Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1874 — The Late Express Robbery in Missouri. [ARTICLE]

The Late Express Robbery in Missouri.

Frank B. Webster, the express messenger of the train on the Kansas Pacific Road which was recently stopped at Muncie, Mo., and the express safe robbed, has made the following statement to a reporter of the Kansas City Times : “ About 3:45 this afternoon, as the train drew up at Muncie, I heard a loud hallooing outside, and, not suspecting Anything wrong, walked up to a small window which is between the mail-room and the express-room. A revolver was thrust under my nose, and I saw’ a large man in dark clothes, with a cloth tied over his face, completely concealing his features, standing in the mail-room. He ordered me to come out, threatening to shoot if I refused to obey. I immediately crawled through into the mail-room and from thence to the ground. On getting outside another man approached me and told me to hold up my hands. I did so, and while looking around three other men, making five, and all of them masked and heavily armed. In a moment they ordered me to go back into the car, which I did*, both of them following. Once inside one placed a revolver to my head while the other leveled a Henry rifle on the other side, and I was told to unlock the safe. I readily obeyed, and at their order handed out the contents. One of them took a mailbag, and as I handed out the packages the other threw them into the bag. I took out SIB,OOO in currency, $5,000 in gold, and all the packages of money in the safe. They said they did not want a silver brick which was there, and also gave me back my watch, saying they did not want my personal property. After having got all there was in the safe without touching anything else they ordered me to get out on the ground. While one guarded me, the other took the money and got on his horse. The other left me, and with the others rode away to the north, going over a hill,” - —Removal of Dry Putty —According to an English journal the tiifficulty of removing hard putty from window-sash can be obviated with great readiness by simply applying a piece of heated metal, such as a soldering-iron or other similar implement. When heated (but not redhot) the iron is to be passed slowly over the putty, thereby rendering the latter so soft that it will part from the wood without any trouble. .—The Boston Transcript well says that churches should be thoroughly ventilated every Friday. It is trying to heat dead air that plays the mischief with church wanning.