The Express Gazette Volume 18 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...of the agent, who was standing at the window, was struck in the breast, and is in a critical condition. There is no clue to the burglars. The men who held up and robbed the 'Frisco train at Mound Valley, Kan., have been captured. Their names are George and Charles McCune, Charles Bahut, and W. W. Curry. The capture was made at Arkansas City, Kan., where the outlaws had joined the multitude of boomers who swarm about that city, waiting for the opening of the Cherokee strip. One of the bandits has made a confession of the robbery, and has admitted that he fired the shot which killed Messenger Chapman. The men belong to the class known as fakirs at racing-grounds and county fairs. Robert Smith, a driver for Wells, Fargo & Co. at Huntington, Ind., was attacked by two men, August 17th, just as he was climbing into the wagon with a package containing a large amount of money received by the through express at the depot. He fired three shots at the men. One of the men then knocked him senseless, but both men fled leaving the money behind. Five suspected men were arrested, but Smith could not identify any of them as being the assailants.. He is seriously injured. George Weisenberger, a messenger for the Adams Express on the O. & M. R. R., has lost several fingers from his right hand in a rather peculiar manner. He had opened the big safe in the express car to place a package in it. The train was whirling along at a rapid rate, and while flying around a sharp curve the heavy iron safe door flew, shut, closing on the messenger's hand and mashing his fingers so severely that it became necessary to amputate three of them. The following statement is going the rounds of the press. Of course there isn't a word of truth in it: "In a printed card of regulations ...