Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1920 — STEAL A TRAIN IN CHICAGO [ARTICLE]

STEAL A TRAIN IN CHICAGO

New Record for Holdups When Entire Freight Train Is Seized. Chicago, Sept. 3.—A gaug of men held up the crew of a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul freight train at Western avenue and the St. Paul tracks. overpowering them. took charge of the train, and compelled the engineer .to continue to run the locomotive at high speed. They threw the rest of the crew off the train. Reports of the stolen train were flashed by telephone operators of the railroad to all police stations on the Northwest side. It was reported the train “bandits” were “on their way” to Savanna, 111., where the St. Paul line crosses the Mississippi into lowa.