TRAIN ROBBERY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1419, 20 April 1912, Page 7

TRAIN ROBBERY.

HOW A MESSENGER KILLED TWO BANDITS. An express messenger, David A. Trousdale, balked the robbery of a. Southern Pacific passenger train near Sanderson, Texas, U.S., on March 13, when ho trapped two highwaymen who had held up the train, and killed both of them. Tho robbers boarded the train, No. 9, west-bound, a few miles east of Sanderson. Tho mail and express ears and tho locomotive were detached from tho passenger coaches, and the engineer, under cover of the robbers' guns, was compelled to run them ahead of the two or three coaches forming the remainder of tho train. Ono of Hie robbers took tho express messenger, Trousdale, back to tho coaches, and kept him under guard, while the other robber covered the crew in thfi cars ahead, and started to riflo the safe and express boxes. Trousdale is said to have employed the. old ruse of signalling to an imaginary person back of his captor. When tho robber turned, Trousdale grasped a mal-' let, and before tho highwayman could shoot, struck him on the head and killed him. Then, arming himself wiEli the dead robber's gun, Trousdale waited for the return of the other bandit. After ho had rifled the express boxes the second man returned to the coaches. Stepping from cover, Trousdalo shot and killed him. All of the stolen property was recovered, and tho train proceeded. Trousdale is a young man, recently promoted to the express run. Ho lives in S.in Francisco.

The bodies of the robbers were taken to Sanderson. They are unidentified.