Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1894 — BOLD ROBBERY, [ARTICLE]

BOLD ROBBERY,

More Than SIOO,OOO Secured by the Bandits. Texas & Pacific Train Held Up With Neatness and Dispatch. An express train on the Texas & Pacific was held up 'seven miles west of Fort Worth, Tex., Thursday .evening ats;3O by three masked men. In one respect the robbery was remarkable and sets a precedent. The iron safe of tho messenger was thrown from the car and carried off. It is learned from anthorittiavej ourcesithat upward of >IOO,OOO was secured. The train stopped at the water-tank; one man boarded it and covered tho engineer and fireman while the other two looted the express car. Division Superintendent J. B. Paul was son the train. It arrived al Ft. Worth only fifteen minutes late. J. M. Berry, of Dallas, was a passenger on the train. ‘•There is not much of a story to tell,” he said. “The whole procedure did not .occupy twelve minutes. A quarter of a mile east of Benbrook three masked men held up the train. I don't know how they did it. The first thing I knew the engineer threw the air brake. After the train stopped I heard a shot; about five mTnutcs later I Keanff another shot. I heard that the robbert broke into the express car, but nothing could be learned from the officials as to the extent of tho robbery. The express messenger got off at Ft. Worth and lie would give no information, The robbery was so quietly conducted that tho passengers were not badly awed.”