People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1895 — ROBBED FREIGHTCARS. [ARTICLE]

ROBBED FREIGHTCARS.

Two Members of * Daring Gang Ron to Earth at Spokane. Spokane, Wash., June 26.—The authorities here have arrested two of the most daring car thieves operating in the west. Their plan was to spot a freight car they desired to pillage, spring the door at a station and board the train, and when it was In motion throw oft what they wanted. When the train slowed up they would drop off and go back and pick up their plunder. A short time ago two men went into a second-hand store here and offered to dispose of a lot of goods they had concealed a few miles east of Spokane, on the line of the Northern Pacific. The second-hand dealer communicated with Chief of Police Mertz, and was directed to go ahead and buy the goods. Last night the thieves wept to the place with a wagon and secured >3OO worth of dry goods, boots and shoes and started back to town. Officers were stationed on the road and placed them under arrest. The thieves have also been operating on the Great Northern. It Is thought they are a part of an organized band, as a telegram found on them bore the information that a car loaded with silks was coming.