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Three robbers boarded a south-bound (tlfi6(• passenger train on the Fort Worth and pDenver Railroad at Bellevue, Texas, and !robbed the passengers of eight watches and j b$104 in money. A Fort Worth telegramfurnishes the following particulars of thebold robbery:As the train drew up at Bellevue Station, Tex., three unmasked robbers took possession of it. One of them with a drawn pistol ordered . Engineer Ayers and his fireman, and O. G. Mil-I ler, another engineer who was riding in the cab,| to alight, which they did. He then marched them some thirty feet from the train aud went j through them, taking all the valuables they hod. While this was going on the other two men went through the train. One of the passengers in the rear cur was looking out of the window and saw the operation with the trainmou. Divining the situation he went into the forward cars, notified the other passengers of what was going on, and told them to secrete their money. This they did in various ways, giving most of it and their diamonds to several ladies aboard. Miss Kate Haas of Fort Worth took charge of ¥3,000 and. other valuables. Mrs. Chambers of Potsdam,N. Y., received $5,000 and some diamonds, and Mrs. Wittick of Carthage, Mo., took her husband’s gold watch und several hundred dollars.Mrs. Wittick was greatly incensed at the proceedings, and boldly stood up in the car and asked if forty men were going to tamely submit to such an outrage at the hands of two highwaymen. About $12,000 in money and €4,000 worth of diamonds itttd other valuables were loft by the robbers in their haste to get through the train, and because they did not search the women. They were evidently novices in the business and went away with Ithe paltry sum of £105, three gold watches, ten •f si Ivor watches, five revolvers, and one gold ring.The robbers left the train at the rear end of the sleeper, mounted horses standing near by, and rode rapidly away.w flInrabicl tlbiel\\as$!(1lt;65atinthb£alt;in
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Monroeville Weekly Breeze
Monroeville, Indiana, US
Thu, Dec 16, 1886
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