People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — HELD UP THE TOWN. [ARTICLE]

HELD UP THE TOWN.

Bold Work of Three Desperadoes at Adair Station, I. T. Parsons, Kan., Feb. 25.—Wednesday night just after Missouri, Kansas & Texas passenger train No. 2 pulled out of Adair Station, I. T. t three desperadoes confronted the agent and robbed him of $8,700. Eighteen citizens who appeared on the seene were made to hold up their hands and were marched at the point of the bandits’ guns to one of the principal stores in 'the town, which was rubbed of S3OO. The robbers then mar died the men to the stockyards, where their horses were hitched. They then mounted agd disappeared.