OUTLAWS FOILED. An Express messenger Bafiles a Gang of Train-Robbers.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 242, 18 February 1888, Page 7 (Supplement)

OUTLAWS FOILED. An Express messenger Bafiles a Gang of Train-Robbers.

Kansas City, December 24. — A special to fcho " Times'' fvom Atokas, Indian Territory, says that a bold attempt at train-rob-bery occurred near that place at a late hour last nighfc. As the south-bound Missouri, Kansas and Texas passenger train was about to leave, two men board od the tvvn and compelled the engineer to run to a bridge a shorfa distance from the station. Upon arriving there, the train was stopped. At this point live more men joined the robbers, who had first got on the train. All were armed with Winchesters and revolvers. The express messenger, John Grimshaw, saw them coming. He locked the door, and with the assistance of the baggagemaster, who happened to be in the car at the time, barricaded the doors and awaited developments. The robbers, thus baffled at the outset, forced the engineer to get chisels and ' other tools and attempted to break open the doors. All assaults on them were vain, however, and the robbers fired several shots through the car and' then went to the mail, car, which was also bolted. They contented themselves, with firing through I it several times and thfin went back to the Pullman car and gave it a similar salute without attomptingto getin it. They finally | returned to the 1 express car, whero Grirashaw and the, baggage master still held the fort, and threatened to fire. This failed to frighten the stiirdy messenger, and after liaving detained the train thirty minutes without gettiiig a cent, the' robbers rather 'sheepishly rode away. 'No one was hurt. Great creclitis given W Qrimshaw for his bravery. ' - - -> l »<» < ■'