. Illustrated lives and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, and the Younger Brothers : the noted Western outlaws. aroused passengers had notime to inquire the cause of the sudden knew full soon. The presence of armed men—strange, weird, desperate—appearing on the plat-forms of the coaches informed them concernins: thesituation. The train passed into the hands of band-its. The passengers Avere ordered in a peremptorymanner to keep still. The command was accompa-nied by dreadful threats of instant annihilation onthe least evidence of disobedience. Surprised andxmnerved by the sudd
. Illustrated lives and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, and the Younger Brothers : the noted Western outlaws. aroused passengers had notime to inquire the cause of the sudden knew full soon. The presence of armed men—strange, weird, desperate—appearing on the plat-forms of the coaches informed them concernins: thesituation. The train passed into the hands of band-its. The passengers Avere ordered in a peremptorymanner to keep still. The command was accompa-nied by dreadful threats of instant annihilation onthe least evidence of disobedience. Surprised andxmnerved by the suddenness of the attack, the 10 158 FRANK AND JESSE JAMES. passengers obej^ed. Then three of the band proceededthrough the train and commanded the passengers tosurrender up their money and their jewehy. Theymade a searching examination of each person in thecars. It is understood that several thousand dollarswere obtained in this way. The express and mail carwere searched and rifled. The spoils of the exami-nation were put into a sack, and the robbers soughttheir horses, and mounting, speedily galloped Scene of the Chicago, Rock Island and PacificR. R. Robbery. Of course the intelligence of such an occurrencewas telegraphed far and wide. A most determinedpursuit of the robbers was at once organized and seton foot. The sheriff of the county in which therobbery was committed summoned a large posse ofmen and started in pursuit. His theory was thatthey were Missouri outlaws. He got on the trail of therobbers, and tracked them through western Missourias far as St. Clair county. Here he lost their trail, A RAILWAY TRAlJf ROBBED IN IOWA. 159 and efforts to find the outlaws proved sheriff finally gave up the chase and returnedhome. It is proper to add that friends of Cole Youngerdenied that he could possibly have had anything todo with this robbery. They assert that he was at theMonegaw hotel, St. Clair, on Sunday morning, the20th of July, and therefore could not
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