A Train Robber.

Manawatu Herald, 30 April 1892, Page 3

A Train Robber.

A correspondent of an English paper supplies the following : — I have been waiting for my American mail that I might read the full particulars of the modern brigand who tried to rob the express train running between York and Buffalo. The fitory has hot been exaggerated ; tin the contrary, it is far more startling and romantic than the cable reports. While the train was at full speed Mclnnery, the guard of the money car, was suddenly confronted by a stranger wearing a red flannel mask, Mclnnery reached for the signal cord, and a bullet at once struck his hand as he touched it. The two men fought, M clnnery getting the worst of it. He had, however, succeeded in signalling. The train stopped, and the robber disappeared. At the Lyons Station a somewhat elegantlooking young man, with gold rimmed eye- glasses and a satchel, was seen in the crowd. A train-man had seen him at Syracuse. He was suddenly suspected. He could only have got into the crowd on the platform as a traveller by the express. A rush was made for him. He drew two revolvers, backed to the railway track, uncoupled a locomotive, drove off the firemen with his weapons, pulled the f steam throttle open, and then began one of the most extraordinary races on record. He was pursued by an-, other locomotive. When almost overtaken he reversed his engine and passed his pursuers, firing at them as he ran by ; three times the engines actually crossed each other. At Blue Cut he pulled up, compelled a switchman to turn the locomotive upon the pursuing track, and a I pistol at the head of a farmer won | him a horse and buggy. Four miles I at high speed brought him to a place | where he repeated his operation and ! got a fresh horse. At last, the road | being heavy and a posse of sheriff's men going after him, he was outnumbered and caught. He is only 25, good-looking, evidently. " quite a gentleman ;' his belt was full of ammunition, his satchel packed with the finest of burglarons\tools. He carried three revolvers, ffe—sa-ys' his name is Cross, of New Mexico, and hopes Mclnnery, who is " true grit," will recover. There is every reason to believe he will. Cross is no other than Oliver Curtis Perry, who " was wanted " for a successful attack on the guard of the money van of the express, near Utica, laist year. English people wonder how a man could turn up in a guard's van while a train was going at full speed hot quite understanding that' any one can walk through ail American train from one end to the other. This cable story of the latest railwayadventure was doubted in London, > but it is not a reporter's, cana-rd, sand ' it is only one of the many ' similar attempts, with this > difference — that . the majority of .them .'have been' successful. in 1 ;