Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — A Thriving Industry. [ARTICLE]

A Thriving Industry.

Ever 'since tho James boys inaugurated express robbing as a. mode of profitable employment tho life of tho express messenger has boon at stake. The work of the llqno gang in Indiana, the Star gang in Indian Territory and Toxas, tho astonishing pursuit led by Evans and Sontag, both in California and other States, has merely added to tho general risk that has constantly hovored over these mon. Tho danger cannot be modified or explained away to a minimum. When it is seen, as has often been illustrated, that these desperadoes traverse whole States and even tho entire Union to execute their during work, tho danger becomes apparent. Evans and Sontag traveled from California to Wisconsin to hold up tho American Express Company’s car at some unexpected moment and out of the way place. It has since been learned that they traveled elsewhere and further to accomplish thoir purpose. Tho James gang did likewise and all tho Southwest know them from St. Louis to Brownville and from tho mountains of Tonnesse west to tho cogst. It stands to reason, then, that the messenger in Florida or Oregon, in Maine or Old Mexico, tending the wealth of some of these great corporations is as liable to receive a visit from outlaws who have traveled from afar to their shadowy night work.