OUTRAGE BY BANDITS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 43, 11 July 1914, Page 7

OUTRAGE BY BANDITS.

TKLEi.iISAPII.rST MEHDERI'I). | AX HEROIC DEED. Early on the. morning uf May 21, a pang of masked bandits shot anil killed frank 1 totalliny, a young ticket agent and night telegrapher at ilic little railstation at Tappan. New York State, after lie liad lirk-flv (lashed (lie alarm in tlie face of levelled revolvers over the telegraph wires. As a result of llotalling's heroic deed, the robbers only obtained <X:i from the tickct-olljcti till, ami were prevented from lireakinj: oncn t'he sale. wli'u-Ji .ordained CIWI in eli-li mid much valuable iewelhrv. At J a.m. ~„ the' morning ~!' the ~t-tark. tark. the telegraph operator at llnverstraw. a ii'dL'lilioring village, with whomi Hotalling liad n' exchanging p;ea<;ritries to while awav 11m time. wa< -tartl od'fo hear the following nio-a-e r ,„ RI clicking oIT Ids in-lnimeiit: "'i'iiere mv robbers trying to get into the Nation, wire for help;' Ilavei'slraw got no response to frantic: ipieries .or "Itopeat. i'fpent! Arc vo'i joking':" and the operator there iniquarters. l-ive minute.-. Liler lloialling again broke ill Willi "Tiiev are uiuinLr to slui.it.. send help. 1,1 -" ilere ' the' message . aktipth" -eeased. and it was presumed 1 .[(.tailing was -hot down at hi- kev a I that point. The village- at.Tappan.aroused by tiv: -hols, ran to tlie station iu time to see sevei'al men running down the railway track, pnrsiieil by wounded, Hotalling. Muhleiilv they saw flio robbers turn and fire a volley.' and [Totalling' toppled over with three millet- in his brainSeveral .-duds wove lired at, the Hoeing bandits, who made cood their escape. Evaminafi .[ ilotal'lina's hodv disclosed that 'lie had been -hot in the back, the bullet piercing hi- lungs. In the office of the lailwa.y station, the bloodstains found on the telegraph key and till, and tlii! wild disorder of the place gave mute evidence of the terrilic light [totalling had made, even in his wounded condition, to detain the murderers mail help arrived. - ■*"^