Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1894 — GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY. [ARTICLE]

GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY.

1 AtTo’clock, Friday night, a train on the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac road was “held up” by robbers near Quantico, Va. Seven men were in the gang. The express car was dynamited. It is supposed that the bandits secured between 6150,000 and 6-03,000. The robbers all escaped, and there is no clue to their identity. “Blinkens has given up calling on MisisGoldcoin. Did her father object'to his suit?” “No; it was the mastiff that ruined it.”