EXPRESS TRAIN HELD UP.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 71, 23 March 1912, Page 14

EXPRESS TRAIN HELD UP.

» . MASKED ROBBERS MAKE A BIG HAUL. A daring hold up of the Rock Island railway "flyer" was made early last month, near Hurlburt, Arkansas, by soven masked robbers, who looted the mail car, und gob away with a large sum of money. The men boarded the train at Memphis, Tennessee, aud when a, short distance from the Mississippi River, in the Stato of Arkansas, they began operations. Next to the engine tender wa6 an ordinary baggage car, and in tho forward end of this tho men had concealed themselves just as the train pulled out of Memphis. When uear Jrlurlburt a couple of the robboifa clambered across tho tender, and with their revolvers threatened the driver and his btaker, compelled the former to stop the train. While one of the men watched over the <:ngine hands, the rest intimidated tho train crew und buch pasbengcrb as showed themselves. They then destroyed the safe of tho 'Wells Fargo Company in the mail our, which was known to contain a large sum of money, consigned to the banks in Oklahoma City. Thk they completely looted, and also stole tweuty pouches with registered mail j«tter», und made off safely after ooinpeHiug the engine driver to continue his jourupy.. ' It in not stated what amount of money was taken, but the sum is knpwn to be considerably over £4000, in udditiou to the registered letter*.. It is Imrd to bo laughed out of one's suruuiuo {remarks v Chromolo writer). That 'a what occurred to an inoffensive gentleman, Charles Suinbbury Pickwick, Esq., who, after the publication of Div'kons's_ famous novel, felt coiibtraiuod to iidvcrtito in The Times informing tho ; -world thu.t, t owiug to its<hn\u>g been brought -info ridicule und nmdi- a by- , word by tho novelist, ho intended to abaiukm his nutno for ever. This was the moro turd in his oub*\ bixuute he proudly triced hit) liunio to a knightly ajriifiu—fi'oni "Piu,UM-vit.u"— "npui; Uftt. '