Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1885 — C[?]E TRAIN ROBBER'S EXPLOIT. [ARTICLE]

C[?]E TRAIN ROBBER'S EXPLOIT.

Ex-Governor Baker died at his home in Indianapolis last Tuesday. In his it:loit of the Democratic me: tinx the demented “kicl’ alludes - tv us as “our “lamented” bioiher Me Ewen.” Well, we prote: t against his elnim. * . —. ... ...

V. • lx..res n r.iglit Express, Snoo-ts j v.o Jien, and Escapes with Much Booty. ( hie ago News: The night expre. s coming north on the Louisville. New Albany A Chicago railway had just left the water-tank near Harrodsburg, Ind., at 11 o’clock, Wednesday night, when a m ir. armed with a hickory club en t*r >d the baggage-car. Messenger Ge >rge K. Davis and Baggagem inter Peter Weber were lying on the benches. Both were dozing. Tint stranger sprang on Davis and boat him over the head with the olu ’goon, and when Weber awoke I* oceived the same treatment.— Da • is reached for his revolver, but lax stranger wrenched it from his grasp and discharged it. The ball entf red the side of the messenger’s head. Turning his attention to the prostrate baggagemaster, the daring robber covered him with the revolver and ordered him to take the keys from the pockets of the on con ;cious messenger and to open the safe. The safe being opened the robber rifled it with his lef band while with his right he still cove.. 1 the baggagemaster with t lie revolver. Having secured all the vn’rrble money packages the robber tin aod apd deliberately shot "W eb t. k: ball entered the jawbone. Pnlk.jg the bell-cord the jobber, laden with booty, jumped from the train as sor-n as its speed was slackened. MV! er, covered o'ith blood, stagier; d into the *• noking-car and g-.vc ihe alarm. When the train i< pped search /as made for the robber, but he aad disappeared in J be darkness. The place where he I.n’t the train 5 • a lonely defile su rounded by

.oods, and a short distance from Bloomington, Ind. Tlie wounded .men were lett at Bloomington. In the morning Weber, whose wounds axe serious but not fatal, was sent •to his home at Louisvi le. Davis was still unconscious, and it was deemed best not to move him. The train kept on its way and armed at the Polk stieet depot in this city at 8 o’clock yesterday m ming. It consisted of the baggage car, two coaches, and a sleeper. The interior of the baggage Car was splashed with blood. The blood-stained cudgel used by the robber lay in one corner. It was a green hickory sapling three feet long and three inches in diameter. Conductor J. C. Chambers said that he knew nothing about the robbery until after the train was stopped, when he went forward to the baggage-car, and found the messenger and baggagemaster both unconscious, each having been shot

in the head. When the train reached Bloomington a posse vvas organ ized and sent back to search for Ihe robber. (Lying to tne darkness they returned without effecting his capture. Conductor Chambers said he had received a dis patch at Hammond from Bloom_ ington sa in g that Davis was dead-

O’ily's].so was found remaining in the s fe. Chambers d*d not know how much it contained. He did n ot think there was over $5,000 in it at the time of the robbery. Conductor Chambers and the brakeman went to the American express office early in the morning. Xfe*t carried the blood-stained club

with them, and told the story of the robbery to the president and the superintendent. O. W. Barrett, the general agent, said the sum obtained b - the robber could not be over £5,000. Superintendent Charles Fargo received a dispatch at 1 o’s lock yesterday afternoon saying that Davis was still alive, but unconscious.— Both men in the baggage-car had a good look at the robber’s face> Manager Fargo said, and the company was confident that he would be captured. All of the station agents along the line were telegraphed to be on the lookout, and the marshal of Bloomington weiD out with a posse looking for the robber.

Opening Display!— To-day and to-morrow—Hats and Goods at the New- Millinery Store of Mrs- Wilson. A cordial invitation is extended to the ladies of Rensselaer and vicinity to call and see latest styles. Mrs. W. has secured the services of Miss Alice Stephens, one of the best and most artistic trimmers in Indianapolis, and is confident she can give satisfaction.

The following named gentlemen are the officers elect of the Jasper County Agricultural Society, to serve the ensuing year: President—David b. Y vmaa. Yice President—Berry Parish Secretary—Ezra C. Nowels. Treasurer—C. C. Starr. Superintendent—H. I. Adame. Marshal —James Welsh. The date fixed for holding the Fair, is September Bth, 9th, 10th and 11th, 1885. M - reus Harris, after a protracted illness, died at the residence of his stepfather, James T. Randle, in Rensselaer, Wednesday morning, in his 22d year. Funeral services were conducted, by Rev. T. C. Webster, Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock.