One of the most audacious desperate And successful train robberies eve recorded has occurred on tho westbound overland train on the Southern Pacific Railroad near Tucson Arizona A special dispatch to the Evening Bulletin from Tucson gives the details of the affair as follows The westbound express due hero at 1030 last evening was stopped and robbed at Papago station eighteen miles east of here about 930 last evening The number of men engaged in the robbery is variously estimated at from five to eight Col Harper the engineer when approaching approach-ing Papago side station was signaled by a red lantern to stop He slowed down and as he approached tho light he noticed obstructions ob-structions on the track so placed that incase in-case he failed to stop the engine would spread the track and derail itself Immediately Immedi-ately on stopping a dozen or more shots were fired into the express oar and a man with a pistol in each hand boarded the locomotive and commanded Harper to get down The other robbers had in the meantime been trying to open the express car Failing to get it open they placed a sitckof giant powder under it and compelled com-pelled Harper to light the fuse attached This he was obliged to do but to avoid being be-ing blown up the messenger opened the oar and the robbers took posession After ex inguishing the fuse they took charge of the oar uncoupled the engine baggage and express ex-press cars from the remainder of the train and made Harper get on the engine and pull ahead two lengths This being done Harper was again put off and the robbers took charge of the engine and pulled six miles toward Tucson Here they killed the engine and left it During the run the robbers rob-bers went through the mail and express jars but did not got more than 5000 They got two packages of railway money one > of 1210 and one of 500 and also took two packages of postage stamps going to postoffice at San Francisco i It is reported that the express messenger threw 3500 in gold into the stove and so saved it from the robbers Nothing was known here of the affair until past midnight when a telegram tele-gram was received from Pantano a break man having walked back eight miles to that place A special was sent down and the train brought in at six this morning None of the passengers were molested Some of the passengers knew nothing of the trouble until after the arrival here Under Sheriff Shobell was soon at the scene of the trouble but could discover nothing that would lead to the identity of the robbers Ton trailers under a deputy sheriff and W F Shaw have left for the scene of the trouble Tho robbers are believed to be discharged railroad em ployes Although they compelled Engineer Harper to show them how to handle the engine en-gine it is believed by their actions in handling hand-ling the train that they were perfectly familiar fa-miliar with such work Immediately upon the receipt of the news at the office of the Southern Pacific Company Com-pany in this city A N Towne general manager issued the following circular with orders to the companys agents to post it in a conspicuous place The mail and express cars on our westbound west-bound express train when at a point seventeen seven-teen miles east of Tucson A T at 10 oclock last night were stopped and robbed by four or five men The Southern Pacific Company hereby offer a reward of 1000 each for the arrest and conviction of the robbers which is in addition to a like reward re-ward offered by Wells Fargo 1 Companys express In addition to this we understand the United States Postoffice Department has a standing reward of 200 each for the arrest and conviction of persons engaged in robbing the mails I Additional facts were received concerning the robbery in dispatches to Wells Fargo k Co These were that the train was held up three miles east of Papago in a cut The mail was robbed as well as the express No one was injured by shooting When the < news was carried back to Pantano concerning concern-ing the robbery United States Marshal Mead and a deputy and two deputy sheriffs and two others started after the train The locomotive and cars were found at the whistling whis-tling post about a mile west of Papago The engine was dead The headlight was put out and the air brakes on There was no trace of the robbers Marshal Mead sent for the troops to Fort Lowell and thirtyfive soldiers left there at 5 oclock this morning to scour the country Officer Harris was expected to arrive soon and another party with Indian trailers was expected ex-pected to arrive from Yuma to hunt the rob oem Colonel Wilder superintendent of the Mail Service said this afternoon that he had just received a dispatch from True the mail agent on the route between Los Angeles An-geles and Deming concerning the robbery of the mail and express The agents were given just one and onehalf minutes to get out under threats of being blown up with a hundred pounds of dynamite and they at once got out The express messenger saved 5000 from the robbers by hastily hiding it The extent of the mail robbery Colonel Wilder did not know Mr True had telegraphed tele-graphed that he would send particulars from Los Angeles The express was running run-ning light on this trip With the reward offered by the railroad company Wells Fargo t fc Co and the standing offer of the Postoffice Department it will profit whoever who-ever may be the capturer of the robbers I 2200 for each capture |