Shooting a train Robber

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 63, 15 November 1892, Page 4

Shooting a train Robber

According to a, Dalziel telegram from New Orleans, Eugene Bunch, the notorious train robber and outlaw, who has made so many raids upon the express cars of the southern railways, met his death on August 22nd, at the hands oi a posse oi deputy-sheriffs. The sheriff, with an armed band of deputies, has for some time been in search of Bunch and his gang, who were finally located by a railway detective named Jackson on Honey Island, an isolated patch ot land surrounded by swamps on the dividing line between Louisiana and , Mississippi, which has for many years been a hiding-place for outlaws of every description. The sheriff, on the receipt of this news, set out for Honey Island,, and, upon making enquiries at a farmhouse, learned that Bunch had been there with some of his gang, and obtained food irom the farmer by threatening his life. The I sheriff's party then went cautiously forward for halt a mile for what is known as the Old Sterling Place. They soon came upon Bunch, who was walking along the bank of a creek, carrying a Winchester rifle in one hand and a pail in the other. He was quite unaware of the presence of his pursuers, and bent over to dip .up, some water y from the creek. The sheriff called upon him to surrender, but at the first sound Bunch wheeled and fired as Detective Jackson. The bullet flew wide of its mark,, and before the train robber ' cbttld fire; again he dropped dead from a volley fired by the sheriff's party. As he fell his rifle Went off, the bullet pissing dangerously near the' sheriff. | There was a hut a short distance away, and in full view of the party, i As Bunch tell a man came running ! out of the door carrying a rifle. He was covered by all the rifles of the party, and dropped his gun to avoid Bunch's fate. He was j then seized and identified as "' Colonel" Hopgood, another famous outlaw and train robber, who was known to bo acting as Bunch's lieutenant.

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