Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1920 — MAN IS TIED TO RAIL BY THUGS [ARTICLE]

MAN IS TIED TO RAIL BY THUGS

Missourian Robbed by Two Holdup Men and Then Put in Path of Train. ♦ - . LOSES ARM AND ONE EEG Outlaws Bind Victim With Barbed Wire and Leave Him to His Fate — Expected to Get Money From Sale of Two Autos. Excelsion Springs, Mo., June 18. — George Underwood of Carrollton, Mo., was forced by two men to enter a motor car here at night, was taken to a spot near the Wabash tracks half a mile from Excelsior Springs, robbed of S7O and was gagged and bound to the rails with barbed wire. A Wabash passenger train passing half an hour later cut off his left foot and hand. Covered With Revolvers. According to Mr. Underwood, he had been in Kansas City and had stopped at Excelsior Springs en route back to Carrollton. He was waiting at the Wabash station when the two men approached him and With revolvers commanded him to enter* their motor car, he declared. After robbing him, he said, the pair placed him directly in the middle of the railway track and bound him there. In struggling, however, he managed to free his right foot and right hand and to maneuver his body to the outside of the rails, leaving only his left foot and hand across the rails. Underwood was found by a farmer living near by, who took him to his home and notified the authorities. No Trace of Robbers Found. A posse searched the locality where the robbery was said to have taken place, but could find no trace of the perpetrators. According to officers here, Mr. Underwood had sold two motor cars in Kansas' City and it is thought the robbers had knowledge of that fact and had expected him to have the money from the sale with him.