JUVENILE BANDITS.

Northern Advocate, 7 October 1913, Page 3

JUVENILE BANDITS.

EXPRESS TRAIN-HELD UP.

NEW YORK, Sept. 28

Two mere boys held up the Alabama Great Southern train near Cottondale, Virginia, yesterday.

The affair took place shortly after midnight, and the youthful desperadoes dynamited the express safe and rifled the mail car, getting off with booty estimated to be worth about £10,000.

After stopping the train at Bibbville siding by means of blocking up the danger signal, the young bandits advanced on to the track, and at the revolver's point compelled the trainmen and express messengers and six mail clerks to line up on the railway bank. They forced one of the crew to detach the engine and mail cars, after which they boarded the engine, and drove several miles down the track, where they completed their escapade. Then they threw open the throttle of the engine, "jumped to the ground, and escaped.

In the search for the miscreants a deputy-sheriff was shot and killed by a member of another posse, who mistook him for one of the robbers.

The released engine and cars ran through several towns before the steam exhausted itself.