Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1879 — Mexican Brigands. [ARTICLE]

Mexican Brigands.

A sum of $140,000, consisting of remittances to Europe from merchants in Mexico, has been captured by fifteen brigands on the railroad between Puebla and Vera Cruz. About a dozen brigands took third-class tickets, seated themselves in a carriage next the baggage car, and about half an hour after starting severed all the cars behind them. Leaving these on the track, they forced the engineer to continue at full speed up to a point where twenty-five armed men on horseback ordered a halt, whereupon the whole party carried off the money on mules, killing the conductor and seriously wounding an inspector Of the line.