Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1882 — BOLD BANDITS. [ARTICLE]

BOLD BANDITS.

A Train on the TeiM and PacMlc Hobbed—Train Robben Foiled on the Santa Fe Road. An enat-bonnd passenger train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road was ditched near Rineon, N. M., and five heavily-armed men attempted to rob the express, but got into the baggage instead of the express car. and before they could rectify their mistake and get into the right car the train men and passengers appeared in such numbers that the robbers fled. The engine and baggage and express cars were thrown from the track. The fireman was killed, and the engineer and Wells, Fargo & Co.’s messenger badly wounded. The express is supposed to nave had $200,000 in silver from the Arizona mines, bound for New York, and it is thought the would-be robbers were informed of the fact by telegraph, and that they belofig to the band of desperadoes which has been committing all kinds of depredations in New Mexico and Arizona for mon! bs past. At Ranger Station, on the Texas and Pacific road, five unmasked robbers, armed to the teeth, sprang upon a train which had slowed un. The officers were oorraled alongside the engine and held captive while the leader of the gang leaped into tho express car and forced the messenger to give up his treasure. Meantime a colored porter had warned three Texas rangers in a passenger coach, and when they appeared a hot fight took place, the express car being riddled with bullets. The robbers did not have time to rob the passengers or rifle the mails. They retired in single file, making the train-men follow them for half an hour, the rangers being in the rear. The express messenger states that less than SSOO was secured, but it is believed that the plunder was quite heavy. _____ It is an uncommon thing in Lapland for a person to have two Christi in names. One is all they can live under. Thirteen hundred year? ago there were but pine books in tail England.