DARING TRAIN ROBBERY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 33, 8 February 1913, Page 10

DARING TRAIN ROBBERY

■■■■ "On SAFE BLOWN OPEN WITH DYNAMITE. The "Alton Limited," the most luxurious train on the Chicago and Alton Railway, was "held up" and robbed, in the most daring manner, shortly after midnight on 24th December, while on its way to St. "Louis. Flying through the darkness at 60 miles an hour, the ! train was checked by lantern signals, and four masked men covered the en | gine-drivef and guard with revolvers, j The bandits went about their business j with amazing' coolness and effrontery, for, evidently considering it too risky and tedious to attempt to rob the pasfeengers, they c&nipGlled the trainmen to , detach the express car containing mails, jewellery, and specie to the Value of £20,000. 'Then, ordering the engine- j driver to continue his journey, they proceeded to loot the car at their leisure. , One safe was blown open with a dyna-j mite cartridge, and its contents, £10,000' in cash and jewellery, the latter mostly Christmas presents, were taken. The men were turning their' attention to the second safe when they were disturbed by the arrival of a sheriff's posse, whieb, learning of the outrage from the "Limited*s" trainmen, hastily boarded a hahd car and made for the scene. One of the bandits was on the, look-out,_ however, and v/arned his comrades in time to enable them to escape.