Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1910 — PACIFIC TRAIN HELD UP [ARTICLE]

PACIFIC TRAIN HELD UP

Crime Committee By Two Men Near Phoenix, Ariz. Sheriff on Way to Penitentiary Is Relieved of His Guns and Passengers’ Valuables Taken. Phoenix. Ariz,,- May 12. —All passengers to the number of seenteem together with the conductor and brakeman on a Southern Pacific train which left Maricopa for the thirty mile run to Phoenix, were held up here by two men who boarded the train with the passengers at Maricopa. They went first to the smoking car, where one robber stood in the door and covered the passengers while the other went through the car. A deputy sheriff from Globe, conveying two prisoners to the penitentiary, had his gun taken and all the guns of the other passengers were taken. The robbers then went to the rear coach containing mostly women and took all their money. The robbers were young men, apparently cowboys. They did not molest the express. The sheriff from Tucson was in Phoenix and he, with the sheriff from Phoenix, and a large posse with horses left Phoenix on a special train for the scene of the robbery, which is on als Indian reservation